Sherlock Holmes

3/11/2024, 16:50 - Just finished reading “The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes”. Loved it! I found the short cases to be even more interesting than the ones on “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes”. I have already seen a TV adaptation of “The Final Problem” - specifically the soviet one - but reading the original story was really interesting and I was really glad to be able to understand Watson's perspective on the matter a bit better… It does leave me wondering how exactly the matter of, well, Sherlock “coming back to life” and all is going to be handled later on, if at all. The Soviet version did what in my very inexperienced opinion I consider an amazing job at handling both his supposed death and his return (way more emotional than what I expected! which is exactly what I was looking for in a Sherlock adaptation), so I'm pretty curious to see what it was like originally and be able to compare it a bit more accurately to any shows or movies I may watch in the future.
So far so good! I'm very excited to start reading "The Hound of Baskervilles" as well. I saw the soviet adaptation for it and I found the story to be very interesting - I was particularly fond of the “supernatural” or almost “horror” aspect the story has to it - and I really want to compare it to the original novel. Not sure if the parts where Sherlock is not present will be as interesting as they are on the show… I'm really hoping they are. I'd hate to get bored of it half-way through! It almost happened to me with “A Study in Scarlet”, to be completely honest.
Besides that, I want to finish reading at least what I consider essential for understanding the two episodes of “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson” I have left before I attempt to watch them again. Believe me, I tried my best to comprehend what was going on while watching the first part of episode 10, but I believe there's some context I'm missing that I may be able to understand better later on if I've actually read the original stories. If I'm not mistaken, the stories portrayed in those two episodes I've yet to read are "The Adventure of the Second Stain", "The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans" and "His Last Bow", all of which are in books I'm not even close to getting to just yet… I have to finish “The Return of Sherlock Holmes” to get the first one, then “The Valley of Fear” and only then I can read the other two on “His Last Bow”. I could technically just skip to those but I want to keep up the structure I've been following lately. I think this is all I have to comment on so far… I'll update as soon as I'm done with the Hound of Baskervilles :)