J.T. Wilson’s Reviews > Father Brown (Complete Collection): 53 Murder Mysteries: The Scandal of Father Brown, The Donnington Affair & The Mask of Midas… > Status Update
J.T. Wilson
is 44% done
This anthology is formed of five books, of which I have completed the first two: presumably the longest two given the maths. ‘The God of the Gongs’ being unreadably racist has soured me a little on this collection, which is a shame as I was very much enjoying it; I will come back to the remaining three books at some point.
— Aug 17, 2019 02:17PM
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J.T. Wilson
is 82% done
Less than 200 pages to go. Possibly time to read something else for a bit, but the last book’s worth of stories were a pleasure after fish-out-of-water USA and South America voyages (presumably written for money). Still a bit more racism than I’d like, although at least it’s contained in the dialogue of unsavoury characters, and Brown is increasingly the voice of Chesterton in long speeches.
— Sep 11, 2019 02:12PM
J.T. Wilson
is 60% done
These stories are better when they’re faintly mystical and set in obscurely peculiar parts of Britain; the ones in the US and South America (settings perhaps chosen for commercial reasons) ring less true.
— Sep 02, 2019 11:10AM
J.T. Wilson
is 53% done
Picked this back up after breaking for Fitzgerald. Oddly the third book in the collection is atrociously edited in the Kindle edition, with misplaced headings and typos everywhere.
— Aug 29, 2019 12:19AM
