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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle has been given a fitting tribute in The Complete Sherlock Holmes...150 years after his birth. I've enjoyed David Timson's spirited readings of the stories ever since The Speckled Band appeared in 1999. He is one of those narrators who sinks himself so convincingly into character, so subtly differentiating timbre, dialect and accent, that you can hardly believe that the reading is being done by a cast of one - this requires extraordinary versatility given the 228 disguises in the four novels and 56 stories starring Holmes that Conan Doyle penned. Timson told me that he elected to go back to the original Strand Magazine version of the tales, warts and all. Conan Doyle never proofread his work, believing that the sweeping energy of the telling was more important than accuracy of detail: What matter if I can hold my readers? he said. Hold them he and Timson certainly do. ----Christina Hardyment, The Times
This is the first time the entire Holmes canon - four novels, umpteen adventures and scores of stories...has been published in a single package. Here's where I eat my hat and confess that, far from being lukewarm as I've claimed more than once about the legendary sleuth, I am now as addicted to the delights of elementary deduction as Holmes was to opium. What prompted the U-turn? It's hard to pinpoint. The unhurried build-uo of the Holmes/Watson buddy relationship, maybe, described so endearingly by the latter, those fireside evening with the doctor deep in a surgical treatise while his flatmate deciphers the inscriptions on a 15th-century palimpest with a magnifying glass. Then there's Holmes's unpredictable character...And finally there's David Timson's wonderful voice, bringing Conan Doyle's vast and extraordinary cast from every level of Victorian society to life. What a marathon, what a result. ---Sue Arnold, The Guardian
Over a period of several years, Timson has achieved a feat comparable with the BBC's dramatisations starring Clive Merrison and Michael Williams. As far as I am aware, he is the only reader to have tackled the entire Canon. And he has proved himself equal to the task. All of Conan Doyle's stories are represented in this 60 disc-set, providing nearly 73 hours of listening pleasure - which is an entirely accurate description of the set's contents. I'm happy to report that Timson's work is among the best currently available, not simply of Holmes readings, but of audiobooks in general...Timson has no hidden agenda: he is content to give us the stories as they were meant to be enjoyed, and we can bask in the elegant simplicity of Conan Doyle's effortless prose, which has hardly at all in the last hundred and twenty years. --Roger Johnson, The Sherlock Holmes Journal
This is the first time the entire Holmes canon - four novels, umpteen adventures and scores of stories...has been published in a single package. Here's where I eat my hat and confess that, far from being lukewarm as I've claimed more than once about the legendary sleuth, I am now as addicted to the delights of elementary deduction as Holmes was to opium. What prompted the U-turn? It's hard to pinpoint. The unhurried build-uo of the Holmes/Watson buddy relationship, maybe, described so endearingly by the latter, those fireside evening with the doctor deep in a surgical treatise while his flatmate deciphers the inscriptions on a 15th-century palimpest with a magnifying glass. Then there's Holmes's unpredictable character...And finally there's David Timson's wonderful voice, bringing Conan Doyle's vast and extraordinary cast from every level of Victorian society to life. What a marathon, what a result. ---Sue Arnold, The Guardian
Over a period of several years, Timson has achieved a feat comparable with the BBC's dramatisations starring Clive Merrison and Michael Williams. As far as I am aware, he is the only reader to have tackled the entire Canon. And he has proved himself equal to the task. All of Conan Doyle's stories are represented in this 60 disc-set, providing nearly 73 hours of listening pleasure - which is an entirely accurate description of the set's contents. I'm happy to report that Timson's work is among the best currently available, not simply of Holmes readings, but of audiobooks in general...Timson has no hidden agenda: he is content to give us the stories as they were meant to be enjoyed, and we can bask in the elegant simplicity of Conan Doyle's effortless prose, which has hardly at all in the last hundred and twenty years. --Roger Johnson, The Sherlock Holmes Journal
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30 of 31 people found the following review helpful
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This is excellent. All four long stories and all five collections of short stories are here. Importantly for a Kindle edition, from the contents page you can go directly to any story long or short and even to any chapter of each of the four long stories. In effect the whole canon of Holmes stories at your finger tips.
76 of 83 people found the following review helpful
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I discovered Sherlock Holmes a few months ago and I can not believe how good these stories are. I read all the stories in about three weeks. I have now almost finished them for a second time and a second reading has only increased my appreciation for them.
There are many things about these stories that I find to be brilliant but I will discuss only three in this review so as not to make it too long.
The first is that Holmes is actually as brilliant as his reputation would have everyone believe. Something that I find extremely annoying in fiction is when a character has a reputation for being a fantastic investigator or for being great at something else but they never do anything to prove themselves worthy of that reputation. The character just seems to have average intelligence and the writer makes the main character look smart by making everyone else stupid. Doyle actually went to the trouble of thinking up brilliant things for Holmes to do instead of just making everyone else in the stories stupid as a lot of writers do.
The second is the way Doyle handled Holmes and Watson's relationship. Something else that I have come to detest in fiction is the typical friendship in which the characters are too often making a huge sacrifice for one another and are too frequently having big emotional scenes together. Relationships such as that eventually get to the point where they seem too unrealistic and no longer make me feel anything. But Doyle manages to convince the reader that Holmes and Watson are close friends without any of the sacrifices or emotional scenes. He uses little things to show the depth of their friendship which prevents it from ever becoming sappy or too fictional. Also, the way he wrote the characters helps a great deal to establish them as being close friends. The main thing that convinced me that Holmes and Watson must care a lot for one another was the fact that Watson put up with Holmes' arrogance, rudeness, and strange behavior and the fact that Holmes, who was a very cold and unemotional person, actually allowed Watson to be his friend.
The third is the stories themselves. Even today they are so original and unpredictable. Another complaint that I have about modern fiction is that I can usually determine the whole plot of the story at the very beginning or at least have a general idea where the writer is going to go with the story and the charcters. With most of these stories I didn't have a clue as to what was going to happen next. There were a couple of the stories that I was able to predict but it was still cool to hear Holmes give a logical explanation as to how he had arrived at a conclusion that I had only arrived at by guessing.
If you've never read these stories then I would highly recommend doing so. They are absolutely wonderful.
34 of 37 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I like short stories that have action,humour and captivating mystery - so thank heavens for Sherlock Holmes! In my spare time this book completely bound me to my seat. Iam also very grateful for this book because it completely shattered Basil Rathbone's one-dimensional portrayal of the detective. I'd never appreciated Sherlock before bacause of his portrayal, which only gives the impression that Sherlock smokes a pipe and says "Elementary" all the time! Now I know the truth thanks to this book. What a shame there aren't any illustrations,this book would have been my Bible if there had been any.
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would recommend
Very good book!! Highly recommend. Contains the entire Sherlock Holmes collection with short one chapter stories and longer tales aswell. Surprisingly cheap. Read more
Published 17 days ago by sherlock holmes fan
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The Complete Sherlock Holmes Collection covers every single chapter and story in the sherlock saga,from beginning to end it is totally engrossing and very well illustrated. Read more
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I have been meaning to complete my reading of the Sherlock Holmes stories for many years, having previously stopped at The Final Problem. Read more
Published 22 days ago by WodeWarrior
leaves you feeing short changed!
Some of the short stories have what can only be called daft endings or not worth the build up,I would give examples but don't want to ruin the book for anyone. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Chris
Too Many Spelling Mistakes
This collection of all the Sherlock Holmes stories was a bargain. The stories are excellent,and it is good to read the lesser known Sherlock tales. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Cimmie
A perfect gift for readers
I bought this book as a present for my adult daughter's birthday. She mentioned she had never read the Sherlock Holmes stories and wanted to, so this was perfect for her. Read more
Published 1 month ago by JackieEssex
Complete Sherlock Holmes for Kindle
Reading right through the lot! Very interesting and enjoyable with minimal, but interesting notes. There are some typos, which are irritating - and which Mr Holmes and Conan Doyle... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Cath Stead
I am learning
I am a Japanese who have some interest in reading original books written in English. I have almost read novels written by Robin Cook, Dan Brown, David Baldacci, and so on. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Tazudoumaki
a true genius of words
sir Arthur Conan Doyle true genius, Sherlock Holmes by far the greatest fictional character ever invented
absolute joy to read ever page as captivating as the next so good you... Read more
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Published 2 months ago by D. Rooks
Very Good
Very enjoyable, just a pity that American English is used! Sherlock Holmes is an English novel, so please use the English language!
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