Dec 05, 2005 11:07 AM
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(Updated Dec 05, 2005 11:07 AM)
Run ..run as fast as you can .... especially if you are a Baskerville man...!
I have been a Sherlock Holmes fan since the time I was about a foot and a half high.
When my father bought me my first Sherlock Holmes.... It was study in scarlet.... and it got me glued to the Holmes style.... his way of talking ... elementary my dear watson.. .... his was of dressing up .. . and most importantly his way of solving crimes....
I used to wonder.. how can a person be so observant as to be able to tell about another person just by looking at him.
In my opinion Hound of the Baskervilles was one of Sir Doyles's best creations. Any man .. be him young or old ...beliver in ghosts or non believer ... would shudder and feel a chill run down his spine ... just at the way doyle describes the moor , the grimpen mire , the huge Baskerville manor and last but in no chance the least the hound..... or maybe just the possiblility of the hound's presence.
He writes as Watson was being taken to the Baskerville manor .. he was actually scared when he looked out of the window and caught a glimpse of the moor.He said that even the clouds seem to be rushing ahead to avoid staying over the moor for long. Watson even reached out for his gun ... felt its presence and then he felt comfortable....... such was the fear of the moor ...just its presence has been described in such a way that it could get a sane man to feel scared if he would be reading the book at night all alone.
Sherlock Holmes has been shown as a person who never liked or believed in fairy tales .. and as the plot goes he actually has the courage to live for some time on the moor without letting anyone know ...just to keep an eye on all the characters.
Every story of Holmes has an element of suspence mishmashed with curiosity in it which just does not let you put down the book once you have started reading it. But in addition to that Hound of the Baskervilles has an element of fear... the plain mortal fear .... which has been described so much in detail that you would hate to put the book down without verifying first that there is indeed no ghostly hound or if there is at all one... it is gotten rid of at the end.
I personally think that the storyline is just amaising .... and deserves a read by everyone on this planet.
