I have read it, all of it, last summer. I have avoided it at school and uni, but watching Sherlock convinced me to give it a try.

221BBakerStreet_ wrote:

Awesome!!! Yeah I got in trouble once for reading Sherlock during class

There are some really weird teachers out there...

I just imagine myself praising my pupil for not paying attention because she was reading Sherlock Holmes... Jep, I would.

Reading twilight would be a completely different matter and would probably lead to detention.

I never read any before I watched this show but it has compelled me to do so because I just want more Sherlock in my life now. I've always loved classic novels but never felt interested in ACD before now.

I first watched Sherlock 2 months ago. Since then I've read:

A Study in Scarlett
The Sign of the Four
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - I finished this today.

I'm starting on The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes tomorrow. I aim to read all ACD Holmes stories.

Yes, twice. Once fifteen or twenty years ago, and another time this year. Sometimes I re-read particular stories or bits of stories to prepare for quizzes.

Before watching Sherlock, I'd only read The Hound of the Baskervilles. But after I got addicted to the show, I was dying to catch all those subtle references to the canon stories, so the next day I bought "The complete SH stories, volume I and II" and spent several weeks devouring all the stories

And I keep re-reading them now all the time. Apart from the fact that I really like the style and the mysteries, I think the short stories are ideal for a short reading in between, or on my daily commute.

Does anyone know the book "The curious incident of the dog in the night-time"? I had read that before SH and didn't even know the title was a Sherlock-quote from "Silver Blaze"

SherlockianDE wrote:

Before watching Sherlock, I'd only read The Hound of the Baskervilles. But after I got addicted to the show, I was dying to catch all those subtle references to the canon stories, so the next day I bought "The complete SH stories, volume I and II" and spent several weeks devouring all the stories

And I keep re-reading them now all the time. Apart from the fact that I really like the style and the mysteries, I think the short stories are ideal for a short reading in between, or on my daily commute.

Does anyone know the book "The curious incident of the dog in the night-time"? I had read that before SH and didn't even know the title was a Sherlock-quote from "Silver Blaze"

That's awesome!!! I haven't heard of the story through
 

I've read all novels and stories a few months ago. We (me and my sister who has read them too) borrowed the book from my sister's friend; it was in one thick book which inlcudes all (4) novels and (56) stories about Sherlock Holmes, at least it was said on the front cover there were all stories, so I think I've read them all and there's no story somewhere else I missed  

Wow, some of you....  I must sheepishly admit I neither grew up with the stories or read them for school or devoured all at once, like some fans seem to after 're-discovering'...  (I know, right?  Especially after hearing Mark talk here and there about devouring them when younger and growing up with that kind of thing... must have been nice), although I must have been introduced to just a couple here and there in different forms, one or two of the 'classic' episodes, and the general gist of it from being ingrained in culture. 

To answer 221B's question, I'm more like a lot of people, that always enjoyed that kind of thing, but never picked up the canon until seeing the show sparked up my interest again.  Now I'm (slowly) working my way through the last couple of the story collections, having started at the beginning last summer because I wanted to know what they were like, and been intermixed with various other series and pastiches got addicted to as well.  ;)  I'm thinking would be nice to time it to wrap up the current few books I'm on to get back to the next collection waiting for me, 'His Last Bow', soon before the show returns, to get plunked back into the feel of it again, and brushed up on even more adventures and references by that point...   

Russell wrote:

Wow, some of you.... I must sheepishly admit I neither grew up with the stories or read them for school or devoured all at once, like some fans seem to after 're-discovering'... (I know, right? Especially after hearing Mark talk here and there about devouring them when younger and growing up with that kind of thing... must have been nice), although I must have been introduced to just a couple here and there in different forms, one or two of the 'classic' episodes, and the general gist of it from being ingrained in culture.

To answer 221B's question, I'm more like a lot of people, that always enjoyed that kind of thing, but never picked up the canon until seeing the show sparked up my interest again. Now I'm (slowly) working my way through the last couple of the story collections, having started at the beginning last summer because I wanted to know what they were like, and been intermixed with various other series and pastiches got addicted to as well. ;) I'm thinking would be nice to time it to wrap up the current few books I'm on to get back to the next collection waiting for me, 'His Last Bow', soon before the show returns, to get plunked back into the feel of it again, and brushed up on even more adventures and references by that point...

Yeah it took me a couple months to read them, I wish I had taken my time with it through. They are brilliant books and I wanted to finish them before the school year ended