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willbefunorelse's review against another edition
3.0
For the full review (and to see how I can truly link ANYTHING to Lost), visit the link at That's What She Read.
maedo's review against another edition
4.0
One of the two head-'n'-shoulders-above best classes EVER that I took in college was Crime Scene Investigation. I used to feel a little thrill in my chest whenever my instructor would break from theory and lead into an example from his own detective days with an ominous "We found a body...". He would sometimes lay out the clues found at the site and the suspects for us, and then leave us to parse out our own conclusions, based on what we knew of physical evidence and criminal psychology. These moments were easily my favorite part of the week, my favorite part of the semester, maybe my favorite part of college at all.
So, of course, I really enjoyed the Holmes mysteries. The emphasis in each case is on the detective explaining his reasoning; like Holmes, there are few things I like more than working through a good logical puzzle (that sounds super pretentious but there's really no other way to say it) especially when it means that closure will be had. For about 7 or 8 of these cases, I figured out the solution and motivation before Holmes' explanation. I'm not sure if this can be attributed to education or to how ubiquitous elements of these stories have become in TV and film, but it is likely at least as much the latter as the former.
The stories towards the end got noticeably weaker or less intriguing, with the exception of The Priory School. And the actual printing of the collection was pretty bad, as once in a while Holmes or Watson will reference a previous case that is included in the collection but that I had yet to read, so the comparison was lost.
But for the most part, I liked this and the opportunity it gave me to remember how I considered dropping my English degree senior year to begin all over again and study Criminal Justice. Two years graduated and sometimes I still regret this.
So, of course, I really enjoyed the Holmes mysteries. The emphasis in each case is on the detective explaining his reasoning; like Holmes, there are few things I like more than working through a good logical puzzle (that sounds super pretentious but there's really no other way to say it) especially when it means that closure will be had. For about 7 or 8 of these cases, I figured out the solution and motivation before Holmes' explanation. I'm not sure if this can be attributed to education or to how ubiquitous elements of these stories have become in TV and film, but it is likely at least as much the latter as the former.
The stories towards the end got noticeably weaker or less intriguing, with the exception of The Priory School. And the actual printing of the collection was pretty bad, as once in a while Holmes or Watson will reference a previous case that is included in the collection but that I had yet to read, so the comparison was lost.
But for the most part, I liked this and the opportunity it gave me to remember how I considered dropping my English degree senior year to begin all over again and study Criminal Justice. Two years graduated and sometimes I still regret this.
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