The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare in Around the World in 80 Books

Feb 13, 2014 Jessica rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: england, speculative-fiction, quirky, classic

Chesterton's classic is a bizarre little Mobius strip and a warped Alice In Wonderland starring adults. I don't know that I entirely understand it, or even understand it a little, but it's so nutty and wild that I almost feeling like getting it is kind of beside the point. It just kind of defies description, but would be a good fit for those who love plays with language and logic. ...more

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Aug 16, 2022 Patrick rated it liked it

I enjoy how G.K Chesterton writes as much or more than any author, but overall I didn't end up liking this read as much as the Father Brown stories. Perhaps this ended up a bit over my head. It was still good and worth the read for sure. ...more

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Dec 19, 2014 Anie rated it liked it

Shelves: 2014, fiction, ebooks, male-protagonist, male-author, project-gutenberg

G.K. Chesterton has a strangely dream-like quality to his writing: He's a man who simply assumes that our lives are not what they seem (and yet, are simply what they seem). He delights in paradoxes and witty turns of phrase, and The Man Who Was Thursday is definitely full of paradoxes and witty turns of phrase. It's a fun book; quick, relatively simple, the kind of book that makes you smile and occasionally laugh out loud. As a mystery, it's rather predictable, but it's nice to watch it play out ...more

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Jun 28, 2010 Deedee rated it liked it

Shelves: classics, world-europe-england, slipstream, rws-canon-bonus-points, challenge-2010-summer, espionage, world-europe-england-london

Look at the cover --- isn’t that cool? All of those men in bowler hats walking in unison and saluting a beat cop!! This book starts off interesting but just becomes ridiculous and then (even worse) philosophical.

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