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My pleb coworker keeps recommending that I read GK Chesterton. Has anyone here read him? and is he worth reading? I think he looks like Teddy Roosevelt's retarded brother.

>> No.14104387

>>14103735
Bump

>> No.14104671

>>14103735
>I have not read x
>tell me my opinion on x

these are the worst threads

>> No.14104989

>>14103735
Terribly dated, that's why no one reads him anymore.

>> No.14105064

>>14103735
Just read you dimwit.
>>14104671
Agree

>> No.14105509

>>14103735
ah my beloved chesterton *sniffs*

>> No.14105520

>>14103735

Read The Man Who Was Thursday, and some Father Brown stories. Don't bother with his nonfiction.

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14105524

>>14103735
tried reading him, >>14104989 is right.
however Father Brown series is comfy as fuck, literal comedy gold with a touch of dated good in characters. vaguely based on his writing.

>> No.14106383

cringey old christfag larper using it as a status symbol as non-proles are wont to do, obese piece of gluttonous shit sinning against the lord with his love of cakes and meats.

>> No.14106502

Read this essay by him.
https://www.chesterton.org/a-piece-of-chalk/

>> No.14106615

>>14103735
He's really good.
Kafka and Zizek really liked him. He is peak /bloomer/ lit.

>> No.14106627

>>14103735
He's great, I love his essays. "Heretics" especially.

>> No.14106652

Hes great but he references a ton of his contemporaries which can get tired quickly

>> No.14106681

>>14103735
>pleb
>recommends chesterton
checks out desu

>> No.14106702

>>14103735
Avoid Father Brown.

Napoleon of Notting Hill and The Man Who Was Thursday are decent. TMWWT kicked me in the balls when I finished it.

>> No.14106790

>>14103735
Just read The Man Who Was Thursday. It's barely 200 pages, and it's a page-turning detective story loaded with jokes.

>> No.14106855

>>14106615
Was Alan Watts favorite author too

>> No.14106911

>>14103735
Borges liked him so there's a 99% chance he's good..

>> No.14107819

>>14103735
Read The Man Who Was Thursday; it's a satirical thriller that's a lot of fun. If you're Catholic, also check out his nonfiction.

>> No.14108535

I honestly enjoy his non-fiction the most. I can see why some people can find Father Brown comfy, but it's just not my cup of tea; haven't read The Man Who Was Thursday.
As a christian I can appreciate him, but I just don't find in him that "something" that makes other writers like T. S. Elliot or Dostoevski so special for me.

>> No.14108724

The Man Who Was Thursday is great fun. I've only read a few Father Brown stories, but they seem like nice, cozy mysteries. I even liked his poem about Lepanto.

His essays in Heretics and Orthodoxy are interesting and have some good bits, but I find it hard to really appreciate apologetics.

>> No.14108736

>>14106702
Father Brown is the best detective in all of fiction.

>> No.14108832

>>14108736
How did the BBC manage to fuck it up so badly?

>> No.14108889
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14108889

He is one of those great geniuses who can talk about very complex things using very simple terms.

In addition to all the fiction and essays mentioned, his poetry is very good too. One of the particular geniuses of Chesterton is that he was very good at a fuckton of things. He was a journalist, essayist, critic, short story writer, novelist, poet, dramatist, philosopher, and theologian. He wears a lot of hats, and while some of his stuff in some fields is better than others, nothing he ever put out is truly bad.

>> No.14108899

>>14104671
>>14105064
not by a long shot they aren't

>> No.14108900

Everyone here is recommending his novels, which were just a hobby for him. Where he really shines is in his essays.

>> No.14108944

>>14108832
The have the anti-Midas touch.

>> No.14109493

>>14103735
He reminds me of Reader's Digest. He writes dishonest, moralizing essays that just apply feel-good platitudes and common (non)sense to root volatile propaganda of the catholic church into every debate and interest the English public might have had. He started out as a socialist agitator. He used Lewis Carroll kinds of rational nonsense to dismantle the concept of truth and neutralize Britain w/r/t religious opposition toward the catholic world order. He is being read by plebs today because religious opposition is trying to pull the same trick on Americans now that there's a vulnerable generation of born-again types ready to have public debate.

His fiction is entertaining because it has that eager and innocent victorian tone that makes you smile, but not worth reading unless you have a special interest in his stories.

>> No.14109504

>>14103735
Do you like to talk about Nietzsche at work or something? Chesteron is a good cure for Nietzsche.

>> No.14109545

>>14103735
Your coworker is probably entry-level tradcath right wing twitter podcast guy.

>> No.14109626

>>14109493
>Chesterton
>Feel good platitudes
You're retarded. Chesterton was one of the greatest minds of his day and his arguments are anything but platitudes, they're extremely well reasoned and supported essays about why atheist fedora tippers like yourself are the doom of society. So far you've done nothing but prove him more right.