For fanfic purposes, of course -- fanfic reading, in this case. The third installment of ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
violsva's awesome Sherlock Holmes series The Landlady was out, and I had so much fun comparing the first two with the original canon, I thought I'd refresh my memory first this time.
This led to two realizations!
The first is that my memory for books I read when I was a kid is pretty terrible.
( A thing I'd totally forgotten )
( A thing I was probably happier forgetting )
( The one thing I did remember with perfect clarity )
Which is probably a pretty accurate snapshot of what I did and did not get out of Sherlock Holmes as a kid, yeah.
And as an adult? Given that my second realization is that I findviolsva's fic rather more enjoyable than I do Arthur Conan Doyle's stories, it appears that what I now get out of Sherlock Holmes is background for appreciating excellent fanfic.
violsva's awesome Sherlock Holmes series The Landlady was out, and I had so much fun comparing the first two with the original canon, I thought I'd refresh my memory first this time.This led to two realizations!
The first is that my memory for books I read when I was a kid is pretty terrible.
( A thing I'd totally forgotten )
( A thing I was probably happier forgetting )
( The one thing I did remember with perfect clarity )
Which is probably a pretty accurate snapshot of what I did and did not get out of Sherlock Holmes as a kid, yeah.
And as an adult? Given that my second realization is that I find
violsva's fic rather more enjoyable than I do Arthur Conan Doyle's stories, it appears that what I now get out of Sherlock Holmes is background for appreciating excellent fanfic.
