Ride Theory rated Snuff: 4 stars
Snuff by Terry Pratchett (A Discworld Novel)
"The 39th installment in the New York Times bestselling "Discworld" canon from Terry Pratchett, "the purely funniest English writer since …
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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I scroll through the "Random" feature of Project Gutenberg for unusual e-books, which I read on my hopelessly outdated Kindle.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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Ride Theory started reading Snuff by Terry Pratchett (A Discworld Novel)
"The 39th installment in the New York Times bestselling "Discworld" canon from Terry Pratchett, "the …
Ride Theory rated Simple Sabotage Field Manual: 5 stars
Simple Sabotage Field Manual by United States Office of Strategic Services
"Simple Sabotage Field Manual" by United States. Office of Strategic Services is a historical publication written during the early 1940s, …
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"Simple Sabotage Field Manual" by United States. Office of Strategic Services is a historical publication …
This is great.
Ride Theory commented on X. Jones of Scotland Yard. by Harry Stephen Keeler
One of Keeler's best, this is the second half of the notorious Marceau case, where …
I have reached the place that one reaches in every HSK novel where one thinks, "Are you fuckin' kidding me?"
Ride Theory started reading Wordless workshop by Roy Doty
I'm going to count this wordless comic as reading, because it really engages my brain. It's a brilliant pantomime strip.
Ride Theory started reading X. Jones of Scotland Yard. by Harry Stephen Keeler
One of Keeler's best, this is the second half of the notorious Marceau case, where …
Kindle ebook from Wildside Press.
Ride Theory finished reading Out from Boneville by Jeff Smith (Bone, #1)
"After being run out of Boneville, the three Bone cousins - Fone Bone, Phoney Bone, …
I had never read any of the Bone comics before, and I enjoyed this. Walt Kelly and Chuck Jones influence galore.
Ride Theory rated Petit Bonsai: 4 stars
Ride Theory rated The lives of Sacco & Vanzetti: 5 stars
The lives of Sacco & Vanzetti by Rick Geary (A treasury of XXth century murder)
Ride Theory started reading The lives of Sacco & Vanzetti by Rick Geary (A treasury of XXth century murder)
Rick Geary is hugely underrated.
Ride Theory rated You gotta have wa: 4 stars
You gotta have wa by Whiting, Robert. (Vintage departures)
A hilarious, informative, and riveting account of Japanese baseball and the cultural clashes that ensued when Americans began playing there …
Ride Theory started reading You gotta have wa by Whiting, Robert. (Vintage departures)
A hilarious, informative, and riveting account of Japanese baseball and the cultural clashes that ensued …
Read this years ago.
Ride Theory started reading California in depth by Jim Crain
Re-read.
Ride Theory reviewed Raffles by E. W. Hornung (Raffles, #1)
First published in 1899, The Amateur Cracksman was the first collection of stories detailing the …
Delightful Inversion
5 stars
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.