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Certainly I can understand that some don't care that much for the Sherlock Holmes books, different strokes for different folks and all that. On the other hand, there is a reason that Sherlock Holmes is so popular and such a cultural icon. I have been a Holmes fan ever since I read the set way back when I was either in grade school or early high school (somewhere in the 10 to 14 year old range) and still read them on a regular basis.
I never saw any of the Holmes movies before reading the stories, so my view was not colored by the movies. Personally, I prefer the Brett series of movies to the Rathbone series, I thought the characters were closer to the book characters. I'm not a purest by any stretch (really liked the two new movies which is about as far from the book as you can get), but the bumbling Watson in the Rathbone movies got on my nerves. Seriously, Holmes never suffered fools gladly, it was unbelievable to me that Holmes would put up with such a buffoon.
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