I've recently started reading my new book called the Sign of Four which has been good so far. I can't say that it's a great book since I just started reading but I can tell why the author is such a famous writer, his way of writing is completely different to what I have ever read. Arthur Conan Doyle is a perfectionist when writing and explaining things, and he does it in a very detailed way. That's all I can say so far. The book starts introducing the first main characters, Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson. Holmes is a outstanding detective who manages to solve the hardest of problems and mysteries through the most unorthodox ways imagined, while Watson is a very well known doctor in London since he is one of the best, he is Holmes's assistant and narrates the whole book through his perspective. Both live in a house located in Baker street, London were they receive their troubled clients, with unusual and complex cases.
QUOTES
“Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. I can dispense then with artificial stimulants.”
Sherlock Holmes believes that life itself is boring and mediocre, including the people that surround his reality. This is why he goes to cocaine because it makes life less boring and more exciting in an intellectual way, though when he has a case and especially a complex one he quits using drugs until the case is solved. It is interesting, I think to view life that way, I also like it more if I'm being under a challenge.
CONCLUSION
To end, I believe the book has been interesting so far, I can't wait what the case is going to be about, how complex it will be and what new characters will appear. GREAT beginning until now.
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