1. How did you respond to the book?

[John]

1. How did you respond to the book? Did you get into it right away? Did you warm up to it as you read? Or has it left you cold? What was it about the book that caused you to react that way?

[Sheila]

John et all, this is a scholarly work. Small print to boot. In addition to your questions, suggest a general question a la "Comments while reading the book" that folks can utilize during the month or months it takes to read Literary Converts.

[Manuel]

In fact, I read this book about one year ago. Its effect on me has been time-delayed, in the sense that many books by the authors Pearce mentions (some of which I had never read before) are now in my library. Since reading this book, I have bought/downloaded and read books and poems by Ronald Knox ("The viaduct murder" and "The three taps"), Robert Hugh Benson ("Lord of the world"), Maurice Baring ("Passing by"), T.S.Eliot ("The waste lands") and Alfred Noyes ("The sun cure" and "The last man"). Of course, I already knew and had read many books by C.K. Chesterton, C.S. Lewis or Graham Greene.

I think the best of this book is the interest it arises for so many authors, and the surprise at finding so many famous converts, some of which I never knew were Catholics (to mention one, the actor Alec Guinness).

[John]

Sheila wrote: "John et all, this is a scholarly work. Small print to boot. In addition to your questions, suggest a general question a la "Comments while reading the book" that folks can utilize during the month ..."

Done. I added that as question 0.

Also, I bought a Kindle edition, so don't suffer from small font.

[John]

I have finished. I really enjoyed this and thought Pearce did an interesting job in organizing his material. He certainly didn't shy away from including some more controversial choices, such as Graham Greene. It certainly has made me want to read a bunch of the books he referenced.