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3John4
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Posted: Mon Jul 30th, 2007 01:17 pm |
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For those of you who have read his work, I am interested in a few recommendations of your favorites.
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Dede
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JillD
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Posted: Mon Jul 30th, 2007 03:33 pm |
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My daughter was assigned "Manalive" and just finished it. It's public domain, so you could read it online. The characters are well-developed. She adores the main character. Entertaining and thought-provoking. Incredibly well written, vivid imagery, and makes you appreciate life in a whole new way.
The other daughter recommends "Everlasting Man."
He's not exactly light reading, no matter what you choose.
Oh, I read a book about Chesterton's works called "GK Chesterton: The Apostle of Common Sense" by Ahlquist. It summarizes a dozen or so of his books and is very readable. It would also give you a good idea of where to go next.
He's someone I wish I could have met in person...
Jill
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japhy
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Posted: Mon Jul 30th, 2007 03:52 pm |
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I've got Orthodoxy on my list of books to read; I just haven't gotten around to it yet. I don't have Everlasting Man but I've heard it's excellent.
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catholiceternal
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Posted: Sun Aug 5th, 2007 04:46 pm |
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I am reading a book called The Apostle of Common Sense. The author is Dave Alquist (spelling?) and it was written as a background for GK himself and overview of his life and it maybe a good place to start to understand where he was coming from when he wrote! It is just a thought, I was given it to read by a sister from the School Sisters of St. Francis and it has been very good so far. God Bless!
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brian
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Posted: Mon Aug 6th, 2007 03:48 am |
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Someone today made a reference to some work he wrote about St. Francis. It may have ben fictional, and may have been about pondering a statue reflecting upside down in the water and written from a backward perspective or something? I have no idea what they were talking about, but it seemd interesting if one wanted a less theological work to go along with his heavier writing. It may not even exist, in which case sorry for confusing you. He has been a huge influence on many converts.
brian
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UpinAK
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Posted: Tue Dec 18th, 2007 04:59 pm |
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In Michael Crichton's latest novel "Next", he recommends two of Chesterton's works along with a brief commentary on each in the bibliography of the novel. They are:
"What's Wrong With The World"
"Eugenics and Other Evils: An Arguement Against the Scientifically Organized Society."
I will be adding both to my reading list.
Here is a qoute from the bibliography entry of the first work by Mr. Crichton: "Chesterton lost the debate about the future direction of society to his contemporaries H.G. Wells, Bertrand Russell, and George Bernard Shaw. Chesterton saw the the implications of their vision of twentieth-century society, and he predicted exactly what would come of it. Chesterton is not a congenial stylist to the modern reader; his witticisms are formal, his references to contemporaries lost in time. But his essential points are chillingly clear." Quoted from page 539 of the bibliopgraphy of "Next", a novel, Harper, copywrite 2006.
With Grace For Us All,
Robert
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Dave Armstrong
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Posted: Tue Dec 18th, 2007 05:37 pm |
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Orthodoxy, Everlasting Man, The Thing [i.e., Catholicism, sarcastically], The Catholic Church and Conversion, The Well and the Shallows [also about Catholicism]. Anything the man writes is excellent
I've colected all of these books [online texts] on my GKC site, which is probably the largest collection of Chesterton links on the Internet:
G.K. Chesterton: The "Colossal Genius"
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