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A Study in Scarlet - a book review

the sherlock holmes series is simply a timeless mystery classic. i've read the latter books in the series, such as the adventures of sherlock holmes and the final problem as well as the majority of the short stories in the return of sherlock holmes, and all i can say is that sir doyle was a genius, but in one aspect only. he did not have a unique writing style such as poe, nor was he descriptive in his scenery like ranpo. he is simply a genius in creating so many crimes, and so many criminals, without it getting dull or repetitive. he is also a genius in characters, for all of his victims' personalities were different from one another. i feel like i am just reviewing the sherlock holmes series generally, so i shall share my opinion of this book alone. i quite liked it, much like the rest of the sherlock series, and i like how our main characters first met, as well as the mystery that they handled. overall, i would recommend this book for it's, as i previously stated, a timeless mystery classic.

I found this short story by Sacher-Masoch. This is the ukranian translation, but I read it by translating it again with google translate. It's one of the silly goofy ones

Just remembered this fucking thing exists again

❃ a nest of gentry / dvoryanskoe gnezdo (1969) dir. andrey konchalovsky — adaptation of ivan turgenev's (1818 - 1883) novel of the same name, which is also translated into english as ‘a nest of the gentlefolk’ or ‘home of the gentry’ ❃

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