The Hound of the Baskervilles is number 10 on NPR’s 100 Best Killer Thrillers list. What I want to know is why? I hated it! I was bored and uninterested the whole way through, thank goodness it is a really, really short book. Even though it is less than 200 pages, and I thoroughly expected to finish it in a day, it took me nearly 3. I could not stay with it, in fact I almost put it down and just skipped it completely. In all the years that I have been reading with abandon I have never been interested in reading a Sherlock Holmes mystery. And, no, it is not because it is a classic, I have read plenty of classics and have loved many of them. It was just thoroughly bland. I know there must be many people who would not agree with me , this is indicated by its place on the list. Oh, well, I can say I have read it, and now I know I will never read another.
I am now on my 3rd from the list and hope to write about that one here soon too.
Book borrowed from the library.
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