tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8529327841739785142.post7110958897286685135..comments2023-11-02T05:15:06.723-07:00Comments on The Consulting Detective: The Good, the Bad and the Just Plain Ugly: Creative Liberty Gone Too FarNick Cardillohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12941093024318184603noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8529327841739785142.post-87244993885225881072013-03-05T16:04:22.850-08:002013-03-05T16:04:22.850-08:00The book you described sounds so bad, I couldn'...The book you described sounds so bad, I couldn't help but almost want to read it just to see how dreadful it was. But then I remembered that life is far too short to read bad books. <br /><br />In retrospect, I am probably lucky in the fact that most of the pastiches I have read are good (or at least enjoyable). I am very picky when it comes to my pastiches and the only real reason I even bought "Sherlock Holmes: War of the Worlds" was to complete my collection of "The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" series released by Titan Books. Nick Cardillohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12941093024318184603noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8529327841739785142.post-52388780180777274192013-03-05T14:18:55.681-08:002013-03-05T14:18:55.681-08:00The challenge with a Sherlockian pastiche is to cr...The challenge with a Sherlockian pastiche is to create something original without straying too far from the source material. You want everything to remain compatible with the original stories, without simply rehashing them.<br /><br />But you, my friend, have gone off lightly. You've obviously never read the book where Holmes travels in the Canadian west. The book is so bad that it literally reads like a fictionalized history textbook... it's even illustrated with the same historical paintings/photographs that my Grade 7 history textbooks used!!! But as though that weren't enough, it pretends that during the Great Hiatus, Holmes wasn't really pretending to be dead. No, he and Doc Watson were out in Canada, chillin' with the Indians -- I mean, Native Americans, for we must be Politically Correct my dear Watson! -- and they keep introducing themselves as SHERLOCK HOLMES AND DOCTOR WATSON... with Colonel Moran potentially behind every street corner with an air-gun! And with the whole world thinking Holmes is dead?????? Aaaaaargh! It's gotten into my brain and replaced it with Stupid!<br /><br />Me go eat cracker now.<br /><br />But seriously, I sympathise with your rant. I'm guessing that about 1/2 the Holmes pastiches I read in the past were plain shite and I don't remember most of them. Because the character is basically public domain now, it seems that the crappy pastiches keep growing while the good pastiches get fewer and fewer...Patrickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01844617192737950378noreply@blogger.com