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 Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2006 9:32 pm
Favourite Adventure, favourite rendition, favourite character... You name it, it goes here.
Mine go thusly:
Favourite Adventure: the Silver Blaze
Favourite series: Granada
Favourite character (other than Holmes or Watson): Probably Atheleney Jones. xd
Favourite Holmes: Too many great ones to choose!
Poll Results:
None yet.
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Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 1:40 pm
Okay...
The Abbey Grange would have to be my favourite Adventure. I agree with you on Granada, but I think they should continue it with a different Holmes.
My favourite character would have to be Mrs Hudson, undeniably the most under-appreciated character in the series. Poor dear.
Basil Rathbone is the classic, but Jeremy Brett portrayed Holmes the best.
There's my list!
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Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 9:37 pm
Drat, I have been separated from my Annotated Sherlock Holmes by Wm. Baring-Gould too long! I am going to have to forcibly dredge it up from wherever my Holmes collection has been buried back home!
I have difficulty choosing one adventure, but my favorite collection is definately the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Watson's Literary Agent hadn't grown tired of the series yet.
I very much like the earliest Basil Rathbone pictures, "Adventures" & "Hound". I also can't help feeling fond of "The Seven Percent Solution", since it and the book are responsible for drawing me into the world of Sherlock Holmes. "Murder by Decree" was quite good--although I always complain at seeing a completed Tower Bridge on the horizon in 1888!
Overall, Jeremy Brett's series is the best, although the liberties taken in later episodes annoyed me.
I have to admit that I would love to have a copy of the outrageous parody of "Hound" done by Peter Cook & Dudley Moore... mrgreen It has to be my favorite of the parodies on film.
My favorite of the Pastiches must be the series by Laurie King. You'd hardly think it would actually work, really marrying Holmes off...but she carries it off excellently (except for Justice Hall, which I despised).
The weirdest Pastiches I have so far read are probably (not going to give titles--because you may not have read them...and because my memory is failing me... sweatdrop ) The one in which Holmes turned out to be an actor from the far future, and the verrry creepy one in which it turned out Holmes had developed a split personality & become Jack the Ripper.
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Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 11:58 am
There was one I read (no idea what it was called...) where Holmes runs into Wells' time traveller and gets dragged all over history with Watson and some PD of the Yard called Gladstone. It was really hilarious...
I don't suppose anyone's read that.
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Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 8:47 pm
Hmmm...How old is it, & is it a book, or a story in a magazine? It doesn't sound familiar...
(now I want to find it! mrgreen )
Anybody read Mark Twain's (rather lame parody? Or John Kendricks Bangs' The Houseboat on the Styx stories, which included Holmes in the afterlife (written before Return, I think). Or read any of the old "Sherlocko the Monk" comic strip by Gus Mager from the early 1900's?
(I went to Ball State University...it has a GREAT library! whee )
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Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 9:17 pm
I'm afraid I haven't. That one was a short story in somebody's collection, and I think it was written in the 70s.
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Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 9:30 am
Some of my favorite Holmes stories are Science-Fictional ones.
Science-Fictional Holmes is great stuff when the author is a true Sherlockian & gets the details right.
Poul Anderson's Hokas doing Sherlockian roleplay are hilarious!
I can remember a book set in some Avalon-like alternate universe which had advanced to its equivalent of Victorian times, and HG Wells' martians were about to invade, I believe. Holmes & I think also Watson were in a group of people who had somehow come over from their own universe--which had just suffered their own martian invasion & were trying to prevent it happening in this next one, seems to me. It was a weird one indeed.
And another one was set in a Britain that had magic & was never invaded after the Celts moved in. Watson turned out to be a hidden chief of the Picts, & I remember Victoria was VERY different...! xd
I even have one with a Sherlockian story set on an alien world populated by crustacean-like beings with a civilization that was at Victorian-equivalent levels. That was a pretty creative one, as it also wove in the culture & thinking of these alien people with the Sherlockian overtones.
It's been a long time since I found a good pastiche in any form besides Laurie King's work. None of these new writers doing Holmes stories in any form can really be Sherlockians; they just don't play The Game! mad
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Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 8:19 pm
No one plays the Game anymore, I'm afraid. Not outside of their own little delusions... *troops off to join up with the Anachronistic Society Victoria Club*
I'm building a sort of fanfic myself, though. It's more of a very twisted spoof, actually, but it's gotten laughs out of my students and those few family members who have any sense of humour.
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Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 10:46 pm
When you finish it, post it here for us to enjoy, Erik! 3nodding
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Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2006 9:51 pm
Will do. I couldn't bring myself to seriously slam either Holmes or Watson, but Lestrade comes out of the closet and it comes to light that Mrs Hudson has been unknowingly killing off London's homeless with her weekly charitable donations of various foodstuffs. biggrin
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Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2006 7:38 am
gonk How do Holmes & Watson survive her meals, though? xp
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Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2006 1:30 pm
Umm... Lemme hazard a guess. Holmes never eats her meals, really, and Watson survived army rations in Afghanistan, so he can likely survive any kind of culinary horror. Is that it? Or is the answer more obscure?
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Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2006 7:13 pm
rofl Close enough. Actually, that hadn't occured to me. I suppose she was trying out new recipes or something.
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Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2006 7:45 pm
I'm quite fond of the mistery of the dansing men (not sure the title in English, I've read all the stories in Spanish).
So fond really, that I manage to use the little "dansing men" to write short messages.
Best Holmes has to be Jeremy Brett.
I love Basil Rathbone, but I prefer him as a counterpart of Errol Flynn than playing Holmes.
Favorite character: Probably Moriarty.
As for the stories not written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the only ones that I liked where the ones co-written by John Dickson Carr and Adrian Conan Doyle. I think they were right. To write a good Holmes story you needed to know how to write a detective story, but also you needed to know the creator of the character very well so you could understand said character.
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Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2006 9:19 pm
I've read The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes. I suppose they are indeed well written, and yet they don't capture my imagination. There's some spark missing.
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