Sir Arthur Conan Doyle created Sherlock Holmes, the moody opium consuming scientific detective who along with Dr Watson, could solve any crime in England with his uncanny eye for detail. He used "deductive reasoning" to come to the most plausible solution.
I didn't know this, but Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wasn't English - he was Scottish. His character Sherlock Holmes was English though. He started publishing his stories in 1887 and most were based in London.
Of all the stories, I think the ones I remember best were "The Hound of the Baskervilles" and "The Sign of Four". I don't know why these stuck, but they did. As a kid I read all of the stories and novels written which featured Holmes. Like I've said before, I love mysteries.
What is it about moody, anti-social beings that attracts us? Is it because they're anti-social and prefer not to be in normal company that we seek them out and befriend them? That we like to read about them and watch them on television? Take for example Sheldon in The Big Bang Theory. Now this series hasn't come to India yet, but I got a chance to watch the series on television in Trinidad. It is HILARIOUS! Sheldon plays this crazy, brilliant, loony, eccentric physicist who has the funniest interpretations of day to day events and believes himself to be rational while at the same time, being totally irrational!
His skits on the show made me lol - laugh out loud. And I don't do that usually. It's only a good P G Woodehouse that has made me laugh hysterically till now. (For those who have not read P G Woodehouse - I recommend it - especially the Jeeves and Wooster series!!)
My point in the end being - we all like what is different. So stop trying to conform!!
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