8 The Speckled Band from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892) Audiobook
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- One of the finest of all the Sherlock Holmes short stories, and number eight in the collection entitled The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
It is read here by Greg Wagland. ©Magpie Audio 2017
My friend is blind and I forward this to her. She loves listening to it. She said bless u
Glad to hear it!
Cheers camron
Another reason to be grateful to you.
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This story was my first experience with Sherlock. It completly fascinated me, and here I am now, an Aurthur Conan Doyle addict. Thanks Greg
Thanks Glory. Glad you're enjoying them! All the best!
Glory Powers I love your profile picture!
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I had to study for a test on this story but had limited time to do so. Listening to this gave more time to do things and prepare while studying simultaneously. Thank you so much!
Glad it helped. Cheers William.
I listen to one story every day. I have repeated yours readings several times. This is how Sherlock speaks when I read his stories in hard bound books. Thank you.
Thanks for listening - and best wishes to the Hedgerow!
This is the best and most wholesome compliment I think I’ve ever encountered
I have ADD and I have trouble reading for a long time because of this, so this is very helpful to me.💜
I have an English assignment to do with this and when I read I get distracted so listening to this while reading helped me. Thankyou
This site allows me to enjoy my Holmes as I work. Very good at relieving stress! :)
Great to hear it helps! all the best Grendachan.
Oh man. This one. I got the audio cassette, yes cassette, of this from the library when I was a kid. Ever since then, I think of this very story every time I hear the name of “Sherlock Holmes”.
I relish these readings by Greg who has such a sonorous rich deep voice - that is indeed British English at its best.
Thanks EnglishTeacherBerlin. Is it warming up in Berlin yet? Spring in the air?
This is my favourite, love it when Holmes gets the better of a murdering bully! Like in the pub in
“A Solitary Cyclist” when Holmes just happens to know about boxing, Plus his “ little knowledge of Japanese wrestling!” When he fights Morearty at the Rycanbach falls🤣🤣👍
Clean, smart and sharp...
I love the stories and listening to this reader.
Cheers REBeca
The readings are excellent. A thoroughly good read is half the enjoyment of an audiobook. Thank you - and a Happy 2024.
Same to you!
One of the best stories so far.
I love this book sssoooo mmmmmuuuuuuuccccchhhhh
I listen to it every night and I absolutely recommend it to everyone who likes reading 😊
Love the voice changes their all just perfect 👌
First story I ever read about 30 years ago from the Oxford Classics, which is my favourite story along with The Red Headed League and The Retired Colourman. Top job by Mr Wagland!
I'm glad I stumbled upon this channel. I forgot how addicted I was to Sherlock Holmes. I'm going to relive his adventures again, this time in audiobook form.
I have been listening to Sherlock Holmes for almost 2 years
Thanks for making this video because I can not read that good
Glad it helped you.
Cheers.
Perhaps not, but you have excellent taste in literature! 📘
Piña-colada _101 You write pretty well though. Bravo!
THANKyou so much, we need to read this and explain the plot for school
But i am so happy i found an audio version i can just listen instead
Thanks!
Glad I could help, Bröt!
Thank you so much
I have an assignment on this tomorrow and you saved me so much time
I'm so glad!
Hooo my. The Speckled Band is actually quite scary, but that ending really got me shivering.
Conan Doyle was a master story teller with an interesting range of interests. He had a predilection for unusual names, e.g.Hilton Cubitt, a name that always strikes me as comic even ludicrous - and his two famous characters were originally called Sherringford Hope and Ormand Sacker who would no doubt have sunk without trace had he not changed them to Holmes and Watson.
Yes, they are ludicrous, some of them. Maybe he was fearful of getting sued by people with dull names?
Ormand Sacker is a corker though, isn't it?
Cubitt was a very well known surname in London at the time these stories were written. Thomas Cubitt designed and built large swaths of London; Belgravia, Pimlico, Bloomberry. Eaton Square. Beautiful buildings from a different use and time.
Anthony Trollope, Charles Dickens, Oscar Wilde, They all had character names that seem odd now, like a kind of concentrate of Britishness. And the names usually reflected some
He also likes the last name of Windygate it appears several times, landlord in the blue carbuncle, & stepfather who pretends to be”Hosmer Angel”( another classic name)👍😉
I have to read it for school so now I can listen to it THANKS
Nice work reading this :)
Thanks for listening Agnieszka!
Holmes cheerfully talking about crocuses while mr crankypants bends fire pokers is both damn funny and a flex of considerable proportions
One of my favorite scenes in all of Sherlock Holmes's adventures.
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I've just listened to "Black Peter", then this story.
It strikes me how so many of the SH stories have either as a main plot or as a sub-plot, or just as a social context taken for granted, that women were so lacking in any way to escape abusive situations. Passed like chattel from the hands of their fathers to the hands of their husbands, they were lucky if they wound up with a man who would not abuse them - and if they were not so lucky, they had no recourse to the law.
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson were sympathetic toward women who were being abused, but the plots usually involved some kind of plan to steal an inheritance - the abuse itself didn't seem to be seen as a crime.
Yup. Different times, but still lots of people being treated like chattels around the world.
@@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio It is only fairly recently in English and US history that women had any control over their own assets. In the Old West, about the same time as this story, the only way a woman could gain wealth on her own was through prostitution, especially as management.
Thank you so much this helped me get an A on my project
Raised his snakish temper!🤣🤣Brilliant!!
Superb have been a Holmes fan since the early 60s read them all and watched them all and your reading of them brings them alive in ones mind so thank you sir and keep up the great work that you do 👌👌👌
Cheers brindle.
Thanks this will help me with understanding
Thank you very much.
You are welcome, Susan!
Sherlock Holmes Be Strong Doe.
Good evening everyone, some months ago, I wrote a comment asking help to find a story, I got some answers but no one can identify it, so I decided to listen to all the stories in order to find it. Here I am, 6 months later and I did not find it!!! I am truly starting to think that I dream this and it doesnt actually exist!!! It starts describing a very cold and foggy day, sherlock its at the basement making a lot of noise and watson is reading something, then at dinner sherlock tells watson something about a very important experiment (something about bullets being fired, i think) and tells him that if he wants to know about this he must promise to stay at home and not talk to anyone, watson accepts this and sherlock goes back to the basement; then in the middle of the nigth a friend of watson arrives at the house and ask him to receive him. Thats the part where I always felt asleep. If anyone can help me with this I will be forever grateful!!! I am sure that im not creative enough to dream the story by myself but I listened to all the stories here, even the pastiches and I CAN NOT FOUND IT, maybe I dont remember correctly or I dont know... help please!!
_"But what in the name of the devil!"_
_The ejaculation had been drawn from my companion by the fact that our door had been suddenly dashed open, and a huge man framed himself in the aperture._
Oh my god hahaha. This might be my favorite example of "ejaculation" sounding funny to modern ears.
Yes. Framing oneself in the aperture! Really?
He is so smart 🤓 I would have never figured that 😂 one out.😊.
I have to watch it for my English HW lol
Bad luck, Sean. Beats reading though, possibly?
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Wonderful suspense. Until the last few moments. Lovely narration.
I love mystery
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Back to reality ❣️.
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The literary style of some of the stories are advanced compared to others, showing that perhaps they were written in a later time in the author's life.
Is this your real accent or do you speak more properly to fit the book better?
Creative writing class wya
this story is amazing!!
Thank you.
He is crazy 😅😅😅😅
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Helen Stoner should have been played by some lady. It would have made the audio book more realistic.
Thanks. I will get one from Amazon or eBay!
@@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio Thank you 🙏 I appreciate every audio book of yours.
jayati bandyopadhyay I disagree because this narrator is brilliant at the female voice. No one else has the subtlety to do it so very well. It is one of the things that I love and admire
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If respectfully expressed minority opinions are permitted, I contend that “Speckled Band” is, for some reason, very overrated. Almost strangely so. No offense meant to anyone, of course, but several key plot elements are, frankly, absurd in the extreme. For starters, how can so many readers apparently be THAT ignorant regarding snake behavior? How this one ever achieved its vaunted status in the ACD canon has always been a matter of bafflement to me. I even went back and read it again, and … nope, just as I remembered it. (To be clear, I love Sherlock Holmes.)
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These videos are the only reason I’m passing my university literature class while working full time
Back to reality ❣️.
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Thank you so much for this. I can’t read properly because I have dyslexia and this is very helpful.
Glad it was helpful! Thanks Craftb!
Yes, it's helpful for me as well. Due to neurological problems, I suffer from double vision very often, and on those days, it's impossible to read. I often lay in bed and just listen to these one after another. :) This is really the best recorded version available! I spent $70 on the Audible treasury of the whole Sherlock Holmes Canon a few years ago, and yet I stopped listening to it once I found this channel ❤
Sherlock's a dick. You'd think he might, at some point, say "Hey Watson, I'm pretty sure an incredibly venomous reptile might pop out of that grate there, in the dark, in this small room. Get ready." Brilliant detective, incredible asshole.
You are doing an incredible work reading these stories. A+
Thank you J Post
@@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio why do you just take the credit?? You are not the author nor are you the voice actor reading it! You just upload it to UA-cam...
This one frightened me as a child. We had a trapdoor in the ceiling at the top of the stairs, and
I feared 'the band' would drop down from it.
Came after finishing the Great Attorney Video Game series starring Herlock Scholmes, but stayed for the smooth and relaxing narration, as well as the intriguing plot! Great reading! I will gladly return to listen to more stories!
Funny thing is, the character of Herlock Sholmes also made appearances in the famous novel series, "Arsene Lupin III".
yo dude! had the same thoughts? 😌
May he be shamed who finds the nerve to dislike this marvellous work.
And pilloried, and possibly birched.
Too harsh perhaps?
>@@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio Oh but that is simply elementary, my dear watson
or she
Holmes is an enjoyable creation, but this is one of Conan-Doyle's most absurd premises. No snake can be trained with milk to come on a whistle. Milk is nothing like food for a snake, and they can't hear through the air. They are sophisticated for brain size but cannot be trained up like some mammals. Nor would they lie in anything like a band around a head. They aren't even likely to strike without cause. Amazing how fearful yet ignorant people are of these fascinating creatures. PS: cheetahs and baboons are African, not Indian.
I am nearly 50 years old and still cracks me up when the Sherlock Holmes stories talk about "huge ejaculations." Funniest one so far - where Watson was asleep in a chair by the fire - and Sherlock Holmes' violent ejaculation woke him up with a start. Fnarr fnarr...
There are some funny ones. Fnarr indeed 😊
Toffos would play havoc and let slip my old mercury fillings, so can’t support your campaign. Soz.
I'm glad it isn't just me haha
Always struck me as funny too. The other expression you get sometimes is "he snorted" but then Holmes was on what are now , but weren't in Holmes' times, illegal substances.
Best audio reader of all time--
Soo ture
It is a little cold for the time of the year but I have heard that the crocuses promise well => my new go to phrase 😁
A phrase to be used sparingly perhaps?
When Holmes mentioned how bad it can be when a physician goes wrong, all I could think of was Crippen; however, Crippen wasn't fictional unfortunately. Thank you for the brilliant job on these! A wonderful way to spend a Sunday afternoon.
My Favourite Sherlock Holmes Story. Followed By "The Hound Of The Baskervilles" & "The Sussex Vampire". GREAT!!
FIRST Holmes story I ever read in school and STILL my favorite...Thanks for giving your usual GREAT performance...
This was Doyle's favourite, as well. He called it "the grim snake story". 🐍
@@h.calvert3165 I was so happy it was his favorite as well.
One of the best atmosphere out of all holmes stories. Simply captivating.
My craving for articulate writing is satisfied by ACD & Agatha Christie. I feel so fortunate to have access to thee fine readings.
Thanks Gina
I've seen all the Holmes episodes (Brett and Hardwick) and now ive listended to all of your audiobooks. And I shall listen again and again. Your great at narrating. Bravo Greg.
Beautifully read, as always!
Love your soothing voice Greg....
Greg Wagland you are a huge talent. Your delivery is impeccable, a total pro. I hope you are profiting from this generous act, you deserve to.
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I always listen to your readings when I'm upset or on the verge of a mental break down. Your voice is very soothing. Thank you Greg!
Cheers Jumps Angel
Take care
We can also rely on the voice that calms us in a very difficult time
Big old man bends metal
Sherlock oh come on good sir that was my favorite metal. **fixes it to its original state**
Poker face 🤔
You are a wonderful story teller
Wonderful reading. Thank you
The doctor's voice boomed out very convincingly. (I can just about remember the window up and down leather straps in old train compartments - see illustration.)
A. Conan Doyle's #1 favorite from all of his Sherlock Holmes' stories.
It's definitely up there. I also like The Red-Headed League for its light hearted moments.
@@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio Definitely a good one.
Love your skills at reading
This was my introduction to S. H. in an adaptation as a kid.
Love from India bro nice to listen you😘😊
I've been addicted to your channel and listened in religiously while obtaining my nurse practitioners license. I've passed on your channel to students and they absolutely agree, you're amazing. Thank you for the content.
Good luck with the nursing! Informed consent etc
“Roused it’s snakish temper!”Just Brilliant✊
As you can probably guess by my profile pic, this is my FAVORITE Sherlock Holmes short story of all time! Big thanks and thumbs up for this amazing reading. You are without a doubt my favorite Sherlock Holmes audiobook channel ever!
ihave an eng exam tmrow and this has helped me much and saved me alot of time
@Hamza SAME
Same
School work too
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Love these books
Thank you
Glad you like them! Thanks Leo.
Love the way you have Holmes say”this old DOCTOR!Just can tell he holds him in total contemt😁that’s before the visit from him to😉
Just perfect narration ✊
Im not a very good reader i easily get distracted and had to read this for a summer assignment obviously i left it last minute but this is explained it so clearly and i really thought this book was gonna suck but i loved it in the end it was so interesting
I love Mr. Wagland's work and have great admirstion for his talent. Please please get UA-cam to fix the play list so that I can see the stories in order and play them in order. The recent changes have made the play list a chaotic mess with no redeeming features.
I had forgotten how much I liked this story. Thank you
Thank you this really helps:)
Glad to hear that, Nea Rojas!