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A review by dknippling
The Thinking Machine by Jacques Futrelle
4.0
A scientist who actually solves impossible crimes using stone cold logic.
Everything that people complain about with Sherlock Holmes--the inconsistency, the lack of fair play--is absent here. The stories are solved using fair, if not obvious, logic. Details are consistent. And yet the reviews for this book are not as glowing, nor the character as beloved, as Holmes.
It's almost as though what people say they want in a Great Detective isn't what they actually want. [Whistles.]
I liked these stories, although they did get repetitive after a while. They are puzzles, not adventures, and don't particularly engage the emotions. A fun point is that these are the type of mysteries that you'd see with Scooby Doo. There's even one with a tricked-up ghost. But the characters here aren't nearly as fun.
Clever, well written, logical. Just not stories to love.
Read if you like Holmes stories. Either you'll appreciate Holmes more, or you'll appreciate the logic here better!
Everything that people complain about with Sherlock Holmes--the inconsistency, the lack of fair play--is absent here. The stories are solved using fair, if not obvious, logic. Details are consistent. And yet the reviews for this book are not as glowing, nor the character as beloved, as Holmes.
It's almost as though what people say they want in a Great Detective isn't what they actually want. [Whistles.]
I liked these stories, although they did get repetitive after a while. They are puzzles, not adventures, and don't particularly engage the emotions. A fun point is that these are the type of mysteries that you'd see with Scooby Doo. There's even one with a tricked-up ghost. But the characters here aren't nearly as fun.
Clever, well written, logical. Just not stories to love.
Read if you like Holmes stories. Either you'll appreciate Holmes more, or you'll appreciate the logic here better!