Book recommendation: Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

British writers are simply amazing.

Lots of years have passed, and the book itself starts to age.

But Sir Doyle's Sherlock Holmes who later became well-known as the world's most famous fictional detective will never age (alright, there are stories that shows Sherlock as a man of cranky old age -- oops, I'm spoiling it) , along with his loyal companion Dr. John Watson, and the many mysteries that they have shared.

First of all, there are an interesting pair. Holmes is what you would call a cold type of person, a person who prefers to be in solitude and tackle mysterious chemical experiments. He is a man who prefers mind over emotions, has ridiculous conclusions that usually ended up as correct, and one thing that I like about him is the fact that he plays the violin. His tastes in books and music are well and average; interesting and quite unusual mysteries will always seize his fancy.

Watson, however, according to my personal view of him, is a man of gentle nature -- and I do mean somehow gentler than the first man I've discussed. As I have mentioned earlier, he has the word 'doctor', meaning he had practiced some medicine back then. Watson was later turned into an army surgeon and was sent to Afghanistan (I think this was during the time Afghanistan fought against Britain for independence), shot by a dangerous bullet, was sent back to England, and he lived a lonely life back then. Poor Watson.

But fear not, for in A Study in Scarlet, an introduction of Watson's life before and with Holmes was told. Old-fashioned first-person narrative, very descriptive, lots of vocabulary that I still need to learn, it was an amazing portrayal of a detective tale.

I simply recommend this book (or any collection of Sherlock Holmes novels and stories) for it tells in a way that can allow the reader to explore the story for himself. Simply put, it's as if, the reader is within the very story itself. And you just can't stop reading about it.