Another average piece of work by A. Conan Doyle, another astonishment seeing of how overrated his novels are.
This one seems like a dark adaptation of a comedia dell'arte story: characters which are not who they tell us, a sister which is a wife, the secondary bad guy punished by fate, a romantical hopeless idyll, a second-rate plot, second rate characters, as Watson occupies more place in the story than Holmes and his basic quality is not the intellect...

That's a meticulously woven story, which I eagerly could read because ACD placed many phenomena on elucidating throughout the investigation. A sensational masterpiece was complete of logic that would serve as a model for many current authors who dilute their history, always bloodied to attract the reader.

wow Why are you drawn to reading, the mystery surrounds you and scares you

It was okay. It's the first time I've read a Sherlock Holmes book. I probably need to try another one, but I think I prefer Agatha Christie.

I liked the setting, its old atmosphere, and the way the environment and people were described, but I didn't like the story itself.

The mystery and its revelation didn't surprise me.

Știți de ce îmi place Cîinele din Baskerville? Fiindcă are multe Piste False. Să vă spun și cum am identificat cu precizie motivul plăcerii mele.

Nu știu dacă vă mai amintiți acest amănunt, nu contează. Îl voi destăinui, în premieră absolută, acum și aici. Băiatul cu Asperger din n  O întîmplare ciudată cu un cîine la miezul nopțiin de Mark Haddon este pasionat de Sherlock Holmes și analizează cu necruțătoare pertinență acțiunea romanului publicat acum un veac și aproape un sfert (în 1902).

Iată ce spune cu mult temei tînărul Christopher John Francis Boone:

„Îmi place Cîinele din Baskerville fiindcă e un roman poliţist, ceea ce înseamnă că în el se găsesc indicii şi Piste False”.

„De asemenea, îmi place Cîinele din Baskerville fiindcă îmi place Sherlock Holmes şi cred că, dac-ar fi să fiu un detectiv adevărat, ca el aş vrea să fiu. Este foarte inteligent, rezolvă enigmele şi spune: Lumea e plină de lucruri evidente pe care nimeni nu le observă niciodată. Dar el le observă, ca şi mine. De asemenea, în carte se mai spune: Sherlock Holmes avea, într-o măsură cît se poate de remarcabilă, puterea de a-şi detaşa mintea după bunul său plac. Şi prin asta seamănă cu mine... Ăsta e şi motivul pentru care sînt foarte bun la şah...”.

Din fragmentele de mai sus nu rezultă, firește, că venerabilul detectiv Sherlock Holmes suferea de sindromul Asperger, deși se comporta ca și cum ar fi suferit.

Acum știți cu maximă acuratețe de ce-mi place romanul lui Arthur Conan Doyle. Pentru că are „indicii și Piste False” :)

P. S. În L’Affaire du Chien des Baskerville (Paris: Minuit, «Paradoxe», 2008, 166p.), Pierre Bayard demonstrează negru pe alb că numitul Sherlock Holmes a fost un detectiv incompetent. Și că numai fumurile erau de capul lui :)

- بسيطة، سريعة، سلسة وممتعة.

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"لم اجرؤ على رميه بالرصاص... لقد كان أعزل لا يحمل سلاحاً..والمسدس كان لحمايتي لا لقتله "

Check out my Booktube video that looks at the episode of Wishbone focused on The Hound of the Baskervilles!

I love Sherlock Holmes. I love his name, I love his clothes...I just love his style. Reading The Hound of the Baskervilles...I felt like I was reading the first detective novel ever written. Doyle defined the genre--he was the first and the best.

My nine-year-old daughter loves Sherlock Holmes. She has a little Sherlock Holmes hat that we bought for dress as your favorite literary character day, and she loves nothing more than to put on her little brown trench coat from Target, suck on her plastic pipe, and walk around our house interrogating the other members of our family on her quest for the truth--what happened to the little pink pig we haven't seen in ages...who didn't close up the bread when they were done eating it...who took (and did they dare read?) her sister's diary.

And the best part is she's never read anything involving Sherlock Holmes--he's just this powerful force of nature and to have ever heard his name uttered is to love him and want to be him.

The Hound of the Baskervilles is about a man who is murdered and everyone believes it to have been by a giant Hound from hell--a supernatural dog/beast that has been plaguing the men of his family for years according to local legend. Watson is there, and Holmes as well, to solve the mystery and save the day. This one was adapted for the screen an amazing 24 times. Required reading for everyone, IMO.

هولمز:"لم اجرؤ على رميه بالرصاص..فقد كان أعزل لا يحمل سلاحا..والمسدس كان لحمايتي لا لقتله "اذا"
نعم هذه الرواية تنتمي لعصر النبلاء..ولكن..انتظر..ليس لهذا الحد..فالمرء قد يفعل الكثير من أجل الميراث

هي افضل وأطول روايات شيرلوك هولمز ..و أكثرها تشويقا..استغرقت منه شهرا كاملا لحلها..وهي إهانة كبيرة له... تحكي عن وحش في صورة كلب عملاق ..يتحكم تماما في احدى مقاطعات الريف الانجليزي فما سر هذه اللعنة المتوارثة؟

قراتها كاملة في ترجمة قديمة منذ الثلاثينات..من سور الازبكية طبعا...ثم في ترجمة د احمد
اعشق ارثر كونان مع هولمز وبدونه..واعتبره الاب الروحي لكل ما نقرأه حاليا
..وبغض النظر على انتماؤه للبوب أرت. ..او الادب الشعبي..او الخيال العلمي ..فقد كان مفيدا وممتعا معا..والطريف ان امي وجدي احبوه ايضا..!!!أليس هذا هو النجاح؟؟

145th book of 2020.



Thrilling and compelling: the best Sherlock Holmes book yet. The supernatural and Gothic elements only elevate the story, the mystery and the intrigue. Doyle writes in far more detail than his other stories, creating the foggy moors, the faded landscapes and the dark woods. The setting isn't unlike Wuthering Heights, there are echoes of Fowles' The Collector, the hound itself, black and spectral, reminds me of Winston Churchill's 'black dog', which was what he coined his depression, and in turn, the dogs of Ian McEwan's Black Dogs - which are also, are they not, a metaphor, a very real one, for depression? The black dog is far reaching, then.



There are, unsurprisingly, many mysteries within the book and many twists-and-turns in the narrative. The two most interesting and compelling things about the book are: firstly, the hound itself (my blurb ends with the question, "But is it really something unearthly that walks there?"), and secondly, that Watson spends a great deal of time at Baskerville House alone and without Sherlock Holmes. This spins the mystery further: without Holmes' genius, Watson is left to guesswork, a few mistakes... We are struggling along with him. I don't read at all in the genre of crime and/or thriller, nor do I watch any television of the kind, so I would argue my mind isn't trained in guessing, but I foresaw none of the answers in the book; throughout the novel I was surprised at every new revelation. (Perhaps, though, I am easily surprised.)

The Curse of the Baskervilles portrays the terrifying legend that a great black hound, a devil-beast, that haunts the lonely moors around Baskerville's ancestral home. It is rumored that many of the family have met sudden, bloody, and mysterious deaths out on the moors at night and warning was written in an old manuscript.

Yet may we shelter ourselves in the infinite goodness of Providence, which would not forever punish the innocent beyond that third or fourth generation which is threatened in Holy Writ. To that Providence, my sons, I hereby commend you, and I counsel you by way of caution to forbear from crossing the more in those dark hours when the powers of evil are exalted.

Despite the warning, Sir Charles Baskerville is dead—and the footprints of a giant hound are found near his body.
But why was he out on the moors with an ailing heart? At night?

Dr. James Mortimer, the country doctor and friend of Sir Charles Baskerville has come to the home of the famous Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson for help. The last of the Baskervill's heirs, Sir Henry, is due to travel to London to live at Baskerville Hall in the coming days. Dr. Mortimer is sick with worry about the safety of Sir Henry and is asking Mr. Holmes to investigate Sir Charles's death in hopes of assuring that Sir Henry will not come to the same fate as his ancestors.
Mr. Holmes is skeptical of the legend of the great, demon-like hound but he and Dr. Watson say they will take on the case.

But is the Hound of the Baskervilles just that? A rumor? Or is it real?
Mr. Holmes and Dr. Watson are about to find out.

n  "Where is it? " Holmes whispered; and I knew from the thrill of his voice that he, the man of iron, was shaken to the soul. "Where is it, Watson?
"There, I think" I pointed into the darkness. "No, there!"
Again the agonized cry swept through the silent night, louder and much nearer than ever. And a new sound mingled with it, a deep, muttered rumble, musical and yet menacing, rising and falling like the low, constant murmur of the sea.
"The hound!" cried Holmes. Come, Watson, come! Great heavens, if we are too late!"n

The Hound of the Baskervilles is a classic, thrilling and scary read from the beginning to end. The intensity continues to creep up, raising goose bumps on my arms and sending chills up my spine more than once! It was the perfect novel to read around Halloween and I highly recommend it!
I'm ashamed to say that I've never read any of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes novels until now and I'll be the first to admit that I've been missing out of one history's best mystery writers of all time! I love Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson as they are very fun characters, especially Mr Holmes's idiosyncrasies!
I'll be reading more about Mr. Holmes and Dr. Watson!

"El sabueso de los Baskerville" es la más famosa de las novelas de Holmes, tratándose un clásico del género de los libros de misterio. Lo más probable es que hayas leído una historia en algún momento de tu vida que tenga los mismos elementos que esta: un misterio, un asesinato, algo en juego, personajes en los que se puede o no confiar, conjeturas descabelladas, callejones sin salida y una explicación de lo que realmente sucedió al final.

Lo que más me gusta de este libro es la escritura. Doyle se basa mucho en establecer una atmósfera densa en lugar de saltar directamente a la acción. Presenta personajes que tienen motivos, sueños y confiabilidad en su naturaleza o apariencia para sacarlos del apuro y descartarlos como sospechosos. Esto no me importó, ya que las interacciones y los interrogatorios fueron de primera categoría, y nunca resultaron apresurados.

El gancho de la historia, una maldición de un siglo de antigüedad que supuestamente deja a una familia prominente perseguida y amenazada por un sabueso del infierno de otro mundo, brinda un escenario oscuro y melancólico, envuelto en misterio y un viaje a lo desconocido. Esto es exactamente lo que necesita un misterio. No debe estar ambientada en un lugar alegre donde la emoción persiste en el aire, sino en un lugar donde el peligro pueda mostrar su cara fea tanto a la luz del día como en las horas más oscuras de la noche.

En general, fue una lectura bastante agradable y, en mi opinión, fue exactamente la duración adecuada para que el lector esté satisfecho con la historia y no se sienta abrumado con los detalles y/o la cantidad de posibles sospechosos.