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I suggest staying well away from the books until you've seen Ritchie's effort. No point in spoiling both, I reckon.

But do read them, they are superb. You can learn a great deal about the Victorian mindset from them, too: how science replaced religion as the 'all powerful': The idea of evidence, proof etc and how by applying logic and science you can achieve anything.

All the more interesting when you consider that Arthur Conan Doyle completely turned his back on that way of thinking in later life and was a leading exponent of seances, etc. The dopey twat.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 29 Dec 2009, 15:05, Reply)