Sherlock Holmes

ITT: any takes on any Holmes story.

I've recently started reading The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and I've fucking loved it. So let's have a Conan Doyle discussion.

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>bitch ass dude doesn't like to swear
prissy cunt eh?
Whatcha think of it, OP? I've considered diving into a collection I have, been burning out on translations and only want to read works natively written in english, and I wondered what the quality of Doyle's writing is. I imagine it's a pretty fun series, does it feel at all like you're eating McDonalds, or bingeing on pleb fare?

I actually don't think I've ever seen anything as pretentious as this.

It's very readable, if you understand what I'm going for. The short stories are all around 22 pages long and are wrapped up satisfactorily. Some of it actually looks quite deeply into characters, but it's implicit, which is definitely the sort of writing I'd prefer when reading short detective fiction. For example, there is very little interaction between Holmes and Irene Adler, but people have written whole articles on their relationship based on the scraps we have on each of them (Holmes only calling her 'THE woman', "She is on a much higher level than Your Highness", etc.) Basically I'd recommend starting with A Scandal in Bohemia and if you're unsure, move on to The Red-Headed League - both in Adventures.

Would you read them to your kids? Sherlock's a heroin addict for one, I loved them as a kid

That sort of shit goes straight over kids' heads, and by the time they're old enough to question it, they won't really care anyway. I'd say the best way to handle the "what's morphine?" sort of questions is the truth, but that's just the sort of parent I'd be. Perhaps that's wrong of me and maybe my tune will change if I become a parent, but yes, as it stands, I'd definitely read these to my kids. Short, to the point and usually very fun.

Coke

Both, actually:
>Which is it today, cocaine or morphine?

I still think The Hound of the Baskervilles is a masterpiece for it's genre.