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Old 09-10-2025, 06:54 AM   #7511 (permalink)
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Perfect for a lazy day in bed with a light covid brain fog. Reread the justly famous "The Adventure of the Speckled Band," now reading "The Boscombe Valley Mystery," which I only vaguely remember. Also want to reread "The Adventure of the Devil's Foot," which like the Speckled Band is one of the clearly gothic-tinged ones and might be my all time favorite Holmes story.


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Old 09-18-2025, 03:02 PM   #7512 (permalink)
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Hitchens in hilarious form. Maugham is my mom's favorite writer, god knows why

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Born and brought up in France, Maugham lost his parents when quite young and from then on was farmed to mean relatives and cruel, monastic boarding schools. The traditional ration of bullying, beating, and buggery seems to have been unusually effective in his case, leaving him with a frightful lifelong speech impediment and a staunch commitment to homosexuality... An ideal way to "lock in" homosexual disposition is probably to spend time as a gynecologist in a slum district of London—which, astonishingly enough, is what the fastidious young man did.
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Old 09-22-2025, 08:24 AM   #7513 (permalink)
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Superb writing that cuts through a vast body of generalities we're used to passively accept about NK (that it's a "Stalinist" regime or that it relies exclusively on repression or that it can be negotiated with). The truth is apparently far, far creepier.

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Old 10-05-2025, 04:36 AM   #7514 (permalink)
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Perfect for a lazy day in bed with a light covid brain fog. Reread the justly famous "The Adventure of the Speckled Band," now reading "The Boscombe Valley Mystery," which I only vaguely remember. Also want to reread "The Adventure of the Devil's Foot," which like the Speckled Band is one of the clearly gothic-tinged ones and might be my all time favorite Holmes story.


Can't stop rereading Holmes stories. "The Adventure of the Copper Beeches" is up there with the Speckled Band and the Devil's Foot. ****ing delightful!
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Old 10-06-2025, 08:49 AM   #7515 (permalink)
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A little gem of a book by a very great historian

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Old 10-11-2025, 05:08 AM   #7516 (permalink)
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"The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb" - another vaguely Gothic Holmes story. Spooky and memorable.
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Old 10-13-2025, 01:44 PM   #7517 (permalink)
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sounds interesting
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Old 10-16-2025, 08:32 AM   #7518 (permalink)
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sounds interesting
Holmes stories are lots of fun.

Do you know Poe's three Dupin stories? That's where detective fiction began. And they were translated into French by Baudelaire!
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