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[GavinUK86]

http://laughingsquid.com/mycroft-holmes-a-new-book-by-basketball-great-kareem-abdul-jabbar-about-sherlock-holmes-older-brainier-brother/

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the legendary basketball player and dedicated Sherlock Holmes fan, is writing a book about about Mycroft Holmes, Sherlock’s older, brainier and less motivated brother. Mycroft Holmes will be published in the fall of 2015 by Titan Books, who released a statement to The New York Times Arts Beat explaining how the book came about.

Mr. Abdul-Jabbar, a 19-time N.B.A. All-Star, began reading Arthur Conan Doyle’s stories more than 40 years ago, during his rookie season. “I was fascinated by Holmes’s ability to see clues where other people saw nothing,” he said in a statement released by his publisher. “Mycroft Holmes” was written with the screenwriter and producer Anna Waterhouse. Mr. Abdul-Jabbar later read “Enter the Lion: A Posthumous Memoir of Mycroft Holmes,” a 1979 novel that was written by Michael P. Hodel and Sean M. Wright, and features Sherlock’s older brother. He was taken with the character, who appears in several of Arthur Conan Doyle’s stories and works for the British government.

 

[Gozer the Gozerian]

Finally

 

[Cheebo]

Who wants to bet Anna Waterhouse wrote 90%+ of this book.

Famous non-author with a credited co-writer most of the time means the co-writer is the actual author.

 

[ChawlieTheFair]

Well that's unexpected.

 

[Angelus Errare]

Finally the superior Holmes gets his time to shine.

Fuck Elementary's version of Mycroft tho.

Who wants to bet Anna Waterhouse wrote 90%+ of this book.

Famous non-author with a credited co-writer most of the time means the co-writer is the actual author.

Kareem is an actual writer though...

 

[Cheebo]

Finally the superior Holmes gets his time to shine.

Fuck Elementary's version of Mycroft tho.



Kareem is an actual writer though...

He writes novels? Consider my blind blown. What a world.

 

[Sanjuro]

Guy is a fucking hack. He only tried during the playoffs, so the book will be shit.

 

[watershed]

To be honest I can understand why. Mycroft is a very intriguing side character in the original Holmes mysteries. It's only natural that fans want to fill in his history and walk in his shoes a bit.

 

[hipbabboom]

Guy is a fucking hack. He only tried during the playoffs, so the book will be shit.

Tastes like salt

 

[Sanjuro]

Tastes like salt

You must not like gladiator movies.

 

[Joe Shlabotnik]

Guy is a fucking hack. He only tried during the playoffs, so the book will be shit.

YOU try dragging Walton and Lanier up and down the
floor for 48.

 

[chuckddd]

Ever see a grown man naked?

 

[ampere]

Tastes like salt

woosh

 

[Rest]

Finally the superior Holmes gets his time to shine.

Fuck Elementary's version of Mycroft tho.



Kareem is an actual writer though...

Is he? Where should one start with his work?

 

[Choomp]

Guess sports people just get into writing for some reason

 

[Butts-a-plenty]

good for him. he obviously loves the holmes universe so more power to him.

 

[Log4Girlz]

Guess sports people just get into writing for some reason

Was he some kind of athlete? I didn't read anything about the NFL in the op.

 

[wmlk]

Kareem is just a really, really smart and interesting guy from everything I see, read and hear about him.

 

[hipbabboom]

woosh

Woosh indeed. I didn't even get the reference... I misread the original post and though there was bitterness about playoff performance or something

 

[bengraven]

Good fit.

 

[GTP_Daverytimes]

Was he some kind of athlete? I didn't read anything about the NFL in the op.

Lol, i get this.

 

[Currygan]

hey, maybe it will be good! a book about Mycroft is at the very least interesting

 

[Duress]

Truly, a gentleman and scholar.