Posted by conskeptical
Mar 16, 2010 6:26 pm

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• I looked-up an overview of the book and this book serves as a vehicle for social, religious, and philosophical commentary. Which means I'm phoning my Brit friend for help :) and/or doing research. I'm impressed so far, but I may need a drink.

  Mar 17, 2010 9:33 am
  by dreamdust

• I'm British too :) As are a couple of the others on this read along. I think this is just the introduction blurb, not sure what the rest of the book will be like...
  The social, religious and philosophical commentary is pretty much what I'm looking forward to!

  Mar 18, 2010 2:04 pm
  by conskeptical

• I did not realise that this book had been added to the site. I had all sorts of trouble trying to find a copy years ago.
  
  Do not be put off by the dedication poem. The rest of the book is prose and much easier to understand and I do not remember any obscure references.
  
  I think the book can best be summed up by the Kingsley Amis quote I have on the back of my copy:
  
  "The Man Who Was Thursday is not quite a political bad dream, nor a metaphysical thriller, nor a cosmic joke in the form of a spy novel, but it has something of all three"
  
  I hope you all enjoy it.

  Mar 19, 2010 10:19 am
  by cresswga

• thanks cresswga! Now I've read the second installment, it does seem to have got much easier to read. But still a little bit peculiar, although the hope of that is what caused me to chose it...

  Mar 20, 2010 5:09 pm
  by conskeptical

• I enjoyed the Kingsley Amis quote, thanks. It is a fun book so far.

  Mar 21, 2010 6:31 am
  by dreamdust

• dreamdust, you are RIGHT. That is an awesome quote cresswga. blogged.

  Mar 22, 2010 5:09 pm
  by conskeptical

• After the stodgy dedication, and what struck me as some rather laboured prose in the second installment, the third installment today seemed like quite a breath of fresh air. :)
  
  Entertaining, witty, and thought-provoking too. Good stuff.

  Mar 23, 2010 1:28 pm
  by Inarticule

• I have to say this is the perfect spring fling read, which I hadn't expected. Exciting, zany and I can't quit clicking!

  Mar 26, 2010 4:55 am
  by dreamdust

• Mansoul is a reference to a John Bunyan novel. I think this is all setting up the story as a profound 'battle' between different ideologies which Mansoul also portrays. (Am commenting after having read 12/71).
  
  Dreamdust is right: very exciting after a bit of a confusing start!

  Mar 26, 2010 4:54 pm
  by DonnyTheBull

• Hmm, so everybody else went haring ahead? Tut, tut! I'm plodding stolidly onward with the schedule - installment 7 today. I'm very much liking the Alice in Wonderland vibe that has popped up.

  Apr 6, 2010 7:11 am
  by Inarticule

• i'm still reading along with the schedule :) It is tempting to go on faster though! But whenever I get that feeling I think... well, I still have all that other stuff that I want to read, I'll just read some of that instead. It's turning into a great read, a lot less heavy than I thought and seemed like it might be at first. I guess it gets heavier at some point, but perhaps more in a delicious way than a 'dry bread heavy' sort of way...

  Apr 6, 2010 2:35 pm
  by conskeptical

• I finished and I'm casting the movie on ? 67 of the week-leading roles. Great fun, but don't look if you haven't finished-spoiler alert. I keep thinking Conan O'Brian needs a job and he has red hair, maybe Gregory...does anyone know if this already has been made into a movie?

  Apr 9, 2010 9:06 am
  by dreamdust

• The boys' enthusiasm might have died if it were not helped by certain people, esp. authors, who gave them hope that their original view of the world wasn't wrong. Robert Louis Stevenson's stories of adventure and common truth (truth out of Tusitala) and Walt Whitman's beauty (fish-shaped Paumanok), not to mention John Bunyan's Christianity withered Oscar Wilde's cynicism (Green Carnation) and James Whistler's cold, vain wit (Lust that had lost its laughter, Fear that had lost its shame).

  Sep 17, 2010 9:57 pm
  by fellon

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  Sep 20, 2010 3:52 am
  by newscctv

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