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Thorneycroft Huxtable replied to the topic “Once more unto the breach, dear friends” in the forum St. James’s Hall 4 years, 7 months ago
I get that and agree that everyone should be treated with respect in that regard, but I’m confused how the BSJ was disrespectful. Was it something in that article?
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Thorneycroft Huxtable replied to the topic “Once more unto the breach, dear friends” in the forum St. James’s Hall 4 years, 7 months ago
I am confused by what started the issue here. How did a pronoun cause so much trouble?
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Thorneycroft Huxtable replied to the topic Moriarty Superior Career Criminal; Others May Take a Seat in the forum Arthur Conan Doyle 5 years, 3 months ago
I finished The Napoleon of Crime today and really enjoyed it. For anyone that’s interested in the biography of a master criminal, it’s worth a definite read. The author discusses at length Adam Worth’s influence on Moriarty, he also claims that Baron Gruner was based off of the master criminal, which I found to be a bit of a stretch.
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Thorneycroft Huxtable started the topic The Overuse of Irene Adler in the forum Television 5 years, 3 months ago
I got into a debate on Twitter tonight about Irene Adler. My view is that the character has been used too much in recent adaptations. I don’t dislike Irene, but I feel like other female characters such as Kitty Winter and Violet Smith to name a few should be put into stories instead of Irene. My big hang up with Irene being used all the time is…[Read more]
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Thorneycroft Huxtable started the topic The Return in the forum A Study in Scarlet 5 years, 3 months ago
The address of 221B was in Holmes’ advertisement about the missing wedding ring when Jefferson Hope dodged Holmes’ first trap. If Hope is smart enough to do that, surely he would be smart enough to recognize that same address popping up a second time in such a short span, especially with the intimate knowledge of streets and addresses that London…[Read more]
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Thorneycroft Huxtable replied to the topic Peter Beagle's "Mr. Sigerson" in the forum Books and Short Stories 5 years, 4 months ago
Yes! There are so many poorly written pastiches out there, good ones are always worth hearing about.
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Thorneycroft Huxtable replied to the topic SPEC in the forum Individual Short Stories 5 years, 4 months ago
I found a play from a Scholaatic magazine that adapted Spec. The copyright was a little iffy, so I found a play version of The Red Headed League to take its place next year.
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Thorneycroft Huxtable replied to the topic SPEC in the forum Individual Short Stories 5 years, 4 months ago
It’s definitely the snake. Roylott and Holmes bending the poker was cool for them too. When we did the play, kids fought over who got to be Roylott because they wanted to be a dead guy with a snake on their head.
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Thorneycroft Huxtable replied to the topic SPEC in the forum Individual Short Stories 5 years, 4 months ago
We do brief overviews of Spec, blue carbuncle, red headed league and silver blaze on the first day. We spend a day each on speckled band, blue carbuncle, copper beeches, and red headed league. And then the kids perform plays of blue carbumcle and speckled band. We talk about literary elements and media representations with each one and cap it off…[Read more]
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Thorneycroft Huxtable replied to the topic SPEC in the forum Individual Short Stories 5 years, 5 months ago
The whole unsnakey behavior can ruin the story. I think it’s a testament to how good of a story it truly is that most of us are able to look past it and enjoy the story as a whole. When I taught Sherlock Holmes to my fifth graders in November, The Speckled Band was the favorite story we read for most of them.
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Thorneycroft Huxtable replied to the topic Moriarty Superior Career Criminal; Others May Take a Seat in the forum Arthur Conan Doyle 5 years, 5 months ago
Great article. As soon as I finished it, I bought the biography of Adam Worth off of ebay.
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Thorneycroft Huxtable replied to the topic SPEC in the forum Individual Short Stories 5 years, 5 months ago
Things like the made up snake make me feel like ACD was a lazy writer. I get not caring about the continuity because he felt that Holmes stories were beneath him, but do some research! Once I learned that a carbuncle couldn’t be blue, sloppy mistakes like the swamp adder really started to get to me.
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Thorneycroft Huxtable started the topic Hello in the forum New Suspects 5 years, 5 months ago
My name is Rob. I am somewhat new to the Sherlockian community, though I’ve been a fan of Holmes for years, as my bookshelves can attest to. I am a fifth grade teacher, hence the username. Not too sure what else to add other than I’m looking forward to checking this out!
