 I think I said slayanna and I'm here today to talk about a study in scarlet. I've never read any Sherlock Holmes before and I don't know exactly why I decided to do that. I guess the get shit done readathon. I was panicking about getting through the challenges and I was like Lord of the Rings counts for like a bunch of different ones of these so I think I officially slated it as I decided to like shift things around and I was like I'll read this for my classic because it's actually really short which I also didn't realize for some reason I imagined Sherlock Holmes books to be like tomes which I mean I was clearly wrong so yeah I have seen like nearly every adaptation there is of Sherlock Holmes. I love, I think I talked about this in my like chatty get ready with me video that when I'm watching movies and TV shows I watch like mainly who done it. I love that but I don't really read them. I don't, the few times I have I haven't, that's not true. I grew up reading exclusively Nancy Drew. Like I pretty much read nothing by Nancy Drew until I discovered Harry Potter. But I didn't care for Poirot when I read Poirot and I love all the adaptations of Poirot like all, I've seen like all the David Souchet ones. I've seen all the Marbles. I've seen all of Sherlock Holmes. I've seen pretty much any Agatha Christie adaptation there is. I love Wilkie Collins like The Woman in White and The Moonstone, stuff like that. So I love that kind of stuff but I don't read it. And I guess I always imagined Sherlock Holmes to be really dry, really boring and really long and I don't, I don't know again why I decided now to be like oh I was watching re-watching Sherlock and I thought to myself for some reason that I want to know what the books actually like. So I read A Study in Scarlet. And I actually, I read it on Kindle not on this paper copy which is relevant because there's a part in it where I genuinely was concerned that I had got like a weird shitty villagey copy because it all of a sudden like the story is just like about something else for like a huge chunk of it. And I was just like is this still A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle? Because what is this? What is going on right here? What is this doing here? But all that to say, I did really super enjoy it a lot more than I thought I would. And the character of Sherlock Holmes, he's not like he's portrayed in like any adaptation which is shocking to me because obviously there's a, there is a lot of variety in the adaptations and in the portrayals and interpretations of the character. From the black and white ones with Basil Rathbone which I have seen all of. I'm telling you I love who Dunhands. To the various BBC ones like the guy for my fair lady. He was in like a made for TV, like a few made for TV ones. Rupert Everett played him. I think Michael Cain played him. Obviously most recently Benedict Cumberbatch has played him. Obviously also Robert Downey Jr. There's a very, there's a big variety in terms of who's played him and how they've chosen to interpret the character. But one thing that's kind of carried throughout is that he is kind of an aloof asshole and like really condescending and he is. But in the book he honestly struck me a lot more as being like the doctor in Doctor Who or Jacoby in Jacoby. There's a fun quality, a quirky quality, a self-deprecating quality to Sherlock. And yes self-deprecating I stand by that because he is snobby and he is very, he's very confident in his own abilities. But he also doesn't care that much about not getting credit for it. He just, he's like it's enough for him to know that he got it right and that he knows more than everybody else. But he's not cruel. He really didn't come off as cruel to me. Like it's just like he loves the puzzle of it and having the puzzle is enough for him. He doesn't care that he doesn't get credit for it. And for you know in the public at large or the detectives who work for the police they get credit for it. He doesn't care. He's just like I know more than you and I don't need anyone else to like boost my ego because my ego is just fine. Which have reminded me a lot more of the doctor in Doctor Who. Who's not going around being cruel and insulting people and he doesn't really care that no one knows that he's saving the world because exciting, interesting mystery of it all is enough for him. Exciting new places and new worlds and it's exciting for him. And then he is smarter than everyone. He does make the doctor in Doctor Who makes comments about people being dumb all the time about how they have these tiny brains and they're like they don't, they're not on his level but he's also not mean about it. He's just like it's not your fault you're not on my level. Like you couldn't be. You're not born with this level. So I was surprised by how much I liked the character. That's I guess another reason why I didn't really want to read it because I was like I don't really want to read a dry dusty tome about a jerk you know what I mean? Yeah he's really clever but you know and he was actually quite likable and charming in a really eccentric way. I feel like he had a good like repartee and banter with Watson and yeah I just I liked him a lot more than I thought I would. And then yeah then all of a sudden we go to the American West and we're reading about Mormons for like a third of the book and I was like what? And of course that does all tie into it so I would say like obviously as a modern reader some other tie-in to like make the reader aware that this is going on that this does tie in might be good because it doesn't. It's just like like Sherlock Holmes has like figured it out and he's like he's been refusing to offer information because he's like nope not ready yet and then finally they kind of catch the guy who no one thought was the guy and he's like okay we've caught him so now whatever questions you have now I'll answer whatever you want to know. And then all of a sudden we cut to Mormons in Utah for like a third of the book and I was like I'm when I was a little worried that again that I had a janky kindle addition I was like this gets placed with a different book is this not a study in scarlet or a study in scarlet anymore then I kept going and I was like this is probably back story this is probably leading somewhere and it does and it is part of it and it's meant to be there but I was like what? Sherlock was about to tell us everything and now we're with Mormons in Utah what? But even that part I mean like the thing that convinced me also that I didn't have a glitchy copy was that Ser Arthur Conan Doyle has a really distinct uh authorial voice which was present still with the Mormons in Utah and I was like this feels like it's still written by Ser Arthur Conan Doyle his style is here so this must be related this must be tied in somehow and obviously it was and then it all wrapped up and it was over and it wasn't like unnecessarily dragging which is what I associate with a lot of older books because everyone was just wordier and longer and they were paid by the page and were by the word or whatever so like even I love uh Duma but a lot of Duma was really long and Dickens is really long because of that so I associate old books with just being needlessly long and wordy and Sherlock Holmes was not it got to the point it had told you the key ingredients told you the key people it very quickly almost in it's nothing like Neil Gaiman but I always praise people and to compare them to Neil Gaiman when they can effectively paint the portrait of a character in very few words Neil Gaiman his one of the strongest parts of his writing he's obviously great at story and and building worlds and interesting magic and stuff but one of the things that I think is the most amazing about Neil Gaiman's writing is his brevity the the short amount of words in which he's able to paint a complete portrait of a place situation of a magic of a people and so here to the fact that Ser Arthur Conan Doyle in very few words you you're like I get I can see Sherlock I get who Watson is I get this mystery all these like side characters I'm picturing them to like it's it's very concisely but effectively describing everything to where you don't have time to be bored and even like the minor characters that are now all backstory that you're never going to really need to know about again because it's all just tied to this one case so like for future Sherlock Holmes stories you don't need to have established who these Mormons are but even that was told in a way that you really got quickly invested in these Mormons in Utah and in their story and for like a hot minute there I forgot I was reading a Sherlock Holmes book and I was just invested in them so it's just well written so I guess it's classic for a reason I shouldn't be surprised but having read a lot of classics I am sometimes bored out of my mind so it is refreshing when a classic is actually it's not just like I can see why this is a classic but that wasn't fun this was a lot of fun to read and I enjoyed it and I have since purchased one of those like giant collected works of collected Sherlock Holmes mysteries or whatever so you play on right on through that soonish I hope so yeah let me know the comments down below if you've ever read any of the actual Sherlock Holmes stories if you like me have only ever seen the adaptations or if you haven't seen either ever and you're here because you're like what is this Sherlock Holmes that you speak of please tell me more then uh I feel like I didn't explain at all who Sherlock Holmes is and this was a terrible video for you but let me know whenever you want to let me know I post videos on Saturdays sometimes Wednesdays so like and subscribe and I'll see you when I see you bye