The Frog and Toad books are engagingly full of pathos, friendship, humor and some of the most straightforward, simple and profound sentences you'll find anywhere. I wish I was a book critic so I would know better how to say nice things about these books.
I'd read them even if I didn't have kids. I so totally wish I could write like him.
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There's a lot of writing by Chesterton. If I could only buy 5, which ones should they be?
Only 5? :)
Ah, where to begin? I suppose it depends on what you're looking for. You could easily go with five of his novels - I'd suggest Manalive, The Napoleon of Notting Hill, The Ball and the Cross, The Man Who Was Thursday and any collection of the Father Brown stories.
Then there's the theology - Orthodoxy is certainly at the top of that list, along with the bio's of St. Francis and St. Thomas Acquinas.I hear The Everlasting Man is good, but (gasp!) I haven't read it yet.
And if you're interested in the man himself, his autobiography was fascinating. And his book Eugenics and Other Evils was fantastic too.
That's the problem - all his books were outstanding.
For an overall intro to GKC, I'd suggest these five (in order): Orthodoxy, Manalive, St. Francis, Eugenics and Other Evils and his Autobiography.
But really, you can't go wrong...
Sweet. I looked for some of his stuff at the library today. They didn't have anything at the particular location I visited, but did at another branch across town. Sheesh! Distributed libraries are cool and they also aren't so cool.
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