Wash ,'War Stories'
This thread is a focused discussion group. Please see the first post below for the current topic and upcoming book discussions. While natter will inevitably happen, we encourage you to treat this like a virtual book club and try to keep your posts in that spirit.
By consensus, this thread is reopened specifically to discuss Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. It will be closed again once that discussion has run its course.
***SPOILER ALERT***
Richard Roxburgh as Holmes
Oooo!
Yay! With Ginger's proposed schedule I should just about be able to participate. I've read HotB several times, as well as TSB, but none of the others. And I've always felt like I should know more about Holmes than I do (a family friend has one of the largest Holmesiana collections in the world, and my family is from around Moriarity, NM, which has a big Holmes do every year).
Thanks, Ginger! Thanks, Deena!
So this is the order, with dates, right?
A Scandal in Bohemia and The Red-Headed League -- 9/7
The Speckled Band and The Blue Carbuncle -- 9/14
1st half Hound of the Baskervilles -- 9/21
2nd half -- 9/28
The stories are up here: [link]
Deena, I can't say this enough. You rock!
Nicol Williamson (a very close fourth)
And don't forget his Watson - Robert Duvall. Very strange casting that, but Duvall was one of my favorite Watsons ever (you're right though, Mason was quite good). I'm just curious who ever thought Duvall = Watson. I NEVER would have come up with that.
Also, Peter Cushing made quite a good Holmes in the Hammer HotB (and was supposed to be superlative in a BBC series that, unfortunately, got wiped or supressed when the Brett series started - I memfault which).
Warren Ellis discusses what a bastard Holmes is here.
You guys rock! I'm really looking forward to this discussion. Also, I'm glad we have some other Holmes stories. I read them like an addict when I was about 10. Until HotB. I got about three quarters through, and was so scared that I wept with thanks when my mom took the book away from me. I stopped reading Holmes at that point (well, I had read most of the others already), and still haven't finished HotB. I'm really glad to have the opportunity to go back and finish it - hopefully with enough maturity to read it without nightmares!
Warren Ellis says a lot of what I had intended to say. Holmes is a prick. One of Watson's functions, I think, is to give you a character to identify with, one with human feelings. Some of the Holmes stories by other people try to make Holmes into a fuzzy bunny.
Does that schedule look okay to everyone? Do we need to post it in Press?
It looks good to me. I think Wolfram has been doing the Press postings. And perhaps Lilty could add it to the first post.
I think Wolfram has been doing the Press postings.
I really don't mind if others do Press postings, it is so not my thread. I'm just excited that we seem to be picking up some momentum again.
Ginger, why don't you go ahead and make the Press post. It might help people to register mentally that you're captaining the Holmes ship. Remember to include a link to Deena's page.
Hey Wolfram, the link in the first post you made about HotB in press is no longer active. I rearranged things a little when I put up all the stories. Do you want to edit with the correct link? [link]