I'm addicted to those damn things Though I was never so disappointed in my life as when The Hound of the Baskervilles turned out to have a perfectly "plausible" explanation.

I haven't read much Sherlock Holmes. But one of my favorites is The Adventures of the Speckled Band.

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If the egg's shell does not break, the chick will die without being born. We are the chick; the egg is the world. If the world's shell does not break, we will die without being born. Break the world's shell! For the sake of revolutionizing the world!

I've read most and hat one is brilliant. Really sinister!

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What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?
Only the monstrous anger of the guns.
Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattle

Wilfred Owen

I love Sherlock Holmes. Granted once you have read enough you start to realise that Conan Doyle repeats certain plots (for example, on several occasions, naive people are cunningly convinced to leave their houses for a certain time in order to gain access to some secret entrance or tunnel...the Three Garidebs, the Red Headed League and another whose name I forget). but none of that matters because they are very entertainingly written, preempt the kind of forensic detective work we know today and are utterly believable whilst maintaining a sense of Victorian mystery about them.

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What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?
Only the monstrous anger of the guns.
Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattle

Wilfred Owen

I've read them all and my personal favorite is The Adventure of the Dying Detective.

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There's a screw loose somewhere. There's a leak in the tank.

I've read a couple of those stories (the very first ones) and they were good! Also gotta love The Great Mouse Detective. Actually, that's a big reason for why I started reading the real Sherlock Holmes. Will be interesting to get to the stories with Morriartie. (Or however it's spelled.)

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I love Holmes but I had... issues with A Study in Scarlet. I loved it up until Sir Arty started talking about how evil the Mormon pioneers were. That was a loud of crap and it made me... rather unhappy.

I really like all the other stories though.

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Falstaff: I will not lend thee a penny.

Pistol: Why then the world's mine oyster,
Which I with sword will open.

Falstaff: Not a penny.

~William Shakespeare's The Merry Wives Of Windsor Act 2, scene 2

Isn't it?

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If the egg's shell does not break, the chick will die without being born. We are the chick; the egg is the world. If the world's shell does not break, we will die without being born. Break the world's shell! For the sake of revolutionizing the world!