The Catholic Book Club discussion

2. Is this your first book by G.K. Chesterton? If not, what else have you read and how does this compare. Do you plan to read more?

I have read in the last year: Orthodoxy, What's wrong with the world, and St. Francis of Assisi.

Years ago, I read The man who was Thursday and the Everlasting man, but I don't remember much.

I am currently reading: The essential Father Brown.

I've read lots of Chesterton: 3 biographies, 4 works about history and religion (Heretics, Orthodoxy, The everlasting man, and What's wrong with the world), and 15 novels or collections of short stories in several genres, plus 3 miscellaneous books.

Curiously enough, I'd never read the biography of St. Thomas Aquinas.

In my case is the same of a spanish general when the priest asked him that he forgave to his enemies he said that he could not forgive them, because he had killed all of them.
Some similar happened with the big G.K.C. one book, i have read a lot of them, not only Chesty is my favorite writer but also i have read at least 40 books. I would not know when i read Saint Thomas Aquinas, perhaps i read 3-4 years ago. I started with Father Brown, and his fictional novels, and after i read essay, even i read his two plays Judgement to Dr. Johnson, and Magic. Chesty it is not only my favorite writer is the human being that i love it. For example Chesterton inspired the fictional detective Gideon Fell created by John Dickson Carr.

I have read a couple - Orthodoxy and The Man Called Thursday. That was several years ago. When I bought St. Thomas Aquinas it came with St. Francis of Assisi, so I will add that to the nominations list and hopefully we will read that in the not too distant future.

John wrote: "I have read a couple - Orthodoxy and The Man Called Thursday..."

"The man who was Thursday" is my favorite Chesterton novel. "The ball & the cross," a kind of second part, is also quite good, although the first one is better, i.m.o. My favorite non-fiction by Chesterton is "The everlasting man," which you have just added to the nomination list. "Orthodoxy" is also very good.

Manuel wrote: "John wrote: "I have read a couple - Orthodoxy and The Man Called Thursday..."

"The man who was Thursday" is my favorite Chesterton novel. "The ball & the cross," a kind of second part, is also qui..."

It is very dificult, perhaps i doubt between Father Brown, and "Napoleon of Notting Hill", "The Flying Inn" (i think that it is a dystopia that it is being to our eyes for the rising of the Islam). In not fiction, perhaps "The Everlasting man" (i am historian, sorry), "Heretics" and "The well and the shallows", particularly i like the reasons that convert to the catholicism one of the reason was the Asturias Revolution in 1934, who was condemned by G.K. Chesterton, and the essay uchronia, where Chesterton especulates what would it have happened is John of Austria had married with Mary queen of the Scots.

Fonch wrote: ""Heterodoxians"..."

I think you mean "Heretics."

Manuel wrote: "Fonch wrote: ""Heterodoxians"..."

I think you mean "Heretics.""
You are right. I will check inmediatly. The memoir betray to me. PD. I also have checked "The everlasting man" i had suprimed the article the.