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Chesterton's Gateway
- 14 Essays to Get You Hooked on Chesterton
- By: Ethan Nicolle
- Narrated by: Ethan Nicolle
- Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 114
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 101
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Story5 out of 5 stars 101
Chesterton's Gateway was made for the person who has always loved Chesterton quotes, but has never been able to finish - or perhaps even start - a Chesterton book. This is because there really is no really good "first" Chesterton book. They are all hard the first time around. Chesterton was an essayist, and it is through his essays he is best discovered. Ethan Nicolle has put together this assortment of essays, a list he often gives to people who ask him where to start with Chesterton. Included are chapter introductions to help with context.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Gateway drug
- By Trevor Scott Andersen on 10-21-21
- Chesterton's Gateway
- 14 Essays to Get You Hooked on Chesterton
- By: Ethan Nicolle
- Narrated by: Ethan Nicolle
Footnotes are more distracting than helpful
Reviewed: 10-22-22
I love Chesterton, and I love these essays, but the momentum of the essays are completely lost in the sea of footnotes. And most of them aren't helpful or add little to the value of the story, even if you don't understand what the footnote is about. And far too many of the footnotes spend up to 25 seconds stating that they tried to look up this thing is, and couldn't find anything so they have no idea. So it's like, why is the footnote there to begin with? Overall, the footnotes consume too much time for how little value they add and ruin the reading. A shame, really. The rest of it was good.
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