Long ago, I had a Sherlock Holmes book, and couldn't make it past halfway. I just had a hard time reading it, and didn't like it that much.
Since then, Kevin and I have watched all of the TV series "Elementary: and the PBS series "Sherlock." We loved them.
When I saw this book for only a dollar, I thought I would give it a chance. I had a hard time reading it, again. I liked the stories, but I kept stumbling when I read it, and I would have to go back and reread the sentence. I then decided to take a closer look. On just a couple pages, I found numerous misplaced commas and missing commas! Doyle was loose with his punctuation and a bad writer--with good stories. Whenever my unconscious mind hit bad punctuation or run on sentences, it stumbled. It goes to show you how important proper commas are.
After that, I didn't read as carefully, and I enjoyed the stories quite a bit. I liked comparing them to the TV shows, and seeing what they derived from the stories.
Don't read them carefully, and they are very entertaining stories.
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