Ride Theory finished reading Raffles, Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman by E. W. Hornung (Raffles, #2)

I like non-fiction.
Sometimes, I scroll through the "Random" feature of Project Gutenberg for unusual e-books, which I read on my hopelessly outdated Kindle.
The most frightening Twilight Zone episode is "Time Enough At Last," but fortunately, I take off my glasses to read.
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16% complete! Ride Theory has read 12 of 75 books.
I love the Raffles stories. They're a delightful inversion of the Sherlock Holmes stories, with the gay subtext /nearly/ laid bare. Bunny, the Dr. Watson analog, is absolutely in love with Raffles, and expresses his shame as though it were purely a symptom of their life of crime, but modern readers will see right through that.
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