{"id":746,"date":"2008-06-02T15:49:13","date_gmt":"2008-06-02T23:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.katylee.com\/blog\/?p=746"},"modified":"2008-06-02T15:49:13","modified_gmt":"2008-06-02T23:49:13","slug":"the-seven-percent-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/02\/the-seven-percent-solution\/","title":{"rendered":"The Seven Percent Solution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/24\/exit-sherlock-holmes\/\" target=\"_blank\">Another Sherlock Holmes<\/a> book not by Conan Doyle.<\/p>\n<p>This one is <em>The Seven Percent Solution<\/em> by Nicholas Meyer.<\/p>\n<p>Holmes&#8217; cocaine addiction is so unpopular. This is the second book I&#8217;ve read that talks about Holmes quitting the habit. I agree that we don&#8217;t like the idea of our hero as a drug addict.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Seven Percent Solution <\/em>definitely sounds like it was written by Dr. Watson. That part I like.<\/p>\n<p>It seems that every author likes to write an aspect of Holmes&#8217; life that Doyle did not detail, and tries to make sense of it by being creative. In this book, there is a twist about Professor Moriarty, Holmes&#8217; nemesis. It&#8217;s rather interesting but it wouldn&#8217;t fit with Doyle&#8217;s other references to Moriarty. And it doesn&#8217;t put Holmes in a very good light.<\/p>\n<p>Some of Holmes&#8217; mysterious past is revealed in this book when Holmes allows himself to go under hypnosis by a Jewish doctor in Vienna. Can you guess who this up and coming doctor is that Holmes met up with in the 1890&#8217;s? Take a guess.<\/p>\n<p>I enjoyed the book, and I am glad to have found an author I like so I can read more of his material. (Thanks, again, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greatcircle.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pete<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another Sherlock Holmes book not by Conan Doyle. This one is The Seven Percent Solution by Nicholas Meyer. Holmes&#8217; cocaine addiction is so unpopular. This is the second book I&#8217;ve read that talks about Holmes quitting the habit. I agree that we don&#8217;t like the idea of our hero as a drug addict. The Seven [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}