You may have heard it before but I became interested in mysteries when I was an early teen and reading Sherlock Holmes was one of the reasons for this.
I decided to go back to read some Sherlock Holmes stories and I am reminded why I was so interested in these stories. You see - I was astonished like Dr Watson by the conclusions Sherlock Holmes could make based on his observation skills.
He also fascinated me by some of the things he said. In A Study in Scarlet for example, how he describes a man's brain being like an attic. It is a practical description about how a smart person only puts useful stuff in his brain rather than filling it with a lot of worthless stuff. It is a very good explanation. Funny how we not only put useless stuff in our heads but we also a lots of times keep useless stuff in our attics (or garages, or closets) as well!!
So going back and rereading Sherlock Holmes is really been a good experience for me. Are there things you have read years ago and taken the time to go back and reread them later?
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For me it's Agatha Christie. There are only a couple that I can actually remember "who done it". So, it's almost like a new mystery every time...lol...that's not to say my attic isn't clutter, it's just too cluttered to hold onto the murder :-)
I usually don't like going back to mysteries. Don't know why. Classic literary books, like Ellison's INVISIBLE MAN or MOBY DICK, I could read a thousand times. Maybe it's because, for me, so-called literary fiction, at its best, usually allows for a wider variety of readings. Hence, returning to them can be more fruitful.
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