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[EndOfTheEarth]

Besides posting on here and replying to this thread. Original credit for this goes back to Fate and Nathan on MX.

[nathan_p]

I got introduced at age six via a collection that used to be my great-grandad's. And I've been hooked ever since :D

Mmkay, rec list of the stories I personally liked the most:

_A Study in Scarlet_ and _The Hound of the Baskervilles_. Both novels, but not terribly long. Read _A Study In Scarlet_ first, as it is the first Holmes story.

"The Final Problem", "The Adventure of the Dancing Men", "The Adventure of the Dying Detective", "The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle", "Silver Blaze", "The Musgrave Ritual", "The Adventure of the Speckled Band", "The Adventure of Black Peter", "The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton", "The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb", "The Adventure of the Abbey Grange", "The Adventure of the Devil's Foot", "The Greek Interpreter", "The Adventure of the Empty House", and "His Last Bow". All short stories, not very long at all.

edit: And here is a post containing links to some of the stories on Project Gutenberg.

[Captain 'EgWa' Terror]

The Speckled Band annoyed me, and typically it's the one my English teacher is making me write an essay on. I liked Silver Blaze and the Dying Detective, and the Man with the Twisted Lip.

My collection is new-ish, but it's a huge hardback with gold-edged pages. It's nice.

[nathan_p]

Speckled Band was... interesting. I'm not sure why I liked it >.>

;_; I have three soon to be two collections. One is pretty and has illustrations but I never touch it, one is small and rather old, and the other one, my favorite, is falling to bits.

[Captain 'EgWa' Terror]

It was so unbelievable that... yeah, it just annoyed me. :/

Old books are great. I have an old Ripley's Believe it or Not from the 1950s that my granddad gave me, and a leather-bound Jane Eyre. Both are crumbling, but I love them..

[nathan_p]

I was like seven when I read it for the first time, so nostalgia probably accounts for some of it. 'S a pretty ridiculous story, though.

God, I know :3 I don't have any superold books, though. (Albeit I have a really nice book about Holmes's London that smells awesome.)

[Captain 'EgWa' Terror]

Yuss.

Smells awesome how?
*has been to 221B Baker Street* *was insanely excited and took photos*

[nathan_p]

There's one story I cracked up once though while reading a summary of it. Something involving like "Why is Holmes out of character, you ask? Because Sherlock Holmes is high."

Just... that awesome old-book smell <3

I passed up going there when I was in London. I'll never forgive myself ._.

[Captain 'EgWa' Terror]

LOL. xDD

Nicee (:

It's not that special-looking... just made me have a huge fangirl moment.

[nathan_p]

Yeah.

Even though everyone looks at me weird when I sniff books ._.;;

Yeah... it's just like... ten years of fangirlism, and I passed it up. God.

[Captain 'EgWa' Terror]

I just love the smell of books in general. It's like, when I go into bookshops I go into a trance or something. Sadly I'm not even kidding... Especially really nice bookshops. There a really great Waterstones near where I live, in an old bank, and it looks like Gringotts or something, and there's this amazing staircase... yeah, I'll just shut up.

I guess. But of all the things to do in London, it's not top of the list. Still, pretty annoying for you I guess.

[nathan_p]

I had to be dragged out of the Strand bookstore in New York when we went. God. So many books :D

In retrospect, very :\

[Captain 'EgWa' Terror]

Oh my. *adds to list of things to see in New York*