Hound of the Baskervilles is the best starting place, the one Trin said. It's not my favorite, but it is generally considered to be the representative Sherlock Holmes. He was in four novellas and a lot of short stories. The entire collection is available in two paperbacks, neither of which is particularly expensive, so you might as well just get one of those to start. Hound of the Baskervilles is in Vol. 2. I prefer Vol. 1 myself. You can read either first. There is a chronology, I think, but it's not hugely important, not to most stories anyway. Most were written without any recurring characters except for Holmes and Watson.
Currently: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami (I am a little past the half way point and am completely enthralled with this book!)
Next: I'm not certain, but if I had to put my money on something, I would say... Hell's Angels by Hunter S. Thompson. It has been sitting on my night stand for about two years now giving me the stink eye. It's all like "you can't just read a third of me punk! How dare you!", so I kinda want to finish it ya'know?
Favorite: Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut, Flow My Tears the Policeman Said by Philip K. Dick, Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry, The Land of Laughs by Jonathan Carroll
Currently: Re-reading American Gods by Neil Gaiman. (also reading some of Fragile Things by Gaiman too)
Next: Watership Down. Read a preview over at Amazon and it was really interesting. I may try to pick this up soon and read it instead of re-reading American Gods.
Favorites: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, Speaker For the Dead by Orson Scott Card, Dark Tower: Wizard & Glass by Stephen King,
Oops ya i meant Cristo. My teacher was mean and made us read The Last of The Mohicans. It was good but kinda boring I'm currently reading The Book Thief and it's good
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Hound of the Baskervilles is the best starting place, the one Trin said. It's not my favorite, but it is generally considered to be the representative Sherlock Holmes. He was in four novellas and a lot of short stories. The entire collection is available in two paperbacks, neither of which is particularly expensive, so you might as well just get one of those to start. Hound of the Baskervilles is in Vol. 2. I prefer Vol. 1 myself. You can read either first. There is a chronology, I think, but it's not hugely important, not to most stories anyway. Most were written without any recurring characters except for Holmes and Watson.
Sherlocke Holmes And The Case Of The Mysterious Typo.
Haha, I don't know how that stray "e" got in there.
I just bought 'The Complete Sherlock Holmes Volume 1' from Barnes & Noble. Fantastic stuff, I've only read a few chapters of the first book and I'm already addicted. It's got all (well almost all) of the Sherlock Holmes stuff. Volume 2 has more. It's incredibly thick (about 700 pages) but it was only $7. Great deal, I say.
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Im not reading anything currently. But I just read Alas Babylon. Very good book. I love it. My fav must be either Alas Babylon or 1984. Im leaning to 1984 though.
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There can only be one, like in that foreign movie where there could only be one, and in the end there is only one dude left, because that was the point.
Any fellow Twihards around these parts? After waiting for more than a decade, Stephenie Meyer has finished Midnight Sun. It's the first Twilight book only from Edward's perspective rather than Bella's. Preorders should be up wherever you prefer to purchase your books from.
I've finished 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami, gloriously pretentious in his dreamy sci-fi way and back on form after a lot of his work for a while seemed to be going through the motions. I'd actually rank up there with Hard-Boiled Wonderland, Norwegian Wood and A Wild Sheep Chase as his best work.
I'm planning on reading either Set My Heart to Five by Simon Stephenson (mainly as Edgar Wright loves it and wants to turn it into a movie) or The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi.
@jump I liked IQ84 too - it’s definitely pretty enjoyable. The Wind-up Bird Chronicle, for my money, is Murakami at his best, though. It’s Norwegian Wood meets Twin Peaks.
I’m reading The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon. It’s great - think Raymond Chandler in an alternate post-WW2 history, with additional Jewish mysticism.
@Krull I know Michael Chabon is a respected author but I only know him from his short time writing comics, it's the same as Brad Meltzer. I really do need to check both Brad and Michael's books at some point.
Michael Chabon is brilliant. He did another called Gentlemen of the Road, a historical adventure about a couple of chancers. His original working title for it was Jews With Swords.
For Murakami, my hands-down favourite is The Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World. Absolutely fascinating book.
I've just finished Apocalypse Now Now by Charlie Human. Very funny and well done. A trawl through the mystical underbelly of Cape Town with a 16 year old would-be porn baron and a burned-out South African supernatural bounty hunter. The ending was a bit weak but the characters are cool and it's very inventive.
Anyone else here read "The Expanse" novels? I think they have become my favorite sci-fi novels ever and the 9th and final book is due out some time this year.
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