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  • The Man Who Was Thursday

  • Written by: G. K. Chesterton
  • Narrated by: Simon Vance
  • Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (8 ratings)

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This is quite possibly Chesterton's most famous novel. All that G. K. Chesterton's critics labeled him- devotional, impious, confounding, intelligent, humorous, bombastic - he wove into The Man Who Was Thursday. This page-turner sends characters bobbing around a delightfully confusing plot of mythic proportions.

The story begins when two poets meet. Gabriel Syme is a poet of law. Lucian Gregory is a poetic anarchist. As the poets protest their respective philosophies, they strike a challenge. In the ruckus that ensues, the Central European Council of Anarchists elects Syme to the post of Thursday, one of their seven chief council positions. Undercover. On the run, Syme meets with Sunday, the head of the council, a man so outrageously mysterious that his antics confound both the law-abiding and the anarchist.

Who is lawful? Who is immoral? Such questions are strangely in the presence of Sunday. He is wholly other. He is above the timeless questions of humanity and also somehow behind them.
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Strong writing, very captivating, lost me at end

Fully enthralled in the fiction philosophy of Chesterton I found this book very very enjoyable, though I must say I did not enjoy Chesterton's end as much as his journey the means may justify the ends on this one and the presentation left nothing wanting.

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It’s for geeks, but it’s stellar.

Certain parts just don’t hit the same without some biblical knowledge. But this story is every bit as eye-opening as Orthodoxy, yet every bit as compelling as a paper back crime novel.

You might want to listen to some other Chesterton before listening to this one. I think that was for the best in my case. But idk, I just loved it.

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