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» Friday, March 08, 2002
By the time I got done downloading from www.cewindows.net, I had quite a "gang": old Zane Grey westerns, pulp detective books, a few more Mark Twain and Jules Verne novels, some H. Rider Haggard, even an Oliver Optic epic, a Tom Swift book, and one volume of "The Go-Ahead Boys." Right now I'm reading Raffles: Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman. One feels sympathetic yet exasperated for our narrator, Raffles' old school chum "Bunny," who's thrilled by Raffles' exploits, but who follows him blindly most of the time, unable to be his own man. Raffles inspired some movies in the past, but it must be the idea of the character, a charming gentleman thief, more than the execution, because after a while A.J. becomes a bit much. ----------------------------------------------------------------
. . . . . noted and logged by Linda at 11:53:00 PM 
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