A good story - not at the top of my favorite list, but solid and no deaths.
What I found really thought provoking was Watson and the bachelor not knowing what "jumping a claim" meant. It got me thinking about all of the little bits of information and phrases that most consider common knowledge that would have seemed so new and foreign at that time. Of course, SACD is always talking about hansoms, and I had no idea what they were until I googled them. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hansom_cab
I figured hat the bride must have picked something up with her bouquet, but I didn't get as far a Holmes did with my assumptions. Slowly, slowly I'm learning to pick up on the clues that SACD gives us.
I agree, a good story but doesn't qualify to be on the "favorites" list.
Still a rather weak female character. I am waiting for another strong female character to show up in one of these stories!
I did not get to the understanding that the bride was already married, but I did figure it was something to do with the man at the wedding. I had guessed that he was her lover and she ran off with him to escape her marriage. Close, but no cigar...
I rather liked the two women in Hound, L.L. and Beryl, though they both showed a heavy reliance on the men in their lives. However, I think they both came through with a very remarkable strength of character at the end. Do you think this was typical of real women of the day, or that SACD paints them to be more submissive than actuality?
I do, however, agree with his never having Holmes in a relationship. I don't think many women would "adapt" to his eccentric behaviour. Meaning, of course, that I probably never would have put up with him.
A most true quotation from Chapter 13 of Hound, on a sister's weeping from the death of her criminally insane brother: "Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him."
I've just started reading Hound and am only a few chapters in.
I think women were more submissive then, as they had few other alternatives.
While I think there might be a like-minded woman that could put up with Holmes eccentricities, Holmes himself seems as though he would have little patience to be in a romantic relationship. He seems to wrapped up in his own mind and cases to have time or will to consider someone else. I find it remarkable that he keeps inviting Watson to work cases, but then Watson IS recording Holmes' work...
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A good story - not at the top of my favorite list, but solid and no deaths.
What I found really thought provoking was Watson and the bachelor not knowing what "jumping a claim" meant. It got me thinking about all of the little bits of information and phrases that most consider common knowledge that would have seemed so new and foreign at that time. Of course, SACD is always talking about hansoms, and I had no idea what they were until I googled them.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hansom_cab
I figured hat the bride must have picked something up with her bouquet, but I didn't get as far a Holmes did with my assumptions. Slowly, slowly I'm learning to pick up on the clues that SACD gives us.
I agree, a good story but doesn't qualify to be on the "favorites" list.
Still a rather weak female character. I am waiting for another strong female character to show up in one of these stories!
I did not get to the understanding that the bride was already married, but I did figure it was something to do with the man at the wedding. I had guessed that he was her lover and she ran off with him to escape her marriage. Close, but no cigar...
I rather liked the two women in Hound, L.L. and Beryl, though they both showed a heavy reliance on the men in their lives. However, I think they both came through with a very remarkable strength of character at the end. Do you think this was typical of real women of the day, or that SACD paints them to be more submissive than actuality?
I do, however, agree with his never having Holmes in a relationship. I don't think many women would "adapt" to his eccentric behaviour. Meaning, of course, that I probably never would have put up with him.
A most true quotation from Chapter 13 of Hound, on a sister's weeping from the death of her criminally insane brother:
"Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him."
I've just started reading Hound and am only a few chapters in.
I think women were more submissive then, as they had few other alternatives.
While I think there might be a like-minded woman that could put up with Holmes eccentricities, Holmes himself seems as though he would have little patience to be in a romantic relationship. He seems to wrapped up in his own mind and cases to have time or will to consider someone else. I find it remarkable that he keeps inviting Watson to work cases, but then Watson IS recording Holmes' work...
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