Title: The Man Who
was Thursday
Author: G. K. Chesterton
Genre: Metaphysical Thriller
Read by: Gildard
Jackson
Publisher/Date: Dreamscape
Media/2016 (originally published 1908)
Dates listened to: 6/25/17
– 7/8/17
CDs/Hours: 5/6.25
ISBN: 978-1-5200-1516-3
This book, published in the year of my father’s birth, fit a
category for Summer Book Bingo.
Undercover officer Gabriel Syme is secretly involved with early 20th
century Scotland Yard’s task force that attempts to take down a group of
underground anarchists. Have you ever
run across situations where things are not really as they seem? Well, this is such a story – and very
confusing. The back cover suggests many
Christian allegories and themes of suffering.
I didn’t get that at all. We are
supposed to be on the edge of our seats.
Yet, again, although it was a page turner, I was good with “turning
pages” (changing discs)! Perhaps I need
to “read” it again. And in spite of it
all, I did like the ending. Maybe I
understood more of it than I realized.
By the way, Chesterton is the creator of the Father Brown
character and upon which is based the PBS series. I thing I’d rather be reading those stories.
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