Tremendous Trifles G K Chesterton 9781511721615 Books
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An entertaining collection of essays, on various topics, by G.K. Chesterton.
Tremendous Trifles G K Chesterton 9781511721615 Books
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Tremendous Trifles G K Chesterton 9781511721615 Books Reviews
Haven't finished this book yet but what I have read so far is very good. Am learning a lot. Reads like a history text book.
Every time I read something from Chesterton I find another saner way to order my life. He is always funny, always paradoxical and best of all he has such great insights into life. I enjoyed these essays. The last one was the one I least enjoyed because I wasn't familiar with most of the men about whom he was talking.
Very nice essays, particularly considering when and where they were written. I don't get this kind of introspection and thoughtful commentary in The Washington Post today.
If you're a fan of great writing, you'll be a fan of this collection. Each story within the collection is short, maximum 4 pages, and they get right to the point. However, like any great story, they save the best for last and you will find yourself looking forward to reading the last paragraph within each story as it is truly the best and most invigorating. Chesterton's control of the English language is stunning and his direct matter of proving a thing is awe-inspiring. If you're a fan of his other works, you may like this one even more because it doesn't take as long to get the same great Chesterton-messages out of the reading. I give this book 5 stars because it really is wonderful when you don't have all day to read, yet still want to learn something or be motivated that the world is not all bad throughout the day. If you've got 15 spare minutes, thats enough to flip through one of these stories and feel better about yourself and the world.
GKC is one of my all-time favorite authors, and this collection lives up to his high standard. Amusing and thought-provoking.
This is a compilation of essays written for his newspaper column. I am always impressed by his poetic and detailed descriptions of the world around him. He covers a variety of subjects and always turns the observations about life into truths that I did not expect. Among my favorites A Piece of Chalk--where a drawing exercise turns into a lesson on the nature of truth, The Dragon's Grandmother--on why we should read fairy tales to our children, and Twelve Men--the best explanation I have read on why we have juries made of our peers and not professional jurors.
2009 marks the hundredth anniversary of this book from 1909, which is a collection of columns the author penned for a British newspaper, the Daily Mail. As such it's a mixed bag; some of the writing is, in my view a 3, and some a 5, thus my rating of a 4. Sometimes I don't know what he's talking about. Other times I find myself quoting a paragraph in an e-mail. This book contains my first encounter with Chesterton, a brief essay called "On Lying in Bed", which I still think one of his best. But when I began this book, although I avidly devour G.K.'s novels, and some of his nonfiction, like Orthodoxy, this one didn't hold me.
I returned to it now and then, as one does, after reading rather more gripping reads. Then its magic kicked in, and in my view, some of the later essays, particularly those that are travelogues, are the best. Other readers will have their favorites; some of mine are" The advantages of Having One Leg"; "The Twelve Men"; "The Wind and the Trees"; "In Topsy-Turvy Land"; "The Tower"; "The Orthodox Barber"; "Humanity An Interlude"; "The Little Birds Who Won't Sing"; "The Travellers in State"; "The Prehistoric Railway Station"; "A Glimpse of My Country"; and "The Ballade of a Strange Town".
That's my dozen keepers from these 39 essays, a rather good haul from a book a century old. The difficulty in this volume is that the references, as in most newspaper columns, are to current controversies, culture, and even jokes of the day. The reason this book celebrates a centennial when so many others of the era are forgotten, is because for Chesterton, those passing fancies, all the rage at the moment, are signposts to conditions common to humanity. That's why he remains so quotable. But neither did he write vaguely about universals; he observed and commented on particular people and places in his time. That's why he remains readable.
Few read the sort of column collected here in our day, and fewer now write it. What one notices on reading any Chesterton, however, on dipping into any book almost anywhere, is his delight in living, and looking, and reuminating. This is not a self-help book, but any reader who helps him or herself to it, may be helped regardless, to see more, and enjoy life more. Because his message at bottom is it's OK to enjoy life, to see it as a good gift, to be thankful and revel in it. This is not the frantic optimism of a prescriptive self-help book. To Chesterton, it's simple realism. As he writes in "The Ballade of a Strange Town"
"The false optimism, the modern happiness, tires us because it tells us we fit into this world. The true happiness is that we don't fit. We come from somewhere else. We have lost our way." A hundred years later these words still ring true. Which is why we're still reading him.
This review refers specifically to the" CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform" edition. This edition is large format but has very small type, which fills only a small portion of each page, and looks like a print on demand book. Look for an older edition. Any intact and serviceable book would be preferable.
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