These stories are great..... And so well delivered. What is so great is the fact that these stories are not interrupted by annoying ads...... Long may this continue...
It's comforting to know that I'm not alone when I say these stories have been a life saver. I to use them to help me sleep. The gentleman who's voice is used to read these stories is absolutely relaxing. Thank you for having the voice of an angel.
You read so well! I am spoiled, and demand my story before I sleep… With your readings, I can be entertained until I’m ready to fall asleep. Thanks again!
You good sir was the first narrator I've heard online and I was hooked. When I was looking for other audiobooks, not one is on your level! Thank you Mr. Narrator!
Please what is the name of this narrator?I loooove him to bits, he is out of this world, One can actually almost literally see everything as it happens with the visual eye just from listening to him, I would love to hear more of other audiobooks he had narrated
I especially like the clear enunciation and steady pace of the reading which means non native english speakers can follow the stories as well. As a learner of Spanish I am always grateful for clear speakers to aid my comprehension.
I have to agree. There is an expressive precision to ACD's writing that deftly sketches a scene but without sounding stiff or stilted. Or is just Greg Wagland's reading. !!!
Thank you so much. In my school, we had to read 10 old books, I chose Sherlock Holmes books and then I found you. I finish 1 book a day thank you for making this so easy for me 😊
It's been a long time sin e hearing this. Then it was Rathbone and Bruce. I like this story and enjoy it being read. Excellent reader and well done. Thank you.
Your story choices combined with the sublime tones of your narrations are simply glorious. You are an important part of my life, as restlessness can haunt me. Thank you.
Sorry.....i almost forgot to thank you for the Wonderful Sherlock stories that you share. My reading skills are poor....... so i use the SUBTITLES viewed at just a "single Line" per go......using a special READER on my desktop................your uploads are exactly perfect for my reading ability.................... and i have very much enjoyed your Sherlock collections.... my sincere thanks to you for sharing.....
CAN YOU SEE THIS GREG? i just had an intuitive flash why I couldn't put my finger (as it were) on what seems to be "funny" about your american accent. I was focusin on the pronunciation of the sounds, which aren't too far off. But what differs is the patterns of emphasized and de-emphasized syllables, also lengthened and shortened syllables. If there are many vernaculars in the Merrye-Olde-Land -- such as you have done well to mimic -- many more are in USA, so that if you were to seek to imitate American, you'd have to first pick a vernacular.
I love Holmes, and these are great readings. I dont fall asleep to them but use them when I wield the feather duster, cook the tea, or sit by the chiminea with a single malt as the bats flutter in the dusk.
The American pronunciation of “prospecting” emphasizes the first syllable. The American accent is so good I was surprised to hear this word pronounced emphasizing the second syllable. I must admit pointing this out gives me a Lastrade like satisfaction as Mr. Wagland is a truly great reader. An error by him is as rare as a hen’s tooth!
I hope not everyone avails themselves of these incredible tales with only an eye for use as a soporific. Lessons in the art of observation, critical thinking and pure logic abound. (He said getting off his high horse and turning over to go to sleep. Yeesh)
Listening to a Sherlock Holmes story as opposed to watching it requires a different level of attention. It permits you use your imagination more thus strengthening your thinking skills.
37:34 "Frank wouldn't throw up his hand, though" -- hand of cards. Same as "wouldn't fold" or would play out the round with the cards that he was dealt.
The differing ‘voices’ and accents were a joy here. Thank you, a much appreciated effort. As regards the story, a slightly lighter offering from the great Conan Doyle. Lord St Simeon sounds as if he was a less attractive prototype for Lord Peter Wimsey, particularly as played by Sir Edwin Petherbridge. I have a complaint though...I didn’t fall asleep! And it’s a few minutes shy of 2 am. I’ll have to look for a story I know, so that the excellent narration lulls rather than interests. Or something..2am, remember! Thanks again for a lovely, well done narration.
Bilinda Law-Morley I find the more I am interested, the better I fall asleep. If I am bored, for ex, this only irritates me, giving a wide berth to the least possibility of sleep. If, in addition, I trust the main character, as well as the excellent reader, I may be lulled off & finish the tale the next or another day.
Sherlock Holmes Stories Magpie Audio No, not at all! A good reading lulls one, we trust the reader as we trust Holmes & Watson & can (finally) fall asleep. Then listen to the end or re-listen to the whole the following day. The more interesting the tale & the reading, the easier it is to drop off. If uninterested, boredom sets in, THE absolute antidote to sleep. Be glad of causing us to lower our guard, for you help us insomniacs to gain our much wanted sleep! Our interest doesn’t flail, our insomnia does. 👏👏👏
this is very similar to the Dancing Men story, I presume ACD used the American flash back to up his sales in that country ie Sign of Four, Study in Scarlet at the two already alluded to...
Very interesting comment from Holmes about expecting some future Anglo-American union. With Watson's evulation of his political knowledge as "feeble", this might be an example of how Holmes' political instincts are a bit weak. It might also be something Doyle himself believed and decided to add?
Don’t get me wrong-I *adore* these stories and your telling of them, and you did a perfect job here, but I find this to be one of the very dullest of the lot. 😅
We see the seeds oh at least two other stories here: _Casablanca,_ where The plot involves a woman who learned the husband she thought was dead is still alive and _The Princess Bride,_ in which the title character’s True Love has been killed by pirates - or has he?
The American bride: “I know I treated you real bad.” Conan Doyle ALREADY noting & mocking the low level of American English. We treat someone badly, not bad. We feel bad, not badly, as my compatriots insist on saying. Compare his & Watson’s & indeed his usual clients’ English. Ha ha! If he could only hear USA Today! 😂 PS. He does so touchingly, even so, portraying the young American woman as sincere & lovely. And not unintelligent either.
Speak for yourself. Do you hang out with gutter trash? The English grammar one hears depends on the company one keeps. Neither I nor the Americans I know would ever utter a phrase like "I know I treated you real bad." Ugh.
After plowing through this ridiculously baroque and overly convoluted and ornamented prose, it's easy to see what Ernest Hemingway was rebelling against when he pursued his lean and muscular style. These stories would be half as long if the fluff and ruffles and unnecessary fat of the prose were trimmed away. Gad.
Stop ploughing. Read Hemingway. Enjoy your lean and muscular style! Or maybe enjoy instruction manuals for washing machines badly translated from the original Chinese. Time is short.
Oh get a grip. No one is insulting YOU. Simply a discussion of the literary styles of the Victorians whose writing was intensely rococo versus the modernists who chose to pare it down. If you think Fitzgerald or Hemingway wrote like washing machine manuals you obviously skipped English Lit.
They wouldn't be the same work if all the 'fat' were trimmed away. They would be Readers Digest condensed. If all the words but one were removed they would consist of one word. Interesting thesis.
Geoff Simmons, What were you on about when you wrote that comment? Does it have a reference to the Sherlock Holmes story? Or is there something missing?
Geoff Simmons I doubt that! Your very presence would probably have prevented that. But, as it is, the whole world is rather under his shatteringly creaky jurisdiction. Alas.
