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... to Chester, “Men of your capacity plot in secrecy and safety, and leave exposed posts to the duller wits.” Despite what G K Chesterton said in his critical review, we all know the Chesters of this world.
Hard Times was my least favourite until I boned up on the politicians and ... ... ter
V for Vendetta by Alan Moore
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
Fight Club or almost anything by Chuck Palaniuk
Demian by Hermann Hesse
There's a very ... ... by Lois Duncan
All I Really Need To Know I Learned In Kindergarten by Robert Fulghum
The Man Who Knew Too Much by Gilbert K. Chesterton ... month I've read Flying Inn, Wuthering Heights, For Whom the Bell Toll, Seize the Day, Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Manalive.
Currently I'm reading Human Action, City of God and Grapes of Wrath.
I'll try to read also Big Fisherman and maybe The Great Gatsby or The Pickwic ... G.K. Chesterton's Heretics, a "prequel" to his Orthodoxy. (Blast these inaccurate touchstones!) It's kind of interesting. Like reading a colorful, incendiary op-ed page from the nineteen-oughts. Also, some weird tales by M.R. James, Robert William Chambers, Lord Dunsany, and the ... Finished the Dudley Barker biography G.K. Chesterton and have now added Marconi by W.P. Jolly and The Proud Tower by Barbara Tuchman to my nonfiction reading for this week. I finished up a very good biography on G. K. Chesterton by Dudley Barker. This week I should finish up The Warden by Anthony Trollope, and then I will be reading The Quiet American by Graham Greene, Marconi by W.P. Jolly, The Confessor by Daniel Silva, The Secret Hist ... ... Trollope
The Confessor and The English Assassin by Daniel Silva
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
G.K. Chesterton by Dudley Barker
The Proud Tower by Barbara Tuchman
Evan and Elle by Rhys Bowen
. . . and why some of the author's touchstones are ... I noticed few people mentioned a book (save the Bible) but The Great Divorce is an excellent read. I'd throw in Manalive by Chesterton, The Book of Hours by Rilke, any of George McDonald's Fairy Tales, Madeline L'engle's works especially The Time Quartet, and good ol' St. Au ...
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