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1585189 No.1585189 [Reply] [Original]

Just read "The Final Problem", the Sherlock Holmes short story. What the fuck was this shit? It started with the bad guy already in Holmes' clutches and didn't even explain how he managed to do so, then they both 'died'. It basically went like so: "There's a really, really smart guy after me let's go to Europe." "OK." Then they fell off a cliff. The end.

Did the author have a stroke before finishing the story entirely or something?

>> No.1585193

Arthur Conan Doyle was the Ayn rand of his generation.

>> No.1585200
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Doyle: "Nah I'm going to write other stuff. You die now Holmes."

He just got fed up with writing for the one character over and over, and so killed him as abruptly as possible.

>> No.1585702

So it was just general laziness?

>> No.1587454

I heard he was getting annoyed with the character or something... Dunno 4 shoor, tho, and too lazy now to research properly, so bampin'.

>> No.1587483

Doyle got pissed at how popular his character had become, so he decided to kill him off just to displease the fans.

Wasn't there a day of mourning for him even? Either way it only suceeded in making Doyle more angry.

>> No.1587519

Doyle didn't want to write anymore Sherlock Holmes.

He eventually wrote more-- turns out Sherlock faked his death.

>> No.1588320 [DELETED] 

yes

>> No.1588462

Hey remember when Michael Chabon wrote that Sherlock Holmes Holocaust fanfic The Final Solution? Isn't that something a bright ninth-grader would do, not a grown adult who gets published in the Paris Review?

>> No.1588472

OP should read the Moriarty series by John Gardner.

>> No.1588504

>>1588462
What the? Where can I read this?

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>>1588504
at barnes and noble i guess

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>>1588520
Jay Ryan!

>> No.1588607

I heard that the Queen herself ordered Doyle to bring Sherlock Holmes back to life.

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>>1585193
shut up, you.

>> No.1589967

>>1588520
>Implying there are Barnes and Nobles' in the country that I live in.

>> No.1590020

>>1589967
Amazon homie, I remember it being like 150 pages so it can't be that expensive

>> No.1590064

>>1588462
"...I read for entertainment, and I write to entertain. Period."
-Michael Chabon

>> No.1591117

>>1590064
He's still a tool.

>> No.1592362 [DELETED] 

kake

>> No.1592377

Conan doyle hated Holmes at this stage, and just wanted him dead. He probably didn't think about much other than getting the cheque.