(3/5) Maybe when I get to heaven, GK Chesterton can give me some pointers on how to write a book that manages to perfectly space the good tidbits so as to not make you give up on the book completely while filling the rest with mediocre writing that makes you want to just put it down and pick it up later (which I did... many times). Perhaps it's the early 1900s language that just makes it hard to digest. I really thought there were great nuggets in this book that made it, as a whole, worth reading. It's not often that a book written that long ago will contain material that's still quite relevant today and that has come up in conversation since I started reading it.

An aside: Chesterton is very opinionated and doesn't shy away from telling you what he thinks, especially about the folks with whom he disagrees, including this quote which made me chuckle: "Mr. Blatchford is not only an early Christian, he is the only early Christian who ought really to have been eaten by lions."