Stapleton is a bit off his rocker, but from a practical standpoint, if Sir Henry and Sir Charles are killed by the specter of a family curse, he's not a potential suspect. "What a terrible, spooky accident," the police say. By contrast, if the baronets get shot to death, the police look for a human murderer with a gun.

He forces his wife, who he constantly beats, to pretend to be his sister even before he hears the Hugo Baskerville story from Dr Mortimer and thinks "A cursed ghost dog, yeah that's the way to fucking murder my uncle and cousin so I get their money". Makes no sense whatsoever.

Not trying to be oppositional, but how does it contribute to a stronger community by checking out a book instead of buying? I contribute to my library, and I check out books or authors I'm unsure of, but I buy most of my books. I dont move often, I get that point. I just don't understand how checking out a book improves community.

There are worse habits!

But I second the suggestion to get a library card --- you can enjoy browsing there just as much.

Stapleton is off his gourd, pretends his sister is his wife or something, and collects butterflies in the swamp. So yeah...he thinks this is a good plan.

Same!

Buying. I still support my library by renting movies, games, and some books when binging. But I like to buy my books. Books I read are part of my history. When I walk into my personal library, it transports me to emotions and feelings just by reading a title.

I read like 90 nonfiction books last year and have remembered maybe 1 books worth of content. Doesn’t mean it wasn’t worth my time

The top comment is what I also suggest! Normally what I do is I go into a bookstore with my phone, and I take pictures of the books that I'm interested in. I take my time, look at what I'd like to look at and immediately leave. My friends make sure that I don't buy anything. When I get home, I look through the photos and I google them and see if they're at my library. I normally get them there, and if I don't read them then I don't end up buying them. If I do end up reading them and they're amazing, I wait until I read 2 books off of my TBR and then I buy it. It's worked for me for awhile! Before that I was buying every book I saw. It was a lot and really hard at first.

I borrow books from the library first and then determine if I liked the book and would want to reread it again. And if that's the case then I will buy the book. That way if I didn't like the book then I don't have to feel guilty about not liking a book I paid for. Plus if I'm really not liking a book and don't want to finish it then I can return it right away.

If there's a specific book you want to borrow and the library doesn't have it I recommend using two apps one is called Libby and the other is called Hoopla. These apps give you the choice between an ebook or audio book. So if your library doesn't have the physical book available then you have a couple of other options to choose from.

As for annotating books I love to do that. So if you find a book you want to reread buy the physical book and annotate it to your hearts content. :) That's my method of reading. :)

I use a local bookswap. So when I’m done reading I swap them out for someone else to read. I’ve also found loads of good books there. I also give them to family members who also read. Sharing is caring

I never buy books. I read way too much for that, I’d be both bankrupt and drowning in a house of pages. Libraries are wonderful.

I started to visit an italian literature club. It's really fun, we talk about the book for an hour, then about two hours of homemade snacks, wine, laughter and catching up with people, while brushing up on my italian. It's basically an excuse for socializing and it's great!

I prefer borrowing. I love libraries and want to support them, and it’s more convenient for me and free, so that’s a plus.

But if I bought, say, the first book in a series to try it out and want to continue, I prefer to then buy the other books in that series so I have it complete, instead of buying some and borrowing some.

But it's risky as hell, he had witnesses of his wife, the caretaker of the dog while he was playing detective and stealing footwear wearing a fake beard in London for no fucking reason, and the odds of it failing were huge. Am I the only one who got possessed by Scott Evil's soul and thought "Just fucking shoot him!"?

Circlejerk . . . Beatings, labor camps? Sheesh.

In universe, my reasoning is that he hoped that Sir Henry died out of sheer fear, or that he got actually killed by the dog in such a way that can't be tracked back to him. You know what they say? Small Town, Big Hell. Ultimately, he saw a chance of not getting directly involved and took it.

I haven't read this book since high school so I can't answer your question but I am absolutely fucking ROLLING at this post.

Our book club is very casual. We chat about the book. Sometimes we have a lot to discuss and it’s very interesting, sometimes we don’t so we talk about other books we’ve read that we really enjoyed. If I take notes I do take them to the meeting. You can attend even if you don’t like the book or if you didn’t even try it; if they object to that maybe it’s not the group for you (I wouldn’t like that, though I usually read the books even when they don’t look interesting to me). Go ahead and attend and see how you like it, and how you like that particular group. No one in my book club likes every book every month, but if this group never picks anything you like that might be another reason to try a different group - although I have to say that one thing I like about being in a book club is it makes me read things I would not have picked myself, and I’ve ended up loving a lot of those!!

Out of universe, part of the reason is because Sir Arthur Conan Doyle got inspiration from a story about an English nobleman. He likely would have begun the story with the idea of using a spectral dog to take the blame and then written from there, resulting in the unclear reasoning behind Stapleton's actions that you're asking about.

In universe, I have no idea.

That’s interesting to compare it to The Wire. They are similar in having 5 parts with very different qualities. Also, in people saying Part 2 is boring. It’s probably ill-advised, but I wonder if anyone ever dove in to write a comparison.

I read 2666 in Spanish, my second language. It took me forever (pandemic year) but I feel it was worth it because the writing was amazing.

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I borrow all from the library first then if I love them and want to reread I buy it.

Thank you so much!

It was Hannah Gadsby's Ten Steps to Nanette. We all really appreciated the book and took different things away from it. If you plan to read it, I would recommend watching her Netflix special, "Nanette", prior to reading it. It makes the book make more sense.