Got some books to help with what will be a Christmas Truce story project thing.
Reading A Study in Scarlet.
I remember reading that one for the first time. A little scarring for me, considering the sort of stuff I was reading at that age.
I liked the background story.
You know, Magician's Nephew includes how voyages between Our World and Narnia started. Robin Hood has a chapter about how he became outlawed. And A Study in Scarlet is not just the first case, but also before that the background story, how Dr Watson met Sherlock Holmes.
Which background stories are your favs?
Hm, trying to remember what all I've read that falls into that category! I prefer the backstory in The Valley of Fear (#4 of the Sherlock Holmes novels) to the one in A Study in Scarlet. I definitely enjoy MN. And The Hobbit (if it counts... it was written before LotR, after all).
Man, I can't think of any others right now. I'm certain I've ready more backstories than that....
Wait, you are not using backstory as I use background story.
Valley of Fear has a story told about background specific to that case, about Mormon being back then sectarian and so. But that is NOT the background to the friendship and detective association of Holmes and Watson.
Its like MN _is_ background story (my sense)for all stories about voyages to Narnia, while PC _has_ a backstory (your sense) for what had happened to King Caspian X before the Pevensies met Trumpkin.
Oh, I see what you mean now. Still running a blank, though, haha.
It hasn't been scarring yet...:P I actually enjoy a good murder mystery. 😛
I was a thirteen-year-old who was not accustomed to such things when I first read it. And really, it ended up being less scarring than a couple others. The Speckled Band had me freaked out for a couple weeks right before bed. Hound of the Baskervilles, I think, scared me the most, but its effects only lasted while I was reading the story; once I'd finished it, I was good. 🙂
I was actually accustomed to some worse things since childhood (in reading, of course), like I had read lots of DC Comics, Marvel Comics and even some Dracula and other horror stuff.
Oh, wow. Yeah, I was sticking to books for the 8-14 age range up until Sherlock Holmes.
The first Sherlock Holmes short story I read was the Blue Carbuncle. That one was not at all terrifying. But then I read was The Speckled Band, and I reacted basically how you did, Ariel. 😆
Haha, Blue Carbuncle was kinda weird. "So, I opened up my Christmas goose and there was this gem sitting inside!"
Anyone read the Sherlock Holmes by the son of the first author? It seems it is in one of them, that you get "elementary, my dear Watson!"
I didn't know that Doyle's son wrote one. I know that there's one non-Doyle mystery that has been accepted by the people who own the rights. I do know that Arthur Conan Doyle never put "elementary" and "my dear Watson" in the same sentence.
