My fifth grade teacher (I'd skipped fourth grade) gave me, I *think* for Christmas, a paperback copy of _The Hound of the Baskervilles_. That would have been in... what? 1960? 1961? I still have it.
I didn't fall head-first into the Holmes stories, but I'd started organ lessons at 7, and in 6th grade changed teachers and went from the spinet we had at home to the pipe organ at church, so I'd already acquired my One True Obsession. *grin* But yeah, have loved the stories, always. Bought _The Annotated Sherlock Holmes_ for myself maybe 30 years ago, about the time I was buying myself the slipcased hardcover LotR and Hobbit, to *not* be loaned out and then replaced.
Mmmmmmbooks. :) (Haven't started watching the new series or the new movies. Am probably going to stay fixated on Jeremy Brett as World's Best Holmes, though. *grin*
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Date: 2012-01-18 03:14 am (UTC)My fifth grade teacher (I'd skipped fourth grade) gave me, I *think* for Christmas, a paperback copy of _The Hound of the Baskervilles_. That would have been in... what? 1960? 1961? I still have it.
I didn't fall head-first into the Holmes stories, but I'd started organ lessons at 7, and in 6th grade changed teachers and went from the spinet we had at home to the pipe organ at church, so I'd already acquired my One True Obsession. *grin* But yeah, have loved the stories, always. Bought _The Annotated Sherlock Holmes_ for myself maybe 30 years ago, about the time I was buying myself the slipcased hardcover LotR and Hobbit, to *not* be loaned out and then replaced.
Mmmmmmbooks. :) (Haven't started watching the new series or the new movies. Am probably going to stay fixated on Jeremy Brett as World's Best Holmes, though. *grin*