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I take back everything negative I said about The Seven Per Cent Solution in my last post. Compared to Sherlock In Love, it looks brilliant and worthy of a Pulitzer.
I now have a newfound appreciation for the phrase 'curiosity killed the cat'. I was boredly browsing the library and stumbled across Sherlock in Love. The title alone should have been enough to scare me off, but curiosity got the better of me and I checked it out and read it.
OMFG what a horrifying book. Profoundly odd and astonishingly creepy are the best words I can think of to describe it. As if it weren't enough that the author completely misses on the dynamic of the Holmes/Watson relationship, totally ignores and/or changes many perfectly solid facts from the canon, and generally alienates with a long strech of present-tense narrative, she just HAS to invent a cross-dressing sister for Holmes to fall incestuously in love with. Add to that adventures with the insane King Ludwig of Bavaria, including a mad-hatter tea party, Watson getting attacked by a swan, and Irene Adler ending up with WATSON instead of Holmes, and I think you get the picture. I am in a state of utter horrification. I don't think there's any such word as horrification, but this particular book merits the invention of it.
I. AM. SO. DISTURBED. BY. THIS. BOOK.
WARNING TO ALL HOLMES FANS:
AVOID. LIKE. THE. PLAGUE.
(Although I must admit to rarely having laughed so hard as when Watson was doing battle with the swan; that was insanely funny. And I keep laughing out loud every time I think of it, which is probably bad, since I'm at the library right now!)
I now have a newfound appreciation for the phrase 'curiosity killed the cat'. I was boredly browsing the library and stumbled across Sherlock in Love. The title alone should have been enough to scare me off, but curiosity got the better of me and I checked it out and read it.
OMFG what a horrifying book. Profoundly odd and astonishingly creepy are the best words I can think of to describe it. As if it weren't enough that the author completely misses on the dynamic of the Holmes/Watson relationship, totally ignores and/or changes many perfectly solid facts from the canon, and generally alienates with a long strech of present-tense narrative, she just HAS to invent a cross-dressing sister for Holmes to fall incestuously in love with. Add to that adventures with the insane King Ludwig of Bavaria, including a mad-hatter tea party, Watson getting attacked by a swan, and Irene Adler ending up with WATSON instead of Holmes, and I think you get the picture. I am in a state of utter horrification. I don't think there's any such word as horrification, but this particular book merits the invention of it.
I. AM. SO. DISTURBED. BY. THIS. BOOK.
WARNING TO ALL HOLMES FANS:
AVOID. LIKE. THE. PLAGUE.
(Although I must admit to rarely having laughed so hard as when Watson was doing battle with the swan; that was insanely funny. And I keep laughing out loud every time I think of it, which is probably bad, since I'm at the library right now!)
