[books 2016] Catching up

[inulro]

22. The Origins of European Dissent by RI Moore
I've been putting this off till I am un-brain-fogged enough to discuss the ideas within. Not going to happen

Comments

[ivory_goddess]

I quite like The Sign of Four. Although it does suffer a bit from the Long Story Problem of too much set-up/back-story and not enough Holmes & Watson, it's to no-where near the same degree as The Valley of Fear or A Study In Scarlet (which at least has the whole introductory thing going for it). The boat-chase at the end is pretty damned good too.

[inulro]

I thought appreciation of the boat chase was just me - I love depictions of the Thames as a working environment and Conan Doyle captured that exceptionally well.