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  <title><![CDATA[The Innocence of Father Brown]]></title>
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  <default_description>&quot;How in Tartarus,&quot; cried Flambeau, &quot;did you ever hear of the spiked bracelet?&quot; -- &quot;Oh, one's little flock, you know!&quot; said Father Brown, arching his eyebrows rather blankly. &quot;When I was a curate in Hartlepool, there were three of them with spiked bracelets.&quot; * Not long after he published _Orthodoxy,_ G. K. Chesterton moved from London to Beaconsfield, and met Father O'Connor. O'Connor had a shrewd insight to the darker side of man's nature, and a mild appearance to go with it -- and together those came together to become Chesterton's unassuming Father Brown. Chesterton loved the character, and the magazones he wrote for loved the stories. _The Innocence of Father Brown_ was the first collection of them, and it's a great lot of fun.  &quot;Father Brown is a direct challenge to the conventional detective and in many ways he is more amusing and ingenious.&quot; -- Saturday Review</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1956</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[G.K. Chesterton]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Cuando compré este libro, recomendado por Juan Mari, he de reconocer que lo hice sin muchas perspectivas de empezarlo en breve. Había intentado leer una biografía de S. Francisco de Asis del mismo autor, sin  superar la página 10. <br/><br/>Sin embargo, he de reconocer que me ha encantado. Me ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45061431">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Oct 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Chesterton's Father Brown mysteries are unlike anything else he wrote. There's a bit of an irony here in that Chesterton was himself a Christian and in later years a Catholic as well, and the majority of his works, both fiction and nonfiction, dealt with Christianity and the human condition. Yet in ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74151852">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2002</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not only are these among the best detective stories ever written, but this particular edition is edited by a complete madman whose footnotes are nearly as entertaining as the text.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[If you haven't come across the Father Brown stories (I'm surprised how few reviews there are), then they are worth reading. G.K. Chesterton is much more entertaining than your average Christian apologist, and if only the basic assumption of these books actually were true then I would feel a lot more...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40533840">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Am a huge fan of GKC, and this book didn't disappoint, but what I wanted to address what the criticism in another review of his religious bigotry. Such a critique perhaps fits better on some of CS Lewis' work, such as the Lion, Witch and Wardrobe, which is a rather transparent retelling of the gospe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33959801">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="3794565">
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  <read_at>Thu Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Really awful Christian propaganda posing as murder mysteries. I was poised to like Chesterton, based solely on a few of his quotes I’d stumbled upon and Neil Gaiman’s good opinion. It’s true that the mysteries themselves are quite interesting. Unfortunately, Chesterton has a narrowness of view...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3794565">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Oct 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I come away from this collection of short stories with a distinct image of humble little Father Brown ambling alongside his giant of a friend Flambeau. Father Brown is a Catholic priest with an uncanny intuition in matters criminal. The characters are whimsical and the crimes quite absurd, yet Fathe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73922314">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="68337622">
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  <read_at>Fri Aug 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Meh. The stories are almost too short to get any joy out of the plotting, but yet there are still holes. I don't tend to like mysteries that are very &quot;atmospheric&quot; anyway--there's too much mysticism about good and evil and walks in dark forests, etc, for me. Lots of period racism in these ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68337622">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Oh... bother.  Depending on the vivid-ness of your imagination, I'm thinking that it would be concievable for this book to be R rated.  It's hardly gory... But a quick warning, there IS violence.<br/><br/>That being said, this is a classic book by an incredible Christian man, G.K.Chesterton.  His ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55723409">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A bout with the flu had me searching for books that were not too taxing on the brain.  I also don't like to read twaddle, so what to read that was worth reading?  <br/><br/>G.K. Chesterton's &quot;Father Brown&quot; stories were a wonderful present from my kind and loving mother.  A very different...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42627546">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="49537098">
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  <read_at>Wed Apr 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this on the recommendation of my 14 year old grandson who claims Chesterton is the best mystery writer EVER! My grandson just might be right. Clearly Chesterton is a highly intelligent story-crafter. This collection of short stories about Father Brown kept me awake and alert and ALWAYS surpri...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49537098">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Feb 18 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Chesterton's language is quite lovely, in a dreamy, bejeweled kind of way.  The initial stories in the book are like that, but then lose their luster and become more nightmarish and moralistic as the book progresses, and I finished with a stale taste in my mouth.  I think he would have done better t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46796748">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Jun 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The first time I've read Chesterton, and I'm enjoying it. The short mysteries are good ones, and I really like the characters of Father Brown and Flambeau... Each mystery is unique, and I'm looking forward to reading the rest of the Father Brown mysteries. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ah, Father Brown. I do like him. Even though some of the stories are far-fetched (and that is putting it nicely), I enjoy them. I like Father Brown's perspective and philosophy. There is a lot of humour in the stories, mainly based on very perceptive observations of life, which adds to their enjoyab...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62529755">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have heard a lot about the Father Brown mysteries, but never read any until this one.  I was disappointed because I was expecting a novel, but instead found a complilation of short stories in which Brown unravels several mysteries.  Each story follows the same pattern: a mystery is presented, Fath...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28023918">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Locked room-type mystery short stories.  Father Brown is a self-effacing character.  One of the early (1911) mystery classics.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Another <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.librivox.org">www.librivox.org</a> podcast. A fine collection of interesting and puzzling crimes. Will listen to more.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Apr 25 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Fri Apr 25 20:32:51 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[3 to 4 stars, but I'll give it the nod to 4 stars since it's both literary and charming. In fact, it's literary enough to be a bit of a challenge to read (for me). Other objection: Chesterton leaves it up to the reader to fill in the blanks a little too much, come denouement time. <br/><br/>Still,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21010306">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Aug 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Aug 17 21:39:19 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Aug 20 07:04:52 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Well, I love Chesterton's writing style and I love mysteries so this is a great book for me!]]></body>
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  <date_added>Sun Mar 29 09:28:23 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Mar 29 09:28:35 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[A Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide Must-Read Crime Novel]]></body>
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