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Bezig met laden... Regarding Sherlock Holmes: The Adventures of Solar Pons (1945)door August Derleth
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Well, unlike August Derleth's Lovecraft pastiches, I was able to read it to the end. Overall, I liked it but there were stories that dragged in the middle or where the mystery seemed a bit trite for a Holmesian story. The stories also seemed to find and adhere to a formula fairly early on but I didn't really mind that all that much. I'm all for pulp Holmesian stories and these for the most part fit the bill. However, they lack any real atmosphere (as does any of his writing that I've happened upon) and the characters were interchangeable, there are no real memorable characters of note here even the Broken Faced Man! So, would I recommend this one to someone seeking a little lighter Holmesian fair, sure, it's not stellar but it is pretty close to the real thing. I did get jolted more than once expecting to read Watson rather than Parker. ( ) Fiction Literature's Salieri I love me some Sherlock so was quite excited to get all? the volumes of the Solar Pons books. When Doyle stopped writing Sherlock, Derleth contacted him and asked if he (Derleth) could continue the series, but Doyle said "No." So Derleth did anyway, shifting the setting a bit later but keeping all the characters (albeit with non-infringing names). Unfortunately, he's no A. C. Doyle. The mysteries are easier to solve than Sherlock's and the characters are forgettable. The stories are formulaic and seem dry somehow. Derleth's Sherlock, er, Solar seems more like amateur fan-fiction than a continuation of Doyle's work or anything that could have stood on its own. Derleth also continued Lovecraft's work (after his death) with his own shallow attempts, producing a number of unsatisfying works that could dilute the very work he sought to "honor". I made it through the entirety of Pons Volume 1 but won't be reading any of the others unless I hear that he radically improved somewhere along the line. My advice: Save the effort, and re-read the original Holmes. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Onderdeel van de reeks(en)Solar Pons (1)
Once again in old London, "the game is afoot." In these pastiches of the Sacred Writings, written when he was nineteen and twenty, August Derleth has recreated the London of Sherlock Holmes. It does not matter that the familiar name has become Solar Pons, or that the familiar Baker Street has become Praed Street - something of the nostalgic charm and fascination, of the remembered quickening of the pulse and the familiar settings of the original London of Sherlock Holmes, has been recaptured in these pages. And what intriguing titles there arc to these twelve pastiches, chosen from among a greater number! Here are "The Adventure of the Frightened Baronet" - about a spectral image of Siva seen at a country estate beyond London; "The Adventure of the Purloined Periapt" - which is the purest of pastiches and perhaps the closest of all the tales in this book to the original spirit; "The Adventure of the Norcross Riddle" -containing some of the neatest deduction in the book; "The Adventure of the Man with the Broken Face" - a tale of "dark waters"; and eight others. "No doubt," writes Vincent Starrett in his Introduction, "we - and by we, I mean those frantic and incurable Sherlockians who, with August Derleth, deplore the paucity of canonical entertainments - should rather have more of the great originals, but we accept the imitations, faute de mieux, to satisfy a normal appetite. And we accept them with enthusiasm. They are the work of affectionate minds and hands. There is no intention to deceive. These stories, and others in their field, are intended only to please. They are nostalgic reminders of vanished days and nights in Baker Street." Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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