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Professor Moriarty: The Hound Of The D'Urbervilles (2011)

by Kim Newman(Favorite Author)

4.11 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0857682830 (ISBN13: 9780857682833)

languge

English

genre

Horror

publisher

Titan Books

review 1: I loved this book before I'd even read it, just because of how beautifully it extends the canon of the Holmes universe. However, while I really did enjoy reading it, it was almost as if I enjoyed reading simply because of the information I knew it would give me. There were times when I got lost in it, but it was a bit hard to get through, and it went a bit slow (probably due to its size, though; I have a hard time estimating correctly how long something will take to get through.) Sometimes I would find myself reading passages so riddled with allusions I had no idea what was going on, but the language and general beauty of the words fitting together was so seductive and convincing that I kept reading. Moran isn't a man I would want to bring home to my parents, but he's cert... moreainly a wonderful storyteller.
review 2: Definitely weird. Moriarty and Colonel Sebastian "Basher" Moran are described as the 'twisted evil twins' of Holmes and Watson. This is a book about their crime ring, complete with more references to books set in the C19th than I can even name, told in the format of Basher's memoirs, discovered in a bank vault when the bank manager is arrested in 2008 for being a crook, and calls in a historian from their cell to edit and publish the material under threat of pet-maiming. Honestly, there is no way I can even try to review the plot of this one! It was convoluted, crazy and very creative. I liked it, and would definitely recommend it if you're interested in strange books. less

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