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I've been listening to Arthur Conan Doyle's Memories and Adventures, read by Simon Vance. I have mixed feelings about this. It's a pleasant listen, replete with incident, but a tad tedious for all that. I enjoy some of the literary anecdotes (Doyle and Oscar Wilde and a dinner with an American publisher, who commissioned The Sign of the Four and The Picture of Dorian Grey respectively); I am far less fond of the casual racism and jingoism, a reflection of the times. Some of it's purely headscratching, such as Doyle's involvement in spiritualism. The Holmes fan might be charmed, as he traces the sources of various stories. I'll be glad to be done, but not to the extent that I'll abandon it.
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