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Copy/paste the text below into your blog. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/184419.The_Man_Who_Was_Thursday_A_Nightmare?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare (Modern Library Classics)" border="0" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/photo.goodreads.com/books/1172522672m/184419.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/184419.The_Man_Who_Was_Thursday_A_Nightmare?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/27973.G_K_Chesterton">G.K. Chesterton</a><br/><br/> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5658415?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a> plot summary: what happens, when & where, central characters, major conflicts[return]detective syme embarks upon a strange adventure after meeting a man spouting anarchist poetry in the park. he engages him in a poetical debate and ends up following him to a secret meeting of a group of anarchists, who are about to elect their next representitive to the central anarchist council--"thursday" (the council members going by alias's named after the days of the week). along the way syme promised not to reveal the secrets of the anarchists to the police, and he finds himself in an ever increasing peril as he ends up getting elected to the council and meeting the dreadful "sunday". however, the story starts to get wierder and wierder, as one by one he discovers the secrets of the other members of the council and embarks on a bizarre chase.[return][return][return][return][return][return][return]style characterisics: pacing, clarity, structure, narrative devices, etc.[return]chesterton's use of language is poetical and full of wonderful metaphors, especially the way he describes the sky. the scenes he paints are vivid and striking, and the characters dialogue is quite witty and full of english humor. the plot is pretty straightforward, though it takes some wild leaps out of normalcy and into the absurd, so that the reader's imagination is stretched. this isn't just a simple story, and it is one to puzzle over for hidden and deeper meanings, or else it makes you wonder if the author isn't just having fun in turning things on their head, while making some philisophical points along the way.[return][return][return][return][return][return][return]how good is it?[return]brilliant, for lovers of the english, its language, philosophy and allegory, and tales of imagination. <br/><br/><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/345866?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">View all my reviews.</a>