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The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne | 8 | 19.51% | |
The American Senator by Anthony Trollope | 12 | 29.27% | |
A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes | 6 | 14.63% | |
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton | 7 | 17.07% | |
The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles | 4 | 9.76% | |
A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | 19 | 46.34% | |
Animal Farm by George Orwell | 16 | 39.02% | |
The Good Soldier Svejk by Jaroslav Hasek | 6 | 14.63% | |
All Men Are Mortal by Simone de Beauvoir | 7 | 17.07% | |
The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper | 7 | 17.07% | |
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03-29-2013, 02:42 PM | #31 | |
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I love him in Sherlock. Steven Moffat who wrote the series said that he has simply elaborated on the Doyle stories--sometimes quite cleverly. Watson was shot in the shoulder by a Jezail bullet in A Study In Scarlet but in a later story Watson says he was shot in the leg. Moffat has his Watson wounded in the shoulder while in Afghanistan but suffering psychologically from a phantom pain in his leg {which is why he uses a cane). Moffat also admired the Rathbone/Bruce Holmes films from the late thirties and forties. And there are a number of cinematic nods to them as well. Personally I think the series is a tour de force but not for the purist--you have to go to Jeremy Brett if you want the stories very close to the Doyle originals. I wouldn't be without any of the three versions. I think there's room for them all. Last edited by fantasyfan; 03-29-2013 at 02:54 PM. |
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03-29-2013, 02:46 PM | #32 |
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03-29-2013, 02:49 PM | #33 |
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It looks like one of the two books I voted for is going to win. Very nice for a change.
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03-29-2013, 06:56 PM | #34 | |
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I have just been listening to Benedict Cumberbatch in the BBC Radio 4 version of Neverwhere, which I enjoyed very much. |
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03-29-2013, 07:28 PM | #35 |
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FYI, Sherlock is available for streaming for Amazon Prime Members. I highly recommend this modern adaptation like everyone else. I've already read A Study in Scarlet (and recommend it too), but I voted for it because I'd enjoy a discussion on it with others and wouldn't mind re-reading it.
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03-29-2013, 07:47 PM | #36 |
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Well, it's a dead heat at the moment!
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03-29-2013, 07:52 PM | #37 |
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Well I am not thrilled with the way the vote is going as I have already read Animal Farm and A Study in Scarlet several times. Of the two I would prefer A Study in Scarlet as it would lead to a entertaining discussion.
I am surprised that no one has yet mentioned the film The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, one of the oddest of the on screen adaptions of the Holmes character I have ever seen. Then I have not ever seen many of the others mentioned here. To me Basil Rathbone will always represent Holmes on film, even though everything else about those films was so lame; the bumbling fool of a Watson and the setting in the years (1939 to 1946) that the films were produced. Give me Victorian England Holmes every time. |
03-29-2013, 08:38 PM | #38 |
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I've mentioned elsewhere my love for that film. It goes completely outside the canon and turns the standard traditions on their heads, but in a way only a Holmes aficionado could truly appreciate. An extremely clever movie.
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03-29-2013, 08:54 PM | #39 |
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I remember reading the book long ago. I think it was by Nicholas Meyer.
Edit: And A Study in Scarlet has pulled ahead by one vote! |
03-29-2013, 11:33 PM | #40 |
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I've seen it many times. Mr. Williamson just passed on a yr or so back I believe. The book (and movie) do go outside canon but in a way (IMO) that makes sense. I mean no one really knows what happened while Holmes was gone.
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03-29-2013, 11:57 PM | #41 |
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Your thinking is similar to mine. I have read Animal Farm too, and I'm not sure I care to re-read it. Although I'd probably have a greater appreciation for it now than when I was forced to read it in school.
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03-30-2013, 08:58 AM | #42 |
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Freshman year of high school? That's when I read it.
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03-30-2013, 09:08 AM | #43 |
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Anyone interested in The Last of the Mohicans needs to read Mark Twain's essay, Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses. I read it at an impressionable age and it cured me of any desire to read his works.
Since people are revealing their voting strategy, I'll admit that I voted for my preference of the two front-runners and the books I really would like to read! Last edited by issybird; 03-30-2013 at 09:12 AM. |
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