I am not sure how I feel about this

[impulsereader]

They are issuing copies of Arthur Conan Doyle's Holmes stories with covers which are from Sherlock.

ETA - OMG - Martin Freeman wrote an intro for one of them...my consternation grows apace.

Comments

[f-m-r-l.livejournal.com]

I can see the covers leading to a great number of disappointed purchasers. The front cover of the one I looked at shows nothing that would immediately distinguish it as a story over a hundred years old and with markedly different plots and characterization than those seen in the BBC series.

Exploring different places in space, time, and thought can be one of the best parts of being a reader as far as I'm concerned. But some people like to be surrounded only by the familiar, possibly because they just want to focus on characterization and the like and differences distract them, possibly because they read for a comfortably familiar retreat. (And I'm certainly not going to say "Oh, you're not a real reader if you don't read like I do or don't enjoy the same things I do.") Those people are going to feel cheated.

[impulsereader.livejournal.com]

That's my main point, I think. They look like they're going to be novelizations of Sherlock. Anyone who doesn't glance through, or doesn't register the fact that Amazon lists ACD as the author; or, heck, someone who doesn't know who ACD is - is going to be mightily disappointed. The covers scream - action & adventure! Not - really awesome detective stories that don't actually feature any explosions!

[f-m-r-l.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I thought there were occasional explosions. I'll have to look back. :-)

[impulsereader.livejournal.com]

There could be, that was just the first, most obvious and noisy thing I could think of that people now might be looking for...especially if they've seen Sherlock, now that I think about it. There's quite a lot of exploding going on in TGG.