Le Chien Des Baskerville : Une Histoire Illustrée De Sherlock Holmes (2009) - Plot & Excerpts
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Hound of Baskervilles, adapted into a graphic novel by Ian Edington is a pleasurable read. Coupled with I.N.J. Culbard’s amusing illustrations, the novel manages to be both entertaining and add to the mystique of Sherlock Holmes.Sherlock Holmes is a delightful character because he is not only intelligent, but hyper aware of all that goes on around him. He seems to have superhero qualities, but in reality, he is just an extraordinary human, better than most of us, but not because he has been exposed to radiation or aliens. Take, for example, how he schools Watson on the left behind cane at the beginning of the story. Watson takes several guesses to the owner of the cane, each of which Holmes contradicts him on, and proves to be correct.To turn Holmes’s adventures into a graphic novel only makes sense—the wealth of facial expressions available to an artist like Culbard adds considerably to the story. There is a bit more humor, too, added to the fallibility of humans. At the core of Holmes is his ability to figure out humans better than they can figure themselves out. I randomly picked up The Hound of the Baskervilles when it was on display at the library. I've never really read a graphic novel, so I wasn't sure what to expect. To my surprise, I actually liked it.I realize that I'm really late to the graphic novel game, but I just like the visualization of the story. The only thing was... after I read it (which only took about 2 hours total), I didn't feel like I really accomplished reading anything. Yeah, I got the story, but my brain wasn't engaged in the same way that it is when I'm reading a text-only book. I guess it just felt more like passive-aggressive reading. But like I said, I did like it, and I'll definitely read more graphic novels in the future.
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