Sherlock Holmes and a QUESTION
For the last week or two I've been following a series of drabbles 
rabidsamfan has been writing in her journal based on the Sherlock Holmes books. RSF writes beautiful and thought-provoking scenes and my fingers have been itching to pick up my Sherlock Holmes paperbacks again and fall back into that world. It's kind of a crazy week right now, but I found fifteen minutes last night to pull "A Study In Scarlet" off the shelf and it was comforting and fun to see how quickly I got lost in old London again. Looking forward to March Break and the finishing up of report cards so I can read without guilt :).
I don't tend to read a lot of mystery novels, it's not a natural genre for me to pick up. As in so many things in my life, my love of Sherlock Holmes started with "Star Trek" :). I had fallen hard for "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan" and discovered director Nicholas Meyer had also written a Sherlock Holmes novel called "The Seven-Percent Solution". I had never read any Sherlock Holmes, but I borrowed the book from the university library, enjoyed it a lot, and became instantly intrigued with the character of Holmes. It was time to dive full-force into the canon text. Over the next several weeks I read every original Holmes story I could find and fell in love.
When I travelled to London for the first time in 2000 to be the guest of honour with Urban Tapestry at the British filkcon I knew one of the places I had to go was 221B Baker Street in London. Had to go there- it had to be. My English friends were too blase to care to go to Baker Street, so I headed out there with fellow Canadian filker Dave Clement. I had never travelled on the Tube before and was pretty scared we'd get lost, but the Baker Street tube stop is pretty distinctive. All the tiles had profiles of Sherlock Holmes on them, there was a huge Holmes statue right outside the station and there was tour guide dressed like Holmes just waiting to give directions to wide-eyed Doyle tourists like us :). (see photos beyond the cut)
We headed straight to 221B Baker Street, which is now a London bank. The corner of the bank is all glass, though, and has a Victorian display in the window. Further down Baker Street you find the Sherlock Holmes Museum with its recreations of Holmes' and Watson's study and scenes from the assorted stories. And then we headed to the gift shop where I bought a t-shirt, which is still one of my favorites to this day, plus some bookmarks, and Dave bought a mystery game. A truly excellent day!
QUESTION: Are you a fan of the original Sherlock Holmes stories? When did you first read them? What is your favorite cinema/TV version of the Sherlock Holmes stories? Do you have a favorite book or movie or fanfic not by Doyle, but inspired by the Sherlock Holmes?
Yay, I'm so looking forward to reading the series again.
rabidsamfan has been writing in her journal based on the Sherlock Holmes books. RSF writes beautiful and thought-provoking scenes and my fingers have been itching to pick up my Sherlock Holmes paperbacks again and fall back into that world. It's kind of a crazy week right now, but I found fifteen minutes last night to pull "A Study In Scarlet" off the shelf and it was comforting and fun to see how quickly I got lost in old London again. Looking forward to March Break and the finishing up of report cards so I can read without guilt :). I don't tend to read a lot of mystery novels, it's not a natural genre for me to pick up. As in so many things in my life, my love of Sherlock Holmes started with "Star Trek" :). I had fallen hard for "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan" and discovered director Nicholas Meyer had also written a Sherlock Holmes novel called "The Seven-Percent Solution". I had never read any Sherlock Holmes, but I borrowed the book from the university library, enjoyed it a lot, and became instantly intrigued with the character of Holmes. It was time to dive full-force into the canon text. Over the next several weeks I read every original Holmes story I could find and fell in love.
When I travelled to London for the first time in 2000 to be the guest of honour with Urban Tapestry at the British filkcon I knew one of the places I had to go was 221B Baker Street in London. Had to go there- it had to be. My English friends were too blase to care to go to Baker Street, so I headed out there with fellow Canadian filker Dave Clement. I had never travelled on the Tube before and was pretty scared we'd get lost, but the Baker Street tube stop is pretty distinctive. All the tiles had profiles of Sherlock Holmes on them, there was a huge Holmes statue right outside the station and there was tour guide dressed like Holmes just waiting to give directions to wide-eyed Doyle tourists like us :). (see photos beyond the cut)
We headed straight to 221B Baker Street, which is now a London bank. The corner of the bank is all glass, though, and has a Victorian display in the window. Further down Baker Street you find the Sherlock Holmes Museum with its recreations of Holmes' and Watson's study and scenes from the assorted stories. And then we headed to the gift shop where I bought a t-shirt, which is still one of my favorites to this day, plus some bookmarks, and Dave bought a mystery game. A truly excellent day!
QUESTION: Are you a fan of the original Sherlock Holmes stories? When did you first read them? What is your favorite cinema/TV version of the Sherlock Holmes stories? Do you have a favorite book or movie or fanfic not by Doyle, but inspired by the Sherlock Holmes?
Yay, I'm so looking forward to reading the series again.