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I have a friend who shares a lot of the same literary preferences as me. We both especially liked Nancy Drew. However, the Nancy Drew stories were getting a little too easy to solve. I was at his house (Yes, his, he was a boy who liked Nancy Drew, b…
I read my first SH story when I was about 12 years old. I was looking through my junior high library and came across a children's version of The Speckled Band. I picked it up and was immediately hooked. I've been reading Holmes ever since. There's s…
i think i heard his name when i was 6 y.o. i always hear his name at my grandfather and i became so curious about him. due to curiosity i read "A Study In Scarlet" and this book makes me freak and amazed on his cool deductions.. so my obsession to s…
Yes indeed. Such a dual analysis is a rather frightening thought, and such rich characters are always "more" than our diagnoses could ever capture. One is torn between the sheer joy of reading for its own sake and this strange hunger we have to put…
If you should ever write such a monograph please post a link to it on theses pages. It would be interesting to see Holmes` demons examined in comparison to Watson`s, "weaknesses of character".
It's wonderful to read all of these stories of discovery, whether launched out of boredom, a parent, TV, or a need to 'upgrade' and read a more intellectually complex mystery. Like many I started reading the Canon as an adolescent who was just drift…
Turnabout is fair play, as they say. Well done!
My initial encounter with Holmes occurred during an eighth grade English class where "The Blue Carbuncle" was introduced to us. Curiously, this was the only non-fiction work among the collection of stories assigned; clearly my teacher had (ignorantl…
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- Hometown:
- Washington, DC
- Relationship Status:
- Married
- About Me:
- I am me, and me I am. An all-around intellectual nerd and bit of a pendant. Well, maybe more than a bit.
I collect rare and first edition Holmes books and pastiches, among other things. My husband is completely baffled by anything Holmsian.
I just have a thing for tall, brilliant, and utterly unattainable.
- Favorite Books:
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, The Dark is Rising Sequence, The Bitterbynd Trilogy, (Unfortunately) Harry Potter, Silence of the Lambs, Glass Books of the Dream Eaters
- Favorite Holmes:
- The Copper Beeches, The Noble Bachelor
- How did you discover this site?
- Holmes LJ Community
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- At 8:30pm on November 4, 2007,
curious said… - tee hee. yeah, funny how I stumbled on this place AND found you here! weird huh? ;^P
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