Motivation
As a young kid I was an avid reader. I used to read a lot of books before I came to college, after which the habit died. I recently decided that this lack of reading had gone on long enough, and that I would start reading again. And by reading, I don’t mean RSS feeds, blog posts, magazine and newspaper articles, etc. (which I do plenty of). I mean books. Preferably, good books. So, I set about trying to decide what book I would read first. The Harry Potter books, though phenomenal, and in my opinion the best books ever written, didn’t count because I’ve read them all more times than any one person should, and I never really stopped re-reading them. I then came across the absolutely brilliant British TV series Sherlock. Having watched the series and being totally drawn into it, it occurred to me that I hadn’t ever read the original texts of all the Sherlock Holmes books as written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Therefore, I decided that I would finally get around to reading all the Sherlock Holmes stories in chronological order.
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