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I finally finished the book. But my earlier somewhat lukewarm opinion of it (Book & Reader Forums - View Single Post - March 2009:The Known World-Edward P. Jones) never improved, and steadily declined as I slogged through the last chapters. I found the death and immediate bliss scenes to be...

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I'm also about half-way in, but for me the jury is still out. I am put off by the myriad of details that (so far at least) seem to be tacked on without going anywhere. It sometimes seems like Jones is more interested in creating a fictional world than just telling a story. But when the...

l'm also troubled by his use of the phrase "religious underclass". That term in itself suggests he hasn't let go of his preconceptions. The term "underclass" is usually used as a synonym for those who are poor or disadvantaged. It can also be used for those who are cut off from mainstream...

IMO he totally failed to understand, let alone get into the mindset of, the "religious underclass". At best it was caricature.

It looks like someone is making a movie of The Man Who Was Thursday, due out next year: The Man Who Was Thursday (2010)

There are several hints early in the story that it is really a dream. Right after Gabriel left Rosamond and we are told that "the glory of her strange hair ran like a red thread through those dark and ill-drawn tapestries of the night", Chesterton adds: Again, at the end of the Chapter I...

We're not told much about Rosamond, but she carries with her an openness and simplicity that are lacking in the duplicitous Gabriel and Lucien. When Gabriel and Lucien were arguing about anarchism, she asks Gabriel "do the people who talk like you and my brother often mean what they say? Do...

Earlier, I made the following connection between the names of Gabriel and Lucien: Libra made the further connection that Another way to understand Rosamond is from the Latin phrase "rosa munda" or "pure rose". Chesterton makes much of Rosamond's red hair, in one case saying I was...

I suspect it has to do with the difference between creation and destruction. The Council of the Days represents the seven days of creation. Before the seven days of creation: "The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep." After each day of creation: "God...

I think I got it this time:

I'm still trying to get my bus on the screen:

Leesha Harvey has a wonderful song about The Man Who Was Thursday: StumbleAudio (2 million+ music tracks to discover) Here are the lyrics: "The Song for Thursday" (Leesha Harvey) The universe has bottomed out Look at that blood-red sky Just poets in a shadowed park You and I...

There is probably no Kafka. So take April off and enjoy the flowers.

One poster has commented about how Chesterton reminds him/her of C.S. Lewis. Lewis has compared the writings of Chesterton with Franz Kafka, our April BOTM author: Lewis finds that Chesterton is as serious as other writers about the issues he raises, but instead of being morose Chesterton...

The issue with Chesterton was not that the anarchists and nihilists wanted to abolish government. Rather, as Chesterton suggests in Chapter II, they aimed: In our day, some don't desire so much to abolish God as to ignore him. A group has been running ads on the bendy buses in England...

Despite Garfield and my earlier doubts, I did finish the book - and am glad I did. Some have complained that Chesterton does not take seriously the questions he raises. I think he does take them seriously, but chooses to tackle them in an unusual way. In Chapter XIV, he says: And that...

The Cat Who Was Thursday: Garfield | Comics | Seattle Times Newspaper

The 1938 radio production of The Man Who Was Thursday by Orson Welles is found beginning here: YouTube - "The Man Who Was Thursday" by The Mercury Theatre, 1 of 6. This was broadcast about six weeks before Welles' famous broadcast of The War of the Worlds.