Seems like I will be posting lot this October. Managed to finish The Complete Stories of Sherlock Holmes. First time I managed to get few hours into it. Yes I listened it as audiobook. Almost 71 hours long audiobook. It should have every Sherlock Holmes story Arthur Conan Doyle wrote. This time I benefitted from modern history binge I had before starting this. I knew some of the background. Without that I wouldn’t have made it. Not that the stories are bad but I thing you should know something about the world.
World was quite different back then or it is just writing of these stories. It is weird how criminals just start to confess everything they have done after Holmes have put pieces together. I don’t think logic was Arthur Conan Doyle’s strongest asset. Stories are told as books written by Watson. So everything in these stories are published in world of Sherlock Holmes. In his books Watson tells how he and Holmes are unknown primary suspects of murder and who the murderer was. Murderer who he wants to protect. Or how they let one killer to escape because they thought his actions were justified.
Shortest stories were better than longer ones. Study in Scarlett and Valley of Fear had long sections in America without Holmes or Watson which felt out of place. Binging this was bit of a mistake. You start to see patterns by the end. Holmes’ deductions start to feel far fetched after about 60 hours.