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banana29's review
5.0
Whenever I'm travelling, I try to read a fiction book set in the place I'm visiting. This summer when I travelled to England for the second time, I brought this book. I didn't know this little Arthur Conan Doyle trivia piece until a few days before we left Canada but.... http://www.historytoday.com/richard-cavendish/publication-hound-baskervilles it turns out Doyle was inspired by the story while on vacation in Cromer, Norfolk which is just about exactly the spot where we spent our summer vacation this year. However, the story itself takes place in Dartmoor, much further away. Next time, we'll visit Dartmoor. Sometimes it takes awhile to get into a book that was written in another place and time, but not so with this book. Perhaps I have the advantage of being hooked on the BBC's series "Sherlock" this year but I found this book very readable and even hard to put down. I would recommend it to anyone who likes a good mystery.
noemi's review
3.0
This was a really enjoyable read. Good for a few chilly "winter" nights in Madrid.
jooniperd's review
4.0
enjoyable and fun!! now that i am revisiting some of doyle's sherlock holmes' books, i am noticing his tendency to offer a long, rambling summary/wrap-up at the end of each story. i am not totally sure if i am a fan of this yet. and, while this rambling is going on...it's also feeling a bit...clunky. like, the mystery is solved, so it feels like the story is over...but then we aren't quite there yet as we now go over it all again. it's a purposeful style so i am curious to see how this goes in the coming stories. the 'hounds' solidified my #TeamWatson status. :)
holmesstorybooks's review
5.0
I purchased a lovely, and clothbound copy of this book because it is one of my favourite books.
I love this story. I love Sherlock Holmes, I love John Watson. I love the way Conan-Doyle writes atmosphere in this novel. This story, in particular, is somewhere between a detective story, an adventure story and a gothic thriller.
The first time I read this book, I read it almost completely in one sitting. And when I looked up, the sun had set.
Oh. Oops.
I was totally enamoured and enraptured with this story. I think it's one of Conan-Doyle's most beloved because it's a little bit longer than the short stories, so people get sucked in a bit more.
ANYWAY. Totally biased review. Holmes & Watson are my favourite. Everyone can go home. The end.
I love this story. I love Sherlock Holmes, I love John Watson. I love the way Conan-Doyle writes atmosphere in this novel. This story, in particular, is somewhere between a detective story, an adventure story and a gothic thriller.
The first time I read this book, I read it almost completely in one sitting. And when I looked up, the sun had set.
Oh. Oops.
I was totally enamoured and enraptured with this story. I think it's one of Conan-Doyle's most beloved because it's a little bit longer than the short stories, so people get sucked in a bit more.
ANYWAY. Totally biased review. Holmes & Watson are my favourite. Everyone can go home. The end.
geertje's review
4.0
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson will have to solve their strangest and hardest case yet: that of a mysterious hound that hounds (pun intended) the men of the Baskerville family.
I really enjoyed this story. I had no idea who was the culprit and what the motif was (unlike some other Sherlock Holmes stories), so that was nice. The descriptions of the landscape and manor were really well done, they were very evocative. Overall a clever and atmospheric novel that is really worth reading.
I really enjoyed this story. I had no idea who was the culprit and what the motif was (unlike some other Sherlock Holmes stories), so that was nice. The descriptions of the landscape and manor were really well done, they were very evocative. Overall a clever and atmospheric novel that is really worth reading.
macroscopicentric's review
3.0
Pro: more of Watson made for a different read. Con: boring compared to the first two novels. Had way more of a conventional mystery feel to it (completely lacked Holmes' unique reasoning skills).