Sherlock Holmes Was: [Re: [SCA-cooks] OT: Harry Potter]

[Jeanne Papanastasiou]

Try Umberto Eco's "In the Name of the Rose."  BOY was that hard to get
through!  Had to read it in college.  BLAH!  Good story, movie sucked, but
Sean Connery was worth the $$!

Soffya Appollonia Tudja
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Argent, a patriarchal cross between three crescent gules on a chief sable
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[mailto:sca-cooks-admin at ansteorra.org]On Behalf Of Terry Decker
Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2003 5:28 AM
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Subject: Re: Sherlock Holmes Was: [Re: [Sca-cooks] OT: Harry Potter]


Dumas has the same problem.  Most American editions abridge The Three
Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo.  I have an unabridged edition of
the latter from my grandmother's library, 1100+ pages of very fine print.
Compared to the intracacies of the unabridged version, the abridged versions
read like a plot outline of a high school paper.

Bear


>And they wonder why there's so little interest in reading... This is by no
>means new BTW... I was an adult (Well, seventeen) before I found out about
>Holmes' use of "The Seven Percent Solution", his firing his pistol in his
>rooms, and things like that, and I'm in my mid forties. Since then I've
gone
>back and read a LOT of things I read as a child, but in the unabridged
>versions. Good reason to avoid booksales at children's libraries IMO...
>unless you're looking specifically for kids books, and I mean Doctor Suess.
>
>Corwyn


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