He reads strictly pederasty erotica.

1. Knowledge of Literature.—Nil.
2. Philosophy.—Nil.
3. Astronomy.—Nil.
4. Politics.—Feeble.
5. Botany.—Variable. Well up in belladonna, opium, and poisons generally. Knows nothing of practical gardening.
6. Geology.—Practical, but limited. Tells at a glance different soils from each other. After walks has shown me splashes upon his trousers, and told me by their colour and consistence in what part of London he had received them.
7. Chemistry.—Profound.
8. Anatomy.—Accurate, but unsystematic.
9. Sensational Literature.—Immense. He appears to know every detail of every horror perpetrated in the century.
10. Plays the violin well.
11. Is an expert singlestick player, boxer, and swordsman.
12. Has a good practical knowledge of British law.

>>2591683

A great contribution, if OP is not aware, taken from 'A Study in Scarlet'.

don't think you get sherlock holmes from that stupid movie.

>>2591697

Indeed, but by the time of the Strand stories we have him making references to Thomas Carlyle.

I think it'd be worthwhile compiling a list of literary works referenced by Holmes. The trick would be, of course, that when people had read them in order to more fully inhabit the character's world, they would accidentally have given themselves the beginnings of a Victorian humanities education.

>>2591697
>>2591701
yeah it's always strange to me that people want to talk about holmes but then only talk about the movies or the tv show

>>2591703
yeah and IIRC telling Watson about his bibliographic excursions, like getting a first edition of Grotius. clearly watson was a humanizing force on holmes, or perhaps as holmes became more involved in the corridors of power he saw the utility of a somewhat broader range of knowledge.

it's an interesting question and could, i think, be the subject of a nice little essay. i know there's a sherlockian essay extant about Holmes' book-buying habits but none, so far as i know, that focus on his reading, and in particular on the change in his reading habits.

>>2591729
hey, jeremy brett is a bad ass motherfucker.

the movie was so bad though. it'd be one thing if it were mediocre but it was worse than that. it was detrimental.

>>2591755
it was a perfectly entertaining movie, man, the only problem was that someone made this inexplicable error and put "sherlock holmes" in the title when it clearly wasn't about sherlock holmes at all.

but yeah, jeremy brett and other adaptations are cool, but the wonderful stories always come first to me, and if OP is curious about eg holmes' reading habits i just don't understand why he wouldn't, you know, read the books to see if they had anything in them about that

>>2591729
Yes I'm trying to get my hands on that list because I'm doing a "tour du monde"... and I would like to do something useful
>>2591767
I don't really like fictional books, even movies... that's why I said at the beginning that my friend "made me watch" the Sherlock Holmes movies. But I'm stil doing my research about the sherlock reading habits and thanks to >>2591683 I know now where I'll be looking at !

But if anyone has any recommendation I'll be glad to take it !

bump

>thinking these movies have anything to do with Sherlock Holmes

The character is in the public domain, so they just take the name and use it for their shit action movie to get more attention.

>>2591767
>it was a perfectly entertaining movie, man,

ugh. i can't say you're wrong but that's almost exactly like someone saying Eragon is a perfectly entertaining book. i can't say they're wrong either.

ritchies' sherlock movie (the first one) is relatively well-adherent to doyle canon character-wise.

holmes was a bit more actiony and watson a lot less useless than they give them credit for nowadays.

also watson was a woman: http://www.hwslash.net/stout.html

>>2593913
well first of all i'm only talking about the first movie because i didn't see the second. and honestly, yeah, it was a pretty entertaining action movie. it wasn't overly insulting to the intelligence (ok, well, it kind of was, but in a way i could compartmentalize), rdj was entertaining, it was a good time. sorry not every movie i watch is on the criterion collection i guess?

>>2593978
i was dragged to 1 and 2, so i'm more at fault, for fueling it. i just have trouble stomaching movies so weak and bloated. i really wish studios didn't think so little of audiences. you can make something just as funny or exciting without compromising quality.

please get back to the subject, let's talk more about the books than about the movies.

THE MOVIE IS SHIT GO AND DIE

>" what kind of literature that Sherlock Holmes would like to read? "

In the stories I'm pretty sure he's mentioned as having almost zero knowledge of literature.

>>2591683
Case in point.

>>2595736
Yeah, that excerpt is from "Study in Scarlet." It blatantly says Sherlock doesn't give a shit about literature.