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⌈ Secret Post #2573 ⌋

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Re: First-time Sherlock Holmes readthrough anon: Update II

[badass_tiger]

The Blue Carbuncle is one of my favourites too! It has such a nice feel to it, especially with Holmes deciding to forgive the bad guy in the end. People who say Holmes is a dick don't really know what they're talking about imo. He's rude and vain, right, and some of the things he does might be incomprehensible to the average person, but it's not really because he's a dick. He's quite a nice person, really.

I love your theory about Watson, it's not implausible at all. I mean, being nosy, just look at what he was like when he was trying to find out about Holmes in A Study in Scarlet! iirc you didn't read that one, right? But in it Watson is desperately curious about Holmes and keeps cute little notes about it. Gosh, he's my favourite part of the stories, I found the story where Holmes was the narrator somewhat dull tbh

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[(Anonymous)]

Holmes was the narrator for some stories? That sounds really cool, so I'm sad to hear you think they're dull. How many were there?

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[badass_tiger]

Just two. I'm not sure if it's a popular opinion that they're dull, but the people who I know think so are Watson fangirls :)

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[(Anonymous)]

I think it's a pretty widespread opinion? But that might just be because Christopher Morley said so in the introduction that was in the edition that I read when I was a kid - "Rashly, in the later years, Holmes twice undertook to write stories for himself. They have not quite the same magic." Gosh, that was a great introduction.

The thing is, it's not just that they're lacking in Watson, they're also very late stories from the period when the quality had unfortunately dropped a bit in general. So they might still have been kind of dull even with Watson.