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Is it true he just does the story outlines now and leaves it to a team of writers to actually write the book?

Another movie great gone not many left these days

That would be the Mord Sith,

OK I've read 1001. Aesop’s Fables – Aesopus 996. The Thousand and One Nights – Anonymous 992. Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 991. The Pilgrim’s Progress – John Bunyan 1700s 987. Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe 985. Moll Flanders – Daniel Defoe 983. Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift 976. Tom Jones – Henry Fielding 975. Fanny Hill – John Cleland 1800s 940. Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen 935. Rob Roy – Sir Walter Scott 931. Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 930. Ivanhoe – Sir Walter Scott 925. Last of the Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper 922. The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo 918. Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens 917. The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby – Charles Dickens 916. The Fall of the House of Usher – Edgar Allan Poe 913. A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens 911. The Pit and the Pendulum – Edgar Allan Poe 908. The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas 906. The Count of Monte-Cristo – Alexandre Dumas 896. Moby-Dick – Herman Melville 873. Les Misérables – Victor Hugo 868. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll 867. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky 866. Journey to the Centre of the Earth – Jules Verne 861. The Idiot – Fyodor Dostoevsky 857. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy 854. Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There – Lewis Carroll 835. Ben-Hur – Lew Wallace 831. Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson 825. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain 823. King Solomon’s Mines – H. Rider Haggard 822. Kidnapped – Robert Louis Stevenson 820. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson 819. She – H. Rider Haggard 809. The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde 804. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 797. The Time Machine – H.G. Wells 796. The Island of Dr. Moreau – H.G. Wells 794. Dracula – Bram Stoker 791. The Invisible Man – H.G. Wells 790. The War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells 1900s 785. Lord Jim – Joseph Conrad 781. The Hound of the Baskervilles – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 780. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad 777. The Riddle of the Sands – Erskine Childers 773. Nostromo – Joseph Conrad 766. The Secret Agent – Joseph Conrad 747. Tarzan of the Apes – Edgar Rice Burroughs 743. The Thirty-Nine Steps – John Buchan 699. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald 695. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd – Agatha Christie 689. The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway 667. All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque 664. Red Harvest – Dashiell Hammett 663. A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway 660. The Maltese Falcon – Dashiell Hammett 652. The Thin Man – Dashiell Hammett 649. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley 639. Thank You, Jeeves – P.G. Wodehouse 623. At the Mountains of Madness – H.P. Lovecraft 610. The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien 599. The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler 564. Animal Farm – George Orwell 547. Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell 539. I, Robot – Isaac Asimov 535. The Third Man – Graham Greene 529. The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger 526. Day of the Triffids – John Wyndham 518. Casino Royale – Ian Fleming 511. The Long Goodbye – Raymond Chandler 496. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov 495. The Talented Mr. Ripley – Patricia Highsmith 494. The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien 484. On the Road – Jack Kerouac 481. The Midwich Cuckoos – John Wyndham 470. A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute 451. Catch-22 – Joseph Heller 437. A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess 430. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold – John Le Carré 396. Chocky – John Wyndham 390. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – Philip K. Dick 389. 2001: A Space Odyssey – Arthur C. Clarke 379. The Godfather – Mario Puzo 358. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S. Thompson 339. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – John Le Carré 301. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams 295. Smiley’s People – John Le Carré 258. Neuromancer – William Gibson 249. Dictionary of the Khazars – Milorad Pavi? 247. Hawksmoor – Peter Ackroyd 227. Watchmen – Alan Moore & David Gibbons 219. The New York Trilogy – Paul Auster 218. The Bonfire of the Vanities – Tom Wolfe 210. Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency – Douglas Adams 209. The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul – Douglas Adams 203. The Satanic Verses – Salman Rushdie 200. Foucault’s Pendulum – Umberto Eco Mmmm got some reading to do

Also on Kindle, got it ready to read. I admit the hardback looks better

Difference is Bell was real Holmes is fiction Sir Arthur had an interesting life himself, this is worth a read http://www.amazon.co.uk/Life-Sir-Arthur-Conan-Doyle/dp/0786712341/ref=sr_1_42?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1298039390&sr=1-42

I always wanted to know more about Edward, even maybe an Edward spin off novel.

Nest

Off the top of my head I would guess Kendal Mint cake, Marmite, and have After eights changed? I'm sure a lot of smaller more traditional brands haven't changed in years.

Big Yellow storage works for me

Well as I think Conan Doyle pointed out himself, Holmes made these deductions in seconds whereas Doyle as a writer had a little longer to come up with them. As for deductions in real life you may want to read up on Joseph Bell, JP, DL, FRCS who Doyle worked for as a clerk at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.

Add me as well please

I don't know which Holmes stories you have read but I don't remember Holmes chasing women when he had no crimes to solve. As for the question, I think the 'perfect' Hero is no more, all the heroes today seem to be more rooted in reality (though some have deeper roots than other) with human flaws and defects in fact it is the overcoming of their flaws etc which is the very thing which makes a modern character a hero.

The holes are the best bit. I always leave them until last.

Is the story in any way connected to the film about Sherlock and Jack, Murder by Decree wasn't it? Oh has anyone read The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures at all? It's been on my to buy list for a while now.

Always sad to see bookshops close but I must admit I hadn't even heard of them until now.

How about the Bryant and May books by Christopher Fowler, not only are these books set in London but they have lots of little details about the obscure history of the city.

The first few aren't that bad but after a few books they do seem to end up as soft porn novels.

I am not a big reader of graphic novels but I can really recommend those, if the TV series follows the story it is going to be great.

I just found a Folio edition of Chekov's The shooting party on a stall at our local market for £5, not one of his better books but being a folio book it looks good on the shelf. Also I found these http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/search/ref=sr_st?keywords=folio+society+books&qid=1289731114&rh=n%3A266239%2Ck%3Afolio+society+books&sort=price however just being able to order one at the touch of a button takes away the pleasure of finding one tucked away in a second hand book stall/store.

Maybe 'they' said that to let the public think 'they' have everything under control? Removes conspiracy hat and relaxes.

Really enjoyed episode one, and it seems to be following the original quite closely. Did seem a little odd to see two English actors talking to each other with American accents. I can understand why Andrew Lincoln changed his name, Andrew Clutterbuck has just not got the right ring about it.

This year I bought my daughters a cheap cd I saw in the supermarket called Halloween Hits Ghostbusters - Ray Parker Jnr Monster Mash - Bobby 'Boris' Pickett & The Crypt-Kickers Somebody's Watching Me - Rockwell Amityville (The House on The Hill) - Lovebug Starski A Nightmare On My Street - DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince Cry Wolf - A-Ha People Are Strange - Echo & The Bunnymen Werewolves Of London - Warren Zevon (You're The) Devil in Disguise - Elvis Presley Ghost Riders In The Sky - Johnny Cash Feed My Frankenstein - Alice Cooper Demons - Super Furry Animals Evil Woman - ELO Black Magic Woman - Santana Haunted House - Jumpin' Gene Simmons The Time Warp - Damian The Devil Went Down To Georgia - Charlie Daniels Band (Don't Fear) The Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult. Some classics and some real horrors there.

So the Wayne Rooney circus rumbles on. http://vladdsviewoftheworld.blogspot.com/2010/10/join-city-and-youre-dead.html