The Man Who Was Thursday is my first venture into the writing of G.K. Chesterton having discovered the existence of this writer earlier in the year. Of course the first I heard of him was in reference to his Father Brown stories, one volume of which I have on my to read stack. I then heard that his ...
Other thoughts/reviews:The Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/oct/07/man-who-was-thursday-review?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+theguardian%2Fbooks%2Frss+%28Books%29
Exciting as a detective/mystery story, with a few touches of humor, but the whole allegorical/metaphysical/philosophical/socio-political thing was lost on me.I feel like a child brought to watch a critically-acclaimed play, and my only take away was that "the bad man was scary" and "the costumes wer...
An excellent thriller about a police officer who infultrates a group of anarchists in 1900 London. I really enjoyed the first 2/3 rds of this book, but can't quite figure out why the author chose to take it in a different direction in the last 3rd.
This one left me feeling underwhelmed. I listened to it on audio, and the audio production was . . . good. The writing, too, seemed . . . good. I feel indifferent about the political message, but, like, sure. True believers are the more dangerous sort of activists. I’ll ride that train. Overal...
‘Humanity crushed once again’. ‘50 dead, 120 injured’. ‘Grave face of terror strikes again’. Familiar headlines scream through the pages of the newspapers each time a bomb goes off annihilating blameless lives. Through teeth gritting resilience, public outcry resonates through the deafened ears of f...
The first half of this book is amazing, wonderful and very tightly conceived but I think it loses itself a little in the second half, when they go after Sunday. It is still memorable, though, and scenes have stayed with me. The ending is odd, as I was warned, but not uncharacteristic and I think it ...
Loving it.. Looking forward to a suitably surreal conclusion... Not sure this one will be a re-read although I really enjoyed it, notwithstanding the "Dallas dream" scenario!
Did you ever watch The Prisoner? Remember how it was really weird but you could still sort of follow it from episode to episode, and you kept watching because in the end, you figured it would make a kind of sense? And then it didn't, because the ending was really weird?Yeah.
Kingsley Amis said this book was "the most thrilling book I've ever read." All I can say is that Mr. Amis must have been a man who was easily thrilled.The subtitle, "A Nightmare," is a pretty good description of the writing in the book. And reading it was "A Torture."
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