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...what just happened?

I need to let this settle, I think. I feel like I didn't “get it“ at all; I don't think I enjoyed it, but I need to ponder. Maybe that sounds weird, but then this book is very weird.

The book starts out as a detective thriller, as a police officer infiltrates a cabal of anarchists, and the story gets more and more outrageous until it seems to become farce, but then it takes a very dark turn, and finally is maddeningly opaque at the close of the narrative. No wonder Chesterton subtitled the book “A Nightmare“. Yet, the story pulls the reader along without let-up -- I never considered not finishing it, as lost as I might be.

#bookspinbingo After reading a Sandman Volume, I was curious about an actual photo used in the comic. I found out from a friend it was the tagged author. I wanted to read his work after reading and hearing descriptions of the author. Chesterton is quoted often and had a dedication from Gaiman & Pratchett:

The authors would like to join the demon Crowley in dedicating this book to the memory of G.K. Chesterton, a man who knew what was going on

OK OK. Chesterton. I understand you predate the whole C.S. Lewis allegory juggernaut (I think). Seriously though. Is...what are you doing? Is it a Narnia adventure allegory, but for boys who wanted to be Inspector Lestrade? Or accountants? I am very Daniel Craig Knives Out about this.
#classicsivebeenputtingoff #MountTBR

A weird one! I don't know if this book is as... optimistic? as the author intended. I had a good time, even if I don't -entirely- get it.

Uh, this book rules

The description calls this book a thriller.
I didn't get thriller from the story. Then again, I am not sure I even GOT the story.
It was still enjoyable. Strange as that may seem. Won't be looking for more from this author any time soon though. I prefer more modern writing. 2⭐

The Inktober of Obscure Words #Day11 #Ephialtes : Nightmare
#Obscutober
@Nikolas_Tower (IG)

I don't know why I thought this would be a difficult/challenging book. So far I'm enjoying it.

#thoughtfulthursday
❶ End-of-semester papers. Ugh.
❷ Gyoza, yesterday. Stuffed my face good.
❸ Teaching and admin. No change for me since most of it was online already.
❹ “Fail. Fail again. Fail better.“ Samuel Beckett.

A weird book that could have been an excellent thriller satire. For the full review, please visit http://benjamin-m-weilert.com/index.php/2020/03/04/the-man-who-was-thursday-1908...

This is a well-written classic mystery thriller with a satirical send-up of anarchists and intellectuals - until the last chapter. I thouroughly enjoyed it through several reveals and twists, duels, chases, disguises, silly dialogue... but the end was a pseudo-Christian surreal wtf. I googled and supposedly Chesterton was speaking out against anarchism and pessimism of the era. I did not get it. Way to ruin an excellent thriller. ⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

#QuotsyMay19 Day 10: #Garden in GK Chesterton‘s novel. I haven‘t had the chance to read any of his books yet. This one sounds particularly intriguing.

#hellothursday #imaginationedition @wanderinglynn
1️⃣ On occasion. I will write it down if the dream is a good kernel for a story. Otherwise, not.
2️⃣ I'd have a cat (I live with allergic people) and I'd name it Banane or Broutille, or something else nonesensical.
3️⃣ Muad'dib, just so I could survive his jihad. Hopefully. Maybe.
4️⃣ Starfleet Headquarters, or Vulcan. Yes, they are literary too.
5️⃣ I'm super lucky that he needs no encouragement!

📓 French
🖇️ PE
🏅Theatre
🚌 We didn't have one
#hellothursday @wanderinglynn

Well.... Hmm.... That was interesting. It's not your ordinary mystery, though Cheaterton did not mean it to be. It's an allegorical commentary on relativism and casual intellectual rejection of faith, a commentary Chesterton claims is quite simple but I and others find very complex. Such is the nature of dreams -- to be complex.

1️⃣ Nope! I am a free reader!*
2️⃣ Being someone who as a child had their name changed without notice and had to deal with the legal ramifications in adulthood, the answer is no. Women do not take their husband's family name where I am from.
3️⃣ Can't say. I really don't listen to new music much at all. Or older music for that matter. I'm a podcast & radio person.
@GarthRanzz #trivialthursday
*ETA: Postal book club, though. Oups! 🤦

#TrivialThursday

1. Litsy, of course!
2. Whatever suits the story.
3. Working? Pretty much that‘s the answer to any given time period. Not complaining. Love my job.
4. @MidnightBookGirl !

1. GoodReads for tracking reading stats. Anyone can friend request me there from the link in my profile.

2. Narrative or 3rd person mostly. I can deal with first person, but it's not my favorite. I prefer to see the whole canvas, not just one perspective.

3. Read!

4. @geekybookgirl2

#TrivialThursday @GarthRanzz

“‘What are we going to do?‘ asked the Professor.

‘At this moment,‘ said Syme, with a scientific detachment, ‘I #think we are going to smash into a lamppost.‘”

#QuotsyFeb18

I read this book years ago, largely because the character/location Fiddler‘s Green in Neil Gaiman‘s Sandman was based on Chesterton.

#secret #QuotsyFeb18

The situation regarding the main characters was pretty easy to figure out, so I'm hoping for a more significant twist in the final quarter. Regardless, excellent narration.

The MC was a #terrificThursday. 😀#spookyOctober @Jess7

What a beautiful cover!

Love this book, definitely one to read more than once.

"The poor have been rebels, but they have never been anarchists; they have more interest than anyone else in there being some decent government. The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn‘t; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all." #audiobook

I started my #audiobook experiment with this novel. I've not read any fiction by #Chesterton before, only his nonfiction, so this is a double experiment. #loyalbooks #librivox

"I have a suspicion that you are all mad...but God forbid that madness should in any way interrupt friendship."

Hadn't heard of this one until adding it to Serial Reader today, but it immediately went in my Read Later queue.

A detective uses his new anarchist friend's love of poetry to infiltrate an underground anarchist society only to find... well you'll have to read it and see! Often described as a metaphysical thriller.

The first half of this was incredible - the writing was beautiful and witty with typical dry English humour and I laughed a lot. But then it went dry without the humour and I found myself wondering what the book was about. Capitalism? Religion? Both? Something else? I need to read it again I think.

This book is so good already. I'm confused about why it's taken me so long to read Chesterton.

Probably the best sunset I've ever read.

My current read- love a good spy story.

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Being surrounded with every conceivable kind of revolt from infancy, Gabriel had to revolt into something, so he revolted into the only thing left- sanity.