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43. Generation Kill by Evan Wright
44. Restless by William Boyd
45. The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton
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46. The Cutie by Donald E. Westlake
47. I Served the King of England by Bohumil Hrabal
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I know that Neil Gaiman is a big Chesterton fan, he is referenced all through The Sandman works. I have read The Man Who was Thursday and liked it a lot. Also read The Napoleon of Notting Hill, which was not so easy for me to understand. I love Orthodoxy. If you haven't read the Father Brow ...
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...which is from a poem called "The Old Song."
A Google search for "Chesterton Armageddon" also revealed a book called The Man who was Thursday .
I am at a disadvantage, because I have only read Chesterton's non-fiction, such as Orthodoxy.
Now I am wanting to read some of his fiction, ...
Marensr, a fellow Chesterton lover, told me about performances of The Man Who Was Thursday at the Lincoln Park Cultural Center. We went together with my husband on Friday, and he's wisely suggested I post about it, here. Despite the sort of quibbles true fans would have, especially with so ...
Hmm I seem to be in the minority, The Man Who Was Thursday is my favorite although I enjoyed the Father Brown Mysteries and The Napoleon of Notting Hill, Four Faultless Felons is still on my TBR list.
agmlll thanks for the link to the Gaiman blog. I am interested in what he thinks of Cheste ...
... I might have been a bit put off by his opinions (although I probably wouldn't have read the essays anyway, if I hadn't read The Man Who Was Thursday and Basil Howe), but I do think he's a very entertaining writer.
What you say about your husband is amusing - I was thinking that I can see ...
... was absolutely fantastic. My review, with some quotes, is here: http://www.librarything.com/review/28220113
I liked The Man Who Was Thursday , but enjoyed Napoleon more. I have some more of his books (The Man Who Knew Too Much, The Flying Inn, Four Faultless Felons), but I haven't ...
... my favorites are the Father Brown stories, the Autobiography, and Tremendous Trifles a collection of essays. I've read The Man Who Was Thursday and didn't like it as much as these others.
Does anyone else have any more favorites?
... Trifles, a collection of essays, and liked it very much. Any collection of his essays would probably be good. There is The Man Who was Thursday which is probably his most famous work. The Autobiography of G. K. Chesterton is also an excellent book.
... by Jonathan Carroll
Gilligan's Wake by Tom Carson
The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman by Carter
The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton
The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop. by Robert Coover
The Translator by John Crowley
...
I think The Man who was Thursday is pretty neat.
121. The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton
#11 - I enjoyed the Father Brown series. I also enjoyed The Man Who Was Thursday .
... entire season. I have to say i am not much of a fan myself. But some of the commercials make me laugh!
Hope you enjoy The Man Who Was Thursday , BJ. I discovered it in the book 501 Must Read Books. I have gotten quite a few good suggestions from that book!
#28 - Sleep No More - Joh ...
... gore, or abject comedy. Romance just isn't my cup of tea!
I moved on to a classic novella for the next book---
#27 -- Th Man Who Was Thursday -- This book is part thriller, part fantasy, and even part comedy. It is certainly a strange combination, and not always successful.
The was ...
... and its only a novella!! That is no reflection on the book, just "real life" getting in the way of my reading.
The Man Who Was Thursday
This book is part thriller, part fantasy, and even part comedy. It is certainly a strange combination, and not always successful.
The was ...
God Sends Sunday Arna Bontemps
The Saturday Wife Naomi Ragen
The Man Who Was Thursday G.K. Chesterton
The Sunday Philosophy Club Alexander McCall Smith
Friday's Child Georgette Heyer
I'm looking forward to the unicorn book! As far as Chesterton goes, The Man Who Was Thursday is pretty different from the rest of his books. Most of them are mysteries with a 'supernatural' feel, which turn out to have a logical explanation, if rather weird or spooky. Which makes him sound like Sc ...
... about mine--thanks). You've read a very interesting assortment of books, but found it interesting you recently finished The Man Who Was Thursday by Chesterton because "Me too" this week. I read the Father Brown mysteries years ago, but added this one to my 999 Challenge because I'd never ...
Another week of reading:
The Man who was Thursday by G K Chesterton
Category: New to Me Authors
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A very very odd book. One of those like The Third Policeman who you think you might go insane reading it. I nearly gave up ...
Nearly finished The Man Who was Thursday by G K Chesterton which is for my New to Me Authors category. Very odd but I think I like it.
Next will probably be The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M Cain for the 1001 category, which is another short book.
...
City of Glass by Paul Auster
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 Herman ...
Stasia and Carolyn,
Thanks for recommending The Man Who Was Thursday . At first the ending (or lack of it) bothered me, but I've reconciled myself to it now and I'm glad I read it.
Just got back from our weekend away and I got a LOT of reading done. It was an 8 hour trip each way and I read ...
Angela
Have a great time this weekend!
I read The Man Who Was Thursday last year and this was my comment on it: "A fantastical story with more twists and turns than a labyrinth; this was a great read. I was able to anticipate some of the “surprises” but that in no way diminished my ...
I love The Man Who Was Thursday . Glad to have found another fan.
34. The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesteron
Wow. I don't really know what to say about this book. I have to admit that never in my adult life have I been more confused while reading a book! But that's usually a good thing. For instance, if I figure everything out before the characters ...
... anything else by Chesterton? I highly recommend the Father Brown stories.
One of my favorite books by Chesterton is The Man Who Was Thursday , which is a very fantastical tale with lots of twists and turns and a point to be made at the end. Not to everyone's taste but I found it ...
Finished Messengers of God By Weisel; back to The Man Who Was Thursday (all things being equal).
I'm reading The Haunting aka The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson, and The Man Who Was Thursday by GK Chesterton.
Also got a couple of fluff reads on the go but have not picked them up much recently: Dead as a Scone by Ron Benrey, and The Darling Buds of May by HE Bates
MusicMom, I have The Man Who Was Thursday on my wishlist - I just added it after all your recommendations.
CMT, I have had The Omnivore's Dilemma on my wishlist for quite some time - hopefully I will soon get to read it! I will have to check out Dancing in the Streets. I had not heard ...
... on my "your posts" list--I just had neglected to star you. That has been remedied.
alcottacre, TT, and Angela
re The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton was on my Top 5 Fiction Reads of 2008. It is very "quirky" and quite bizarre and yet really wonderful. Here are the comments I ...
Ficciones by Borges is fairly short page-count-wise if you want to zip through it although I enjoyed savouring it :-)
The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton's also reasonably short in my edition.
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day is wonderful and a very quick read.
Silence by Shusako En ...
Chesterton's The Man Who Was Thursday definitely gets my vote!
Am I alone in wishing Folio would publish an edition of Wells' Mr. Britling Sees it Through, perhaps illustrated with period photographs?
>31 Stasia, I couldn't stand The Man Who Was Thursday . I thought it was preposterous! Although, I know many others like it.
- TT
#29: If you like Chesterton, you must read The Man Who Was Thursday . It is very good!
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle is one of the books I am going to read this year. Thanks for your input on it.
... re)
a. Brave New World
b. Three Men In A Boat
c. Barchester Towers
d. The Man Who Was Thursday My Man Jeeves
... rage
Winspear, Jacqueline: Birds of a Feather
Orwell, George: Down and Out in Paris and London
Chesterton, G.K.: The Man Who Was Thursday
Top 5 (oops! 6) Nonfiction:
Wolf, Maryanne: Proust and the Squid
Mortenson, Greg & David Oliver Relin: Three Cups of Tea
Preston ...
... Birds of a Feather Msg 5
Orwell, George: Down and Out in Paris and London (BC 213) Msg 3
Chesterton, G.K.: The Man Who Was Thursday (BC 232) Msg 5
Top 5 (oops! 6) Nonfiction:
Wolf, Maryanne: Proust and the Squid (BC 306) Msg 202
Mortenson, Greg & David Oliver Re ...
Yes, The Napoleon of Notting Hill is as weird as The Man who was Thursday , but not in quite the same way. It's not so surreal.
I'm not familiar with the Chesterton. Is it as weird as The Man Who Was Thursday ?
... if you don't love it.
The Eyre Affair--this one is just pure fun--especially if you like Jane Eyre and mysteries.
The Man Who Was Thursday --another "quirky" novel which I read this year and really enjoyed. It's on my favorites list for this year. You do have to "go with the flow" in ...
... by Elie Wiesel (1/2009)
--Outlander by Diana Gabaldon (10/2009)
--The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham
--The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton (3/2009)
--TBD
... them as individual people with the same kind of attributes of goodness and evil that we all have.
Chesterton, G.K.: The Man Who Was Thursday
A fantastical story with more twists and turns than a labyrinth. The story is about a man who has been recruited to track down a master ...
... Christie
6. The Magus by John Fowles
7. Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges
8. Island by Aldous Huxley
9. The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton
10. The Glass Bead Game by Herman Hesse
Use touchstones! With that feature we should get an interesting list of classics ...
... (That Hideous Strength). They all stand completely on their own yet richly complement each other. Chesterton's Man Who Was Thursday is another request.
Okay. This was a greedy list. I'll be quiet for a while.
... and Seek
Maps and Legends
The New Nature Writing by Granta *
The Melancholy of Resistance +
Fall of Frost
The Man Who was Thursday
The Pornographer +
Arthur Rimbaud Complete Works
The Masque of the Red Death +
Unfeeling +
Encounters with the Archdruid
The Discov ...
... love, lost me a little bit. I wouldn't say that I didn't enjoy this, but it didn't capture my imagination in the way that The Man Who Was Thursday or Basil Howe did.
64) Evelyn Waugh - Brideshead Revisited: reading this at work, so still ongoing, but am enjoying it as much as I did ...
... love, lost me a little bit. I wouldn't say that I didn't enjoy this, but it didn't capture my imagination in the way that The Man Who Was Thursday or Basil Howe did.
64) Evelyn Waugh - Brideshead Revisited: reading this at work, so still ongoing, but am enjoying it as much as I did ...
... /strike>
2. Underground Man by Mick Jackson
3. The Flood by David Maine
4. The Man who was Thursday by G K ChestertonTales of the City by Armistead Maupin
6. The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
Once Upon a Time in the North The Man who was Thursday Died on a Rainy Sunday And in the Morning was Buried by Breakfast
... get more out of my animal watching in our backyards at home and in Vallejo.
Fiction: General
23. Chesterton, G.K.: The Man Who Was Thursday
A fantastical story with more twists and turns than a labyrinth. The story is about a man who has been recruited to track down a master ...
mr.norrell & musicmom - My daughter brought home The Man Who Was Thursday on Friday, I read it on Saturday.
I really liked it, thought I don't suppose I understood half of it. Love the way Chesterton phrases things and describes them. The descriptions of the different men representing the days ...
35. The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosinski
36. The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton
37. The Travels by Marco Polo
# 56 mr.strange
I loved The Man Who Was Thursday --but I like everything by G.K. Chesterton. I'd like to hear what you think of it when you get around to reading it.
... Birthday, bibliophool! Hope you have a super day.
Great cake, clamairy! Plus, it reminded me that I want to read The Man Who Was Thursday ! Sitting on my shelves, waiting for me.
... Borders,Barnes & Noble and the used book store i almost had to build a new bookcase.Riddlemasster,The Magicians Guild,The Man Who was Thursday ,midnight never come,knife of dreams,the curse of chalion,winter rose,winter rose by mckillip,a game of thrones,perdido street station,t ...
In this week's New Yorker (last week's too, because of the holiday), Adam Gopnik uses the centennial of The Man who was Thursday as a starting point for aiming to give a balanced assessment of G. K. Chesterton. I think he succeeds, but I've often been in a minority on LT about Chest ...
22. The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare - G.K. Chesterton
I read The Man Who Was Thursday on Friday and Saturday, read Peace over the weekend, and have now begun Jude the Obscure. I love the summer---a lighter workload means I can get more reading done. :)
... by Leo Tolstoy ***
4. The Third Policeman by Flann O’Brien ****
5. A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh ****½
6. The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton ***
7. Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis ***
8. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain ***½
As for other "1,001 ...
... Allingham
J: The Tuesday Club Murders , Agatha Christie
J: The French Powder Mystery , Ellery Queen
A: The Man Who Was Thursday The Crying Sisters , Mabel Seeley
O: The Dain Curse , Dashiell Hammett
N: The Old Man in the Corner ...
... Little Princess (1905), Frances Hodgson Burnett
7. The Secret Garden (1909), Frances Hodgson Burnett
8. The Man Who Was Thursday Howards End (1910), E. M. Forster
10. A Room with a View (1908), E. M. Forster
11. ...
... Dance Dance Dance. Molière finishes off my playwright category; Dickens performs the same duty for my Victorians. The Man Who Was Thursday fits into my 1001 catch-all category and the spanish language The Invention of Morel leaves me three other languages left to represent in my ...
Dance Dance Dance ***
by Haruki Murakami
04/25/08
Le Misanthrope ****
by Molière
04/72/08
The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare ***
by G. K. Chesterton
04/27/08
... works in this book. I confess I like From London Far better, although I'm only 30 pages in. It reminds me a bit of The Man Who Was Thursday , by G.K. Chesterton, just a bit. Hamlet, Revenge looks great--haven't read it yet.
17. The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton
... Nabokov ***½
3. The Third Policeman by Flann O’Brien ****½
4. A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh ****½
5. The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton ***
6. Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis ***
7. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain ***½
8. The Wings of the Dove ...
... even more the second time around. I also have just spent some time in a strange alternate London/North-Eastern France with The Man Who Was Thursday . I'm hoping to soon be in Haiti observing Reflections of Loko Miwa by Lilas Desquiron.
I've finally finished and reviewed The Man Who Was Thursday , here .
fyrefly98, can you read and review All Quiet on the Western Front please? I'd be interested to hear what you think of it!
Anyone picking for me, please ...
... Man should be read after I finish school. Clearly that's when I would need to know its lessons.
I find G.K. Chesterton's The Man Who Was Thursday enjoyable, but quite the philosophical blockbuster. It's like an intellectual action movie. It really is. Instead of bullets most of the time the ...
Praises be, I finished A Game of Thrones! So now I'm mostly reading The Man Who was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton, who I should have read some of before, and think it's fab so far. I should also try to finish Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, which I'm enjoying but somehow poetry makes my ...
... week front, A Game of Thrones is sucking me in, as philosojerk predicted on the last thread :-) I've also just been given The Man who was Thursday to read on GRTB, which I'm really looking forward to!
LizT, you should read The Man Who Was Thursday . I read it recently, and it rocked my world.
Whoever picks for me, anything is fine. This will be my very first review ever, so please be gentle.
... they left out all my favorite parts. /rant, moving onward.)
LT recommendations:
The End of Mr. Y by Scarlett Thomas
The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton (BTW, I love you, whoever you are whose library I was browsing when I saw this. Amazing.)
Book of Lost Things by John Connoll ...
The Man Who Was Thursday . It's not just a thriller, it's a philosophical blockbuster. A secret policeman must thwart Anarchists, who are not mere poets who ride bicycles and wear darned socks, as The Shadow of the Wind calls them, but "real" Anarchists, who want to destroy Right and Wrong, Right ...
The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton
The Complete Fairy Tales by The Brothers Grimm
Especially these two are quite good examples of old and newer fantasy, The Man Who Was Thursday is closer to Alice in Wonderland than it is to the Grimm brothers tales, though it could be argued that ...
I got The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton and The Complete Fairy Tales by The Brothers Grimm.
Now I'm a guy who's read widely, and I know they sanitized the Grimm's Fairy Tales for the Disney movies, but if I need warning that my childhood innocence is going to be shocked ...
... objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all."
G.K. Chesterton's The Man Who Was Thursday
... Meaulnes
3 A Room With A view
4 Catch 22
5 Persuasion
6 Posession
7 The Myth of Sisyphus and other essays
8 The Man Who Was Thursday
9 Flame Trees of Thika
10 A Room of One's Own
Honorable mention The Country of Pointed Firs Orlando The Razor's Edge
The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton
Thanks Tim! Yes this group is insane but I would like to see the anarchy group suggested in #14 it sounds like The Man Who Was Thursday .
10. The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton.
Pheww. I picked this up because a bookclub that I am in has selected the book for the month. It was hard to get into, but once into it, it raced along as the characters pursued their chases. The ending is still a mystery to me, and, ...
... on
The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks
The Man Who Used the Universe by Alan Dean Foster
The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton again
The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By by Georges Simenon
Why Do Men Have Nipples? Hundreds of Questions You'd Only Ask a Doctor After Your Third Martini by Mark leyner
The Airconditioned Nightmare by Henry Miller
Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame byCharles Bukowski
The Gutter and the Grave by Ed McBain
Petals of Bloo ...
Bed, Bed, Bed by They Might Be Giants
Dreams of Terror and Death by H. P. Lovecraft
The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare by G. K. Chesterton
Sandman: The Dream Hunters by Neil Gaiman
The Dream Detective by Sax Rohmer
... back and doing that now would take too long (I could read another book in the time that would take!).
January 2007
1. The Man Who Was Thursday : A Nightmare by G. K. Chesterton
2. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
3. Valley of the Shadow by Peter Tremayne
4. A Morbid ...
32. The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare by G.K. Chesterton
This was altogether a different novel than what I expected. However, I enjoyed it immensely.
... meaning behind all that frolicsome fol-de-rol.
I think that McGoohan was aiming for something along the lines of The Man Who was Thursday and wound up with something more like The Magical Mystery Tour.
There's my answer, without nods or winks.
>22
"Chesterton's The Man Who Was Thursday "
>33
"Is it wrong that I wish something would happen to her, just so it's all over at last?"
I have no opinion whatsoever WRT AsYouKnow_Bob 's nomination above, but maybe this GKC quote about TOCS will go a long way ...
Chesterton's The Man Who Was Thursday
If this doesn't feel appropriate to the group let me know and I can move or delete it, but I'm wondering if anyone has read The Man Who Was Thursday by Chesterton? If so, can you shed any light on the ending? I'm confused......What was Chesterton trying to say?
I finished Every Book its Reader yesterday morning, read Murder On Monday in the afternoon and started The Man Who Was Thursday last night. Murder on Monday was okay but I had trouble sticking with it as it felt really slow. Thursday has been good so far and I'm looking forward to finishing ...
I don't have many signed books, but the one I have which is irreplaceable is As It Was by the cricketer Fred Trueman, who died a few months ago. He did a few signings with it in the last year of his life.
... in a geographical location that gave your reading a certain flavor it otherwise would not have had (such as the time I read The Man Who Was Thursday while sitting in an otherwise empty student union at 2 a.m. while my girlfriend worked at her college newspaper web design job)?
Let's hear ...
... not my cup of tea. I'm enjoying Bodily Harm by Margaret Atwood a great deal more, and my husband and I are reading The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton together - great book, witty and multi-layered.
... involved in two untrained men trying to kill each other with their bare hands.
Someone also had to nudge me hard to read The Man Who Was Thursday , which I regard as an absolute revelation. (In more ways than one. :)
Out of curiosity, how do folks feel about Philip Pullman, in ...
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