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A review by allisonjpmiller
The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare by G.K. Chesterton
4.0
My first of Chesterton's fiction, and it will not be the last. (Already have Manalive lined up next.) Not what I expected - I guess I anticipated that his fiction would be heavy on the philosophy and lighter on the traditional elements of a novel: dialogue, character, description, etc. But I was wrong! Shouldn't I know better than to underestimate Chesterton by now?
Effortless passages, read closely, almost startled me with their visual clarity and vibrancy. The characters are defined by their quirks as much as their worldviews, and the dialogue! For being almost a hundred years old it is whip-smart, funny, and incredibly relevant.
As usual, Chesterton cuts to the quick of who we are, and where we've gone wrong.
Effortless passages, read closely, almost startled me with their visual clarity and vibrancy. The characters are defined by their quirks as much as their worldviews, and the dialogue! For being almost a hundred years old it is whip-smart, funny, and incredibly relevant.
As usual, Chesterton cuts to the quick of who we are, and where we've gone wrong.