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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780393311198
ISBN number: 0393311198
Label: W. W. Norton & Company
Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 224
Printing Date: 1993-09
Publishing house: W. W. Norton & Company
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For a non-canon story, this one is quite good. At the begin Holmes is in one of his cocaine fuelled bouts of depression he gets when inactive. Watson has to someone manage to get him to Sigmund Freud, who restores his state of mind. Then, they have to team up to stop a serious problem of the super villain variety.
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Very clever--good, smart fun. An enjoyable, easy read.
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This novel wasn't quite the knockout its cover blurbs promised, but it remains a fairly entertaining bit of literary ledgerdemain.
Dr. John Watson, now established and married, is visited by his erstwhile companion in crime-solving, Sherlock Holmes, who rants and raves about being stalked by his old math teacher. Moriarity. Watson soon discovers that Holmes is delusional due to his cocaine addiction. Eventually he enlists the aid of famed psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud. However, Holmes's addiction is the least of their problems. The trio fall into a mystery whose ramifications could mean the very destruction of the world itself.
I think it is the artificially antique prose style that prevented me from falling in love with this novel. It sounds too much like one author aping the voice of another, and the result is a little less than convincing. It is all too earnest. Had Meyer taken Watson's voice in a slightly different direction, then this might truly have been special and memorable.
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I was quite pleased with the book, being an actual reprint of the original one published in the 70's, which I had read before purchasing this copy. However, my feelings are kind of mixed, because Meyer 'edited' Watson's original work of the ending, matching it up to one of the plot devices that was used in the movie of the same name. I don't really know what to think of it, as it makes it clearer than the original version, but still - why make it coincide with the movie?
Besides that, I love the journey of Sherlock Holmes through his rehab period, and the interaction between Freud and Holmes is entertaining and, despite Holmes's behavior in the original canon, quite human. Even if you have never read any Sherlock Holmes, here is a good springboard to get you started into the adventures of the world's greatest consulting detective.
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The extant reviews describe the story to an extent slightly short of uploading an e-version of this classic. This forces me to refrain from saying anything but the following:
1. Meyer's writing is superb and way better than some other "writers" who defile Doyle by writing Holmesian adventures in ghastly language & style;
2. The story is taut and very exciting;
3. Somehow, the end evokes the image of the wisest and the best man walking into the sunset all alone.
Please read this work, if you like to see Sherlock Holmes as a human being who rose to become the immortal archetype of everything logical. Also read it if you want to immerse yourself in a story that explains a lot and yet, leaves a lot to imagine about.
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