I started reading this in high school and never finished it. I should give it another try.

Never give one example when three will do; that is G. K. Chesterton's motto. Most people probably get the feeling that he makes a witty point and then runs it into the ground once or twice a page. But it is an entertaining style and there is a complex and coherent line of reasoning behind his one-liners. (Three-liners, really.) ( )

Chesterton is a genius, a philosopher, a writer and an apologetic. His insights about life, religion, disbelief and civilization are remarkable, well-founded and refreshing. Disappointingly, he's one of the most underappreciated personalities of the 20th century. ( )

The book that shook C.S. Lewis down from the trees of unbelief. It is so many things at once and it covers so much that it's hard to begin to describe it, but basically it is a certifiable masterpiece "big picture" overview and defense of the Catholic/Christian worldview written in reaction to H.G. Wells' "The Outline of History". ( )

Chesterton was a quick wit, but he was also a true genius, and this book--one of the greatest, and most unique works of Christian apologetics ever penned--is perhaps his best. Knowing Chesterton, he probably wrote it in a pub over a few weekends, but every chapter is just bursting with new and unconventional insights, not just on Jesus and the Gospels, but on prehistory, pagan religion, modern sociology and eighty-nine other topics. I particularly liked his idea of mankind being born in a cave--from the evidence of cave art (although he is humorously sceptical about what we can and cannot deduce from it)--and then born again (through the birth of Jesus) in a cave. (The stable, apparently, is a later gloss on the story. Is there textual evidence for this?) I guiltily admit to only having read The Everlasting Man only once, but I vow to reread it many more times. ( )