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Film Friday: Comparing Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes to Conan Doyle's Stories :: Movies :: Columns :: Paste - http://www.pastemagazine.com/article...
Neil Saunders liked this
Interesting style of review of new Sherlock Holmes movie. The reviewer, Robert Davis analyzes some of the actions of the characters and then finds Canonical references that support or refute the activities - and he does so with Canonical quotations, backed by Google Books. His links to the stories are direct, so the reader can see exactly in which stories the quotes appeared and in what context. It's a bibliography for the Information Age. Linked from Baker Street Blog.
- Mack Lundy
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Read a paper review in the Times on my way to work this am - good start, goodish middle, poor end. Plot/screenplay not good, chemistry between actors playing Holmes/Watson & sets very good. That about sums it up. We are thinking of going to see it en famille over the upcoming holiday (so few films qualify these days) - but I saw in the review it is directed by Guy Ritchie which puts me off a bit (not that I've seen any of his films).
- Maxine
I'm in two minds as well Maxine - but a boxing day tradition for us is to go to the movies and this is really the only one opening that appeals at all. I've only seen two Ritchie files - Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels which was OK but not the amazing thing that many thought and Rock N Rolla which was the stupidest thing I saw last year.
- Bernadette
I'm quite looking forward to it, even as a Jeremy Brett die-hard :-)
- Neil Saunders
Given my current obsession with all things Holmes I will have to see it. Maxine, I thought Snatch was a much better movie than Lock Stock... and is the only Guy Ritchie I like, so far. It also has one of my favorite Brad Pitt performances.
- Mack Lundy
Ohh, me too Neil (Jeremy Brett die-hard). Brad Pitt...hmmm....don't think I've seen him in much except that one in which he played a deranged lunatic (Bruce Willis time travel). Maybe it will be Avatar after all...
- Maxine
So glad you posted this -- I read many of Conan Doyle's books but wasn't too sure about this fiml adaptation. My favorite spin-off series is Laura R King's series (beginning with The Beekeeper's Apprentice) also shows Holmes in a more interesting light, with much of the complexity of the original series.
- Mickey Schafer
Whenever I think of films of Sherlock Holmes, I cannot help thinking of that ludicrous (deliberately) film "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes's Younger Brother" starring Gene Wilder. Who could forget his sneering jibe: "Sherlock Holmes? Sheeeeeeer-luck Holmes. Ha!"
- Maxine
The Last Sherlock Holmes Story by Michael Dibdin - http://capturescrime.blogspot.com/2009...
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The Sherlock Holmes Handbook, Ransom Riggs - http://capturescrime.blogspot.com/2009...
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Jason Pinter: The State of the Crime Novel - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jason-p...
Bernadette and Margot Kinberg liked this
I don´t have time to read it all right now, but I liked this one: "a lover of everything that goes bump (and bang, and slash, and boom) in the night"
- Dorte Jakobsen
Mystery Books News: Warner Bros. Launches Sherlock Holmes Viral Online Game - http://www.mystery-books.com/2009...
Any Sherlock Holmes fans with Facebook accounts here?
- Mack Lundy
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Rafe McGregor doesn't visit here ;-( but he's probably on FB.
- Maxine
Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks - John Curran - Random Jottings of a Book and Opera Lover - http://randomjottings.typepad.com/random_...
I hope this wasn't previously posted. I did a search on "secret notebooks and nothing popped up.
- Mack Lundy
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Oh, thanks for sharing this, Mack!! I must now immediately get myself a copy : ) : )
- Margot Kinberg
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Review: The Rule Book, Rob Kitchin - http://capturescrime.blogspot.com/2009...
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Books acquired on our trip to the U.K. - http://capturescrime.blogspot.com/2009...
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Side Trip on the SHRC: The Final Solution: A Story of Detection, Michael Chabon - http://capturescrime.blogspot.com/2009...
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Corduroy Mansions 2: The Dog Who Came In From The Cold, Alexander McCall Smith - http://capturescrime.blogspot.com/2009...
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Craig Sisterson and Rob liked this
Russel McLean gives an opinion about James Kelman's attack on genre fiction. McLean believes all crime novels are social novels. "Crime fiction – whether with detectives or criminals or just people caught in a bad, bad situation – can tell us more about the world in which it was written than any other genre."
- Mack Lundy
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Resisting A Day Without Cats - http://capturescrime.blogspot.com/2009...
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Off topic but public service - Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine: I Plan to Run a Few Photos of My Cats - http://billcrider.blogspot.com/2009...
Do cats need a day when there are no images of them on the Internet? Follow the link on Bill's page to the "press conference" announcement of a cat free day. So, fellow FriendFeed cat people, agree or disagree? Like bill, I think I'll be posting some pics myself.
- Mack Lundy
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Review: Wake Up Dead, Roger Smith - http://capturescrime.blogspot.com/2009...
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Bury Me Deep by Megan Abbott - http://capturescrime.blogspot.com/2009...
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Questions about the Kindle - http://capturescrime.blogspot.com/2009...
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Cathy liked this
Crime related since Ian Rankin and John Grisham are mentioned.
- Mack Lundy
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Charles Ardai - KILLER COVERS: Crime on His Hands - http://killercoversoftheweek.b...
Charles Ardai is the editor of Hard Case Crime and an excellent crime writer - Songs of Innocence, Little Girl Lost, Fifty-to-One. Here he talks about the covers to Hard Case Crime books.
- Mack Lundy
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Swedish crime writer Henning Mankell gives a sneak preview of what he insists will be Inspector Wallander's last case - Scotsman.com Living - http://living.scotsman.com/books...
I really have to start reading this series. Don't know why I've waited so long. No Kindle versions.
- Mack Lundy
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At least having waited so long you can now read them in order.
- Maxine
@ Maxine -- wanted to leave a "like" on the Petrona post, but had a problem with FF, and now cannot find the post at all -- in any case, "like"!
- Mickey Schafer
Thanks, Mickey! I took the post off my feed as it also goes into the crime and mystery room so I try to avoid duplications....See http://ff.im/75hM1. All best and thanks! Maxine.
- Maxine
My Kindle -- First Report - http://capturescrime.blogspot.com/2009...
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