Truth be told I was ‘forced’ to read The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. I’ve seen the movies and the TV
shows. I’m a big fan of the BBC series but I was fearful that the book would be
dull and boring. It was written over a hundred years ago. I was very wrong.
Sherlock Holmes is as relevant today as he was a hundred years ago.
“It is pleasant to me to observe, Watson, that you have so
far grasped this truth that in these little records of ours cases which you
have been good enough to draw up, and, I am, bound to say, occasionally to
embellish, you have given prominence not so much to the many causes celebres
and sensational trails which I have figured, but rather to those incidents
which may been trivial in themselves, but which have given room for those
faculties of deduction and of logical synthesis which I have made my special
province.” – The Copper Beeches, The
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
I think the key to the continued success of Sherlock Holmes
are the trivial events. While originally published in the 1890’s, the story of
Sherlock Holmes is still relevant and interesting because Doyle primarily focuses
on people and their issues. No matter how much the world has changed, people and
the things that motivate them are still the same. I think that this is why
Sherlock can be in a movie set in the 1890’s or in a TV show set in present day
England because the key to Sherlock is not so much the setting but the people
that make up the plot.
The Adventures of
Sherlock Holmes was a truly an enjoyable read. I am going to add all the
Sherlock Holmes stories to my reading list.
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