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PostSubject: The Seven Percent Solution   Tue Aug 04, 2009 10:43 am
I read this addition to the Holmes mythos a few months ago, and enjoyed it quite a bit. I don't want to post any spoilers, so I'll just say that the book has Holmes teaming up with Freud (yeah, that one) in a case.

Has anyone else read this? If so, did you enjoy it?
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PostSubject: Re: The Seven Percent Solution   Tue Aug 04, 2009 2:36 pm
I read it when it came out in the '70s. I believe the author was Nicholas Meyer. It was turned into a movie with Nicol Williamson as Holmes, Robert Duvall as Watson and none other than Sir Laurence Olivier as a rather miffed Professor Moriarty. IIRC, Alan Arkin was Freud. The book is basically a psychoanalysis of Holmes phobias: he demonized Prof. Moriarty and had serious issues with brother Mycroft. I found it amusing in a post-modernist sense. And, also in a post-modernist sense, wholly derivative, iconoclastic-revisionist, and of just passing interest.
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PostSubject: Re: The Seven Percent Solution   Tue Aug 04, 2009 3:41 pm
Read it years ago and enjoyed it. But then, I like just about all of the post-Doyle Holmes stories. Reading a new one now Murder on Baker Street. Holmes stories by well know mystery writers like Anne Perry.

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