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Kid_A

weirdadam wrote:

That was one of the better Sherlocke Holmes. Too bad the upcoming Holmes movie looks to follow the character's story about as well as the Mario Bros. movie represented the Mushroom Kingdom.

I haven't anything in a few months, sadly. Been too busy, something I'm not used to.

Yeah, what's a good Sherlocke Holmes book? I've been looking to get into that series.

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Trin

Sherlocke Holmes And The Case Of The Mysterious Typo.

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I finished re-reading Train Man (one of my favorite novels) and am now reading an obscure (i think) novel i picked up for a quarter at a thrift sotre called "After the First Death." So far only made it to Ch2...

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Adam

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.

Trin wrote:

Sherlocke Holmes And The Case Of The Mysterious Typo.

Haha, I don't know how that stray "e" got in there.

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Trin

weirdadam wrote:

Trin wrote:

Sherlocke Holmes And The Case Of The Mysterious Typo.

Haha, I don't know how that stray "e" got in there.

Well that's what you have to find out. The game is afoot Watson... this is Moriarty's doing, I'll wager.

Best part about the Sherlock Holmes books is they have words like 'machinations' in them. Good word.

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any fantasy fans around read L.B. Graham's Binding of the Blade five-book series? EXCELLENT stuff.

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I am currently reading Dune by Frank Herbert. Not sure what I'm gonna read next.

My favorite is probably Lord of the Rings.

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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?

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DF2506

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,

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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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My dad bought a lot of books earlier. Borders is having a closing down so he got like 12 (For around £16). I picked up The Man With The Golden Gun while there so I'm gonna get round to that soon.

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Kid_A

weirdadam wrote:

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.

Trin wrote:

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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I'm reading a collection of Gothic Tales by Elizabeth Gaskell, well suited to these winter evenings.

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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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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.

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