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« Reply #76 on: March 31, 2008, 05:51:46 pm » |
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lol.
though i'm pretty sure Sherlock Holmes only did opium, tobacco and Heroin
and alcahol
and marijuana
but not acid...
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« Reply #77 on: March 31, 2008, 06:02:28 pm » |
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He may have smoked Opium in "...Twisted Lip" but mainly he injected Cocaine.
He loved it.
It was like a drug to him.
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« Reply #78 on: April 03, 2008, 10:53:00 pm » |
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The other day TV showed the Star Trek episode with Moriarty in it. A shame the world doesn´t have more evil geniuses. Besides Bin Laden I can´t really think of any.
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« Reply #79 on: April 03, 2008, 11:15:16 pm » |
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i'd hesitate to name Bin Laden as an evil genius,
you have to be a genius for one thing.
congrats on you're promotion it seems!
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« Reply #80 on: April 03, 2008, 11:27:49 pm » |
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Wow, I didn´t know there were more ranks. Now I can finally boss people around again. Aetherlord sounds really cool.
Well, he went to Oxford and comes from a family of billionaires. Also he has an underground lair and manages to plan some quite amazing operations. He´s the closest to a real life Bond villain I think.
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« Reply #81 on: April 04, 2008, 08:08:22 pm » |
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Don´t you think there are better places to post your fan fiction?
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« Reply #82 on: April 04, 2008, 09:53:37 pm » |
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I'm reading the Hound of the Baskervilles for school right now, I'm enjoying it a great amount.
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« Reply #83 on: April 04, 2008, 10:47:27 pm » |
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Nothing is cannon if not written by Doyle, however I doubt we will ever see a better adaptation that Brett & Hardwicke, it may have strayed from the text in a few places and added a few too many contemporary flourishes, by by god: genius.
I consider myself utterly blessed to have seen Brett & Hardwicke live as Holmes and Watson in Jeremy Pauls play The Secret of Sherlock Holmes, which plays fast and loose with the cannon in places and yet convinced me that Moriarty perhaps ... well, perhaps best left as a secret.
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« Reply #85 on: April 05, 2008, 06:26:19 pm » |
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I saw the Secret of Sherlock Holmes, as well. Takes me back quite a ways, almost twenty years ago in the West End. I think we might have the programme stashed away somewheres, I'll try to dig it out and scan the cover.
Nothing is cannon if not written by Doyle, however I doubt we will ever see a better adaptation that Brett & Hardwicke, it may have strayed from the text in a few places and added a few too many contemporary flourishes, by by god: genius.
I consider myself utterly blessed to have seen Brett & Hardwicke live as Holmes and Watson in Jeremy Pauls play The Secret of Sherlock Holmes, which plays fast and loose with the cannon in places and yet convinced me that Moriarty perhaps ... well, perhaps best left as a secret.
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« Reply #86 on: April 05, 2008, 11:00:13 pm » |
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« Reply #87 on: April 08, 2008, 01:22:32 am » |
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I am sure I am not the first person to have noticed that
"The Resident Patient" (1893) from "The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes"
and "The Cardboard Box" (1893) from "His Last Bow"
both contain a passage where Holmes reads Watson's thoughts,
and which are almost word for word the same.
Is any explanation known for this ?
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« Reply #88 on: April 09, 2008, 06:57:20 am » |
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Gee, I'm a kid in a candy store here.
I didn't know a single soul who also likes Sherlock Holmes and here I have a whole thread of them!
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« Reply #89 on: April 09, 2008, 12:02:40 pm » |
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G-Day Ma'am & Welcome.
I've not been here very long myself.
The Sherlock Holmes Thread has been rather quiet of late but I'm sure in time the original contributors will return.
I've read all the Sherlock Holmes short stories and novels and seen the Granada Television adaptations so many times I can chorus in with the dialogue in places, like it was the Rocky Horror Show.
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« Reply #90 on: April 09, 2008, 12:10:19 pm » |
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It's hard to come by Sherlock Holme's here however my mum did buy me a hardcover copy of A Study in Scarlet and The Hound of the Baskervilles. I have come across a few other books here and there and sure hope to expand my collection.
It also turns out I'm a sucker for Ian Hart, Richard Roxburgh and Rupert Everett so I enjoyed the recent BBC productions of The Hound of the Baskervilles and the Silk Stocking. Australians also have an underdog complex so I didn't take note of Matt Day's (Australian) attempt at an American accent.
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« Reply #91 on: April 09, 2008, 12:27:05 pm » |
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If you can put up with reading off your computer screen, all the stories can be downloaded.
I'd like to find some nice old antique copies.
I enjoyed those BBC shows too.
I was sure you'd get the Granada TV shows down under. They are all available on DVD as a boxed set but they ain't cheap.
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« Reply #92 on: April 09, 2008, 12:37:59 pm » |
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Why thank you very much good sir.
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« Reply #93 on: April 09, 2008, 02:40:43 pm » |
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I love Sherlock Holmes.
I've stuck with Doyle's stories so far - excluding one Chthulhu/Holmes crossover short story by Gaiman (and I know nothing of Chthulhu except the spelling and the fact that there are tentacles involved) - and read them again and again when the Holmes-fever struck (quite like episodic drinking, actually).
Now I've got two questions: Which Holmes-movies are worth watching and which other detective stories do you recommend to someone who's going through Holmes-withdrawal?
I'm still annoyed that Mina Harker made it into "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" instead of the much better qualified Irene Adler.
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« Reply #94 on: April 09, 2008, 02:44:29 pm » |
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You could try watching the show House, MD. It´s about a doctor at a hospital who is an expert at diagnostics and is given all the hard cases. He´s based on Sherlock Holmes. Every episode someone falls ill, and him and his team have to try and figure out how using logic and sometimes unconventional medical methods.
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« Reply #96 on: April 11, 2008, 01:15:35 am » |
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You might look into a book called Shadows Over Baker Street. Its a series of Holmes stories by modern authors (I think Gaiman is one of them) set in a Lovecraftian universe. I love Sherlock Holmes.
I've stuck with Doyle's stories so far - excluding one Chthulhu/Holmes crossover short story by Gaiman (and I know nothing of Chthulhu except the spelling and the fact that there are tentacles involved) - and read them again and again when the Holmes-fever struck (quite like episodic drinking, actually).
Now I've got two questions: Which Holmes-movies are worth watching and which other detective stories do you recommend to someone who's going through Holmes-withdrawal?
I'm still annoyed that Mina Harker made it into "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" instead of the much better qualified Irene Adler.
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« Reply #97 on: April 11, 2008, 01:18:59 am » |
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It's hard to come by Sherlock Holme's here however my mum did buy me a hardcover copy of A Study in Scarlet and The Hound of the Baskervilles. I have come across a few other books here and there and sure hope to expand my collection.
It also turns out I'm a sucker for Ian Hart, Richard Roxburgh and Rupert Everett so I enjoyed the recent BBC productions of The Hound of the Baskervilles and the Silk Stocking. Australians also have an underdog complex so I didn't take note of Matt Day's (Australian) attempt at an American accent.
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« Reply #98 on: April 11, 2008, 11:06:24 am » |
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Here's a link to Doyle's online pubs via Project Gutenberg. It contains the entire Holmes series, suitable for download.
Here's the link..... Arthur Conan Doyle at Project GutenbergOrlando. |
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« Reply #99 on: April 11, 2008, 11:13:59 am » |
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Shadows over Baker Street is good, but Gaiman´s story was not the best. I preferred The Hanged Man´s Puzzle.
There is a tv-show called Monk which is about a freelance detective often working for the police, who has severe obsessive compulsive disorder. If you like Holmes, you might like that. I haven´t seen much of it, but it seemed okay. They even gave him a Mycroft-like brother.
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