Sherlock Holmes anthology...
Dec. 21st, 2011 01:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
katikatLately, I haven't been watching many shows or movies - or actually anything at all, to be honest - because I'm determined to finish listening to the audiobook The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes before the year's end. It's an anthology of stories with a supernatural theme. But...
It's BORING! Oh my God, it's boring *hangs head* I'm halfway through - still over 10 hours to go, though! - and so far, I fell asleep twice listening to it. Whether you take The Doctor's Case by Stephen King or Commonplaces by Naomi Novik or any other story, you want to weep because of how downright bad the writing is. I mean, King's story was stupid, really, really dumb. And Novik? She sneaked in some slash - but "balanced" it out with Holmes and Irene Adler's boinking like rabbits. These are the stories that annoyed me most, the rest's been mostly forgettable.
Oh, I would be lying. There WAS one exception! Neal Gaiman's A Study in Emerald was great, an alternate universe story set in a world ruled by the monsters and gods from HP Lovecraft's Cthulhu stories. That one was excellent! And there was an amazing twist at the very end that made me go all "O_o Waita minute, there! Back up! What?!"
So yeah. But I'm determined to finish it! I bought the book and I love Sherlock Holmes - even though this anthology made me realize that love sometimes hurt.
It's BORING! Oh my God, it's boring *hangs head* I'm halfway through - still over 10 hours to go, though! - and so far, I fell asleep twice listening to it. Whether you take The Doctor's Case by Stephen King or Commonplaces by Naomi Novik or any other story, you want to weep because of how downright bad the writing is. I mean, King's story was stupid, really, really dumb. And Novik? She sneaked in some slash - but "balanced" it out with Holmes and Irene Adler's boinking like rabbits. These are the stories that annoyed me most, the rest's been mostly forgettable.
Oh, I would be lying. There WAS one exception! Neal Gaiman's A Study in Emerald was great, an alternate universe story set in a world ruled by the monsters and gods from HP Lovecraft's Cthulhu stories. That one was excellent! And there was an amazing twist at the very end that made me go all "O_o Waita minute, there! Back up! What?!"
So yeah. But I'm determined to finish it! I bought the book and I love Sherlock Holmes - even though this anthology made me realize that love sometimes hurt.
