The fun setup for this story is that Watson has written this book but has asked that it not be opened for 100 years because the information contained within is quite damaging to some important people in English society.Īnd so, although this story is set at some time during Holmes’ tenure as a detective, it’s not his “final” case or anything like that. I assume it must be great, but who knows. I also don’t know anything about his fondness for Holmes. There is no way he was going to please people by doing this. I can’t quite imagine the pressure that one must feel in Horowitz’ situation. In no way can I compare this story to an Arthur Conan Doyle story, nor do I think you are supposed to (even though this is an authorized part of the series). But it has been a while since I read one. I went through a brief phase where I was reading as many Holmes stories as a I could. That’s when I discovered it was a Sherlock Holmes story. When it went on sale at my audiobook supplier, I grabbed it. I had noticed that House of Silk seemed to be a really Big, Important book for hi, but I didn’t really know why. I particularly enjoyed his Hawthorne and Horowitz books. I’ve been really enjoying some various Anthony Horowitz adult books. So he wore a beard of bees, he was tucked into bed by Prime Minster Stephen Harper, he pulled a sleeping polar bear out of its den and he had lots of crazy adventures with Jann Arden. And soon it was established that if Rick could be put in danger or humiliated, well, that was the show right there–locals getting the best of the snooty Toronto TV guy.

So Rick travelled around the country and rode on “The Train of Death” (fortunately, the book comes with pictures). And he would go to check it out and show the rest of the country. They decided that everywhere in Canada there was something interesting happening. They didn’t really have a plan for the show–it was all kind of seat of the pants until they were about to start filming. (It was going to be on Mondays and they figured if they called it that then the CBC would never move it). He talks about how the show was spun off from This Hour Has 22 Minutes and was originally The Monday Report. He explains that the premise of this book and indeed of his show was “What does it mean to be Canadian?”. So this book picks up where his previous memoir finished–just as he was about to start The Rick Mercer Report. Well, this book goes some way to take the blinds off how the show worked. For reasons I can’t fathom, politicians agree to hang out with Rick even though in the next segment he will rant about their incompetence. There seems to be so much more openness to politicians there than in our system. I’m sure that much of this difference is the way Canada is structured.

He puts all American political commentators to shame.

Rick Mercer is a great political comedian. I loved his show and now I love his print. I guess I’ll have to track that book down too. Since then I’ve read a couple of his other books, but I missed the first part of this memoir, Talking to Canadians. Sixteen years ago I read Rick Mercer’s first book.

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