oh my, Father Brown is even better than Hercule Poirot! ha ha Really enjoyed it. He finds the truth in a crime with such brilliancy that you got fascinated from the first page. That’s why, I take it, it's listed at the top of whodunits.
Okay, have actually (hate the phrase, but...) laughed out loud already and only a short way in. Marvelous way with a phrase, but then he's known for that in his theological writings so I guess it carries over nicely to his fiction.How can you not enjoy this sort of character description:"The little...
GK Chesterton is one of my favorite authors. He was possessed of a huge intellect, immense jollity, a flair for the fantastic, and a profoundly childlike sense of wonder, all combined with a genuine love of words. Words were his toys. Reading his books, it is easy to see how much he enjoyed playi...
After finishing the first story in this book, I had high hopes that, like Maurice Leblanc's Arsene Lupin, Chesterton's Father Brown would be another wonderful Project Gutenberg find for me. I enjoyed the reveal at the end of the first story, when Father Brown proved himself to be less naive then he ...
Lots of fun! Father Brown sort of reminds me of a Catholic Matlock; good old fashioned common sense with a dash of "gut feeling". I found there was a definite slant toward the religious, especially when all those lacking in the "proper" faith were killed off, lol!
A bout with the flu had me searching for books that were not too taxing on the brain. I also don't like to read twaddle, so what to read that was worth reading? G.K. Chesterton's "Father Brown" stories were a wonderful present from my kind and loving mother. A very different detective than many o...
Really awful Christian propaganda posing as murder mysteries. I was poised to like Chesterton, based solely on a few of his quotes I’d stumbled upon and Neil Gaiman’s good opinion. It’s true that the mysteries themselves are quite interesting. Unfortunately, Chesterton has a narrowness of view. In t...
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