I didn't read these stories in order. Normally I would have, but I saved Holmes Sherlock for last. I'm a huge Sherlock Holmes fan, and lately there's been something of a resurgence in the character in pop culture (if you haven't seen BBC's "Sherlock" stop what you're doing right now and go watch it. Seriously). I was hoping that this story would play off the nature of his name being backwards and have some sort of bizarro Sherlock in some crazy world and I figured I would be enthralled by it.
You can imagine my disappointment.
"Holmes Sherlock" was EASILY my least favorite work this week, likely because of the hype I'd given it. The story was boring and predictable and there didn't seem to be a point to it at all, other than some weak attempts at satire in a few places.
The only thing I can say about it is that in a way, it was a bizarro-Sherlock: an uninteresting detective who solves uninteresting cases about uninteresting people with very little intrigue, adventure, or mystery.
Even bizarro-Watson bored me.
Here's hoping there's some deeper meaning that's gone right over my head which can validate this story somehow, because otherwise it took me 30 minutes to read that story and write this post, and I'll never get that time back.
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