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... things that make him endearing, and that passage you quoted is brilliant. It's not a mystery, but I recommend Chesterton's The Napoleon of Notting Hill if you haven't read anything else of his yet. The beautiful, incisive style is all there — powerful, haunting in places and funny in others. C ... ... Ninni Holmqvist STARTED ***** STARTED 1/30/10, FINISHED 2/2/10
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Bonus book: The Napoleon of Notting Hill by G.K. Chesterton ... fan, he is referenced all through The Sandman works. I have read The Man Who was Thursday and liked it a lot. Also read The Napoleon of Notting Hill, which was not so easy for me to understand. I love Orthodoxy. If you haven't read the Father Brown mysteries, they are quite fun. I recently finished The Napoleon of Notting Hill. Wisewoman, I agree with you that it's an excellent book. Kind of like a Lord of the Flies lite--full of tribalism and violence.
I also read Chesterton's play Magic (http://bit.ly/9BWm6) about a magic trick that might involve real magic and ... ... I seem to be in the minority, The Man Who Was Thursday is my favorite although I enjoyed the Father Brown Mysteries and The Napoleon of Notting Hill, Four Faultless Felons is still on my TBR list.
agmlll thanks for the link to the Gaiman blog. I am interested in what he thinks of Chester ... The Napoleon of Notting Hill was absolutely fantastic. My review, with some quotes, is here: http://www.librarything.com/review/28220113
I liked The Man Who Was Thursday, but enjoyed Napoleon more. I have some more of his books (The Man Who Knew Too Much, The Flying Inn, Four Faultless F ... ... The Walking Dead looks like something my friend would *love*; I'm going to have to remember to tell her about it.
And The Napoleon of Notting Hill is going on my to-read list! Thank you for the great reviews! ... in with everyday dramas), the dialogue seems natural and the art is amazing in its black & white starkness.
9. The Napoleon of Notting Hill by G K Chesterton.
(4 out of 5)
This is his 1st Novel, written in 1904 and I heartily enjoyed it.
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9. The Napoleon of Notting Hill G K Chesterton
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... Yes, The Napoleon of Notting Hill is as weird as The Man who was Thursday, but not in quite the same way. It's not so surreal. ... that classic British novel of distant futurity, set in the dystopic year 1984. I refer, of course, to G.K. Chesterton's The Napoleon of Notting Hill (1904)... ... I even found Down and Out in Paris and London fascinating, although less my cup of tea...
63) G. K. Chesterton - The Napoleon of Notting Hill: London in the future (for GKC anyway), where no one cares about anything very much and everything has become average (something actually, I ... ... I even found Down and Out in Paris and London fascinating, although less my cup of tea...
63) G. K. Chesterton - The Napoleon of Notting Hill: London in the future (for GKC anyway), where no one cares about anything very much and everything has become average (something actually, I ... ... - it was a Bookmooch thing, but it's not something that would normally leap out at me. Back on Bookmooch it goes!
63)Napoleon of Notting Hill and 64) Brideshead Revisited still ongoing (I'm reading Brideshead at work, so it'll be slow progress, but I'd forgotten just how readable Evely ... ... initially, it took me a while to follow as it was a lunch time book.
Currently ongoing:
63) G. K. Chesterton - The Napoleon of Notting Hill: am on a bit of a G K Chesterton kick at the moment - I have a couple more lined up.
64) Evelyn Waugh - Brideshead Revisited - I went ... Catching up on my understanding of late 20th century medieval warfare in The Napoleon of Notting Hill.
Also filling in the blanks on the Hapsburg army of the Napoleonic Wars in Napoleon's Great Adversaries: Archduke Charles and the Austrian Army, 1792-1814, a period during which, a friend of ... ... - Joseph Conrad
The Man in the High Castle - Dick
The Napoleon of Notting Hill - Chesterton ... style. And The Man Who Created Narnia, by Michael Coren, a short simple biography with lots of photos. Finally, The Napoleon of Notting Hill by G. K. Chesterton. A quite strange tale, but readable and ponderable.
Today I begin The Edwardian Lady, the Story of Edith Holden, by I ... ... must break this strange indifference, this strange dreamy egoism, this strange loneliness of millions in a crowd."
The Napoleon of Notting Hill by G.K. Chesterton ... and maybe for the rest of my life. Enjoying it though. I can only handle all his rabbit trails if I take it slowly.
Also The Napoleon of Notting Hill by G.K. Chesterton not sure I'm getting all there is to get, but I'm enjoying it non-the-less.
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