OK, that's where we differ. It is exactly the fact that the images I make for myself when reading are generally not reflected adequately in the movie adaptions that I do not like (How dare they make it different from what I imagined! LOL)...
But I agree with you on Conan Doyle - The Complete Sherlock Holmes would be one of my top5 desert island choices...even though by now I've probably memorized it all ;)
I was still in grammar school when I started reading Holmes. Mother adored it and always encouraged it as good reading material for me. It’s stayed as one of my top books and I’d let a lot of my library go before I’d give up my Holmes shelf.
My favorite line, from The Three Garridebs after the suspect shot Watson and Watson says it’s a mere scratch: “”You are right,” he cried with an immense sigh of relief. “It is quite superficial.” His face set like flint as he glared at our prisoner, who was sitting up with a dazed face. “By the Lord, it is as well for you. If you had killed Watson, you would not have got out of this room alive.”
That’s my Holmes and Watson! And you’re right. They never put that on the screen the way I imagine it.