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Winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K. Dick Awards, Neuromancer is a science fiction masterpiece—a classic that ranks as …
Agatha Christie: Crooked House (2010, HarperCollins)
Three generations of the Leonides family live together in a large, if somewhat crooked looking, house. Then the wealthy patriarch, …
Freak quakes are rumbling over the long-dormant tectonic plates of the planet, disrupting its trillion-dollar mining operations and driving scientists …
Who am I kidding? I'm not finishing this! Period.
What can I say? Mr. Booth is a favourite of mine since [b:The Bone Key: The Necromantic Mysteries of Kyle Murchison Booth|219813|The Bone Key The Necromantic Mysteries of Kyle Murchison Booth|Sarah Monette|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1389938448l/219813.SX50.jpg|212828] got into my hands several years ago. I have a soft spot for academic main characters. And for once, the "why the house is haunted?" is properly and satisfactorily explained.
I loved this book!
Thank you for writing another Kyle Murchison Booth story!
A very uneven collection of tales where Holmes and Watson are taken by the authors and put in different countries, different ages and different sexes. Some of the stories are quite good, and some simply aren't. These are the 14 stories:
1. A scandal in Hobohemia by Jamie Wyman. A carny not-Holmes in a travelling carnival.
2. Black Alice by Kelly Hale. A 17th century Holmes and Watson in England. Quite good.
3. The Adventure of the Speckled Bandana by J. E. Cohen Holmes and Watson's case in modern Las Vegas.
4. The Rich Man’s Hand by Joan De La Haye. South African Holmes and Watson found themselves in need of money and take a case from Lestrade. Its weird, really weird, but it's a good one. I love the sarcastic personality of Watson.
5. The Lantern Men by Kaaron Warren. A slow ghost story located in modern Australia, with …
A very uneven collection of tales where Holmes and Watson are taken by the authors and put in different countries, different ages and different sexes. Some of the stories are quite good, and some simply aren't. These are the 14 stories:
1. A scandal in Hobohemia by Jamie Wyman. A carny not-Holmes in a travelling carnival.
2. Black Alice by Kelly Hale. A 17th century Holmes and Watson in England. Quite good.
3. The Adventure of the Speckled Bandana by J. E. Cohen Holmes and Watson's case in modern Las Vegas.
4. The Rich Man’s Hand by Joan De La Haye. South African Holmes and Watson found themselves in need of money and take a case from Lestrade. Its weird, really weird, but it's a good one. I love the sarcastic personality of Watson.
5. The Lantern Men by Kaaron Warren. A slow ghost story located in modern Australia, with a Holmes that is not a consultant detective and a Watson that is not a doctor.
6. A Woman’s Place by Emma Newman. A very good answer to the question "but why does Mrs Hudson puts up with the detective pair?".
7. A Study in Scarborough by Guy Adams. A very interesting take on the "Holmes-Watson" pair as a famous but faded comedic duo in modern England. Quite good.
8. The Small World of 221B by Ian Edginton. Dr. Watson has to be the best man of Mr. Michael Stamford, and things start to go really weird. Very good story.
9. The Final Conjuration by Adrian Tchaikovsky. What happens if you can't take the impossible from the equation? This is fantasy and mystery at its best. I love this story.
10. The Innocent Icarus by James Lovegrove. A victorian London where everyone is born with strange superpowers. Except for Mr. Sherlock Holmes.
11. Half There/All There by Glen Mehn. Sherlock Holmes in Andy Warhol’s ‘Factory,’. I hated this one. Didn't finished it.
12. All the Single Ladies by Gini Koch. Contemporary California: a series of murders in all-female universities, a Dr. Watson with a sarcastic personality, a British Sherlock Holmes helping the local police and a reality show. Very good story.
13. The Patchwork Killer by Kasey Lansdale. A modern Watson, one not-so-modern Holmes and a weird series of killings. I didn't liked this one.
14. Parallels by Jenni Hill. Meta-stories in a story. If you like fanfics, this is your story. I hate fanfics.
A collection of short stories featuring the ‘heart specialist’, Parker Pyne.
Mrs Packington felt alone, …
The first time I read this book I must have been 12 or 13 years old. It was the Spanish translation, and I loved it.
Yesterday I finished my second reading, 40 years later, and it is still a good book, but all the "marital advise" is just too misogynistic for my taste. I know, I know... What did I expected from a book first published in 1934? Still, it should come with am introductory note about it
Belgian Inspector Hercule Poirot has retired to the countryside in the small English village of …
I wasn't expecting that! And I'm not saying anything else.
Published in 2004, it is an alternative history set in 19th-century England around the time of the Napoleonic Wars. Its …
Pues el libro trata sobre un misterio, un asesinato en una isla que queda inaccesible por culpa del mal tiempo... no, espera... el libro trata sobre las anécdotas cinematográficas de la vida de Basil Rathbone/Ormond Basil... no, espera... el libro es un tratado sobre la literatura de misterio, con ejemplos provenientes de todos los libros y relatos pertinentes, disfrazado de conversación entre el protagonista, Ormond Basil, y el coprotagonista, Francisco Foxá; el primero, un actor en el declive de su carrera que protagonizó todas las películas de Sherlock Holmes de la época de oro del cine hollywoodense, y el segundo, un escritor de novelas baratas de misterio y policiacas.
Si el maldito libro se decidiera por uno de estas tres posibilidades, sería mucho mejor. Así como está, los primeros dos capítulos me parecieron geniales, sobre todo por la trivia sobre cine de Hollywood de entre guerras y la discusión sobre …
Pues el libro trata sobre un misterio, un asesinato en una isla que queda inaccesible por culpa del mal tiempo... no, espera... el libro trata sobre las anécdotas cinematográficas de la vida de Basil Rathbone/Ormond Basil... no, espera... el libro es un tratado sobre la literatura de misterio, con ejemplos provenientes de todos los libros y relatos pertinentes, disfrazado de conversación entre el protagonista, Ormond Basil, y el coprotagonista, Francisco Foxá; el primero, un actor en el declive de su carrera que protagonizó todas las películas de Sherlock Holmes de la época de oro del cine hollywoodense, y el segundo, un escritor de novelas baratas de misterio y policiacas.
Si el maldito libro se decidiera por uno de estas tres posibilidades, sería mucho mejor. Así como está, los primeros dos capítulos me parecieron geniales, sobre todo por la trivia sobre cine de Hollywood de entre guerras y la discusión sobre literatura de misterio que mantienen Basil y Foxá... pero cuando esto continúa durante TODOS los capítulos, la verdad es que aburre. Si quisiera un libro sobre historia del cine, leería uno. Y lo mismo con respecto a los secretos del oficio de escribir misterios. En mi opinión, el Sr. Pérez-Reverte rompe la regla cardinal número uno que el mismo menciona: no aburrir al lector.
Y luego viene la vuelta de tuerca del penúltimo capítulo... ahí estuve a punto de aventar el libro. Lo bueno es que el autor salva la historia con la vuelta de tuerca del último capítulo. Por eso le dí tres estrellas.
Hay que tener muchas ganas de querer leer chismes del Hollywood de la época dorada para poder acabar este libro, y de verdad amar el género de misterio para aguantar todas las disertaciones, que huelen a relleno para que el relato llegara a tamaño novela, entre Basil y Foxá. El libro no es apto para quien simplemente busca un misterio en una idílica isla del mediterráneo, porque es eclipsado por el resto de la información que no sirve para nada, en relación al misterio, claro.
¿Qué le pasó al Pérez-Reverte que solía escribir excelentes misterios que iban al punto? Desde "La carta esférica" no hemos sabido nada de él.
