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Title: The Uncollected Father Brown Stories
Series: Father Brown #6
Author: G.K. Chesterton
Rating: 2.5 of 5 Stars
Genre: Mystery
Pages: 75
Words: 20K
| Synopsis: |
Table of Contents
The Donnington Affair
The Mask of Midas
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“….you are neither cold nor hot. Would that you were either cold or hot! 16 So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth.”
~ Revelation 3:15b-16
One week after finishing this collection of 2 stories I can’t remember a thing about them. The Father Brown stories had started to wear on me so I was looking forward to a much shorter experience, but I wasn’t expecting something so completely bland that I forgot it right after reading it.
There was nothing bad but there was nothing good, hence the Bible verse. Thank goodness the Father Brown stories are done!
Bookstooge's Reviews on the Road 
Hm. Two stories isn’t really a collection is it? And how can they be collected here if they’re uncollected? Shouldn’t they still be out there somewhere in the wild?
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Well Little Alex, let me explain how publishing works.
When a daddy publisher loves a mommy author, a little story is born. but sometimes the Daddy Publisher is a baaaaaaaad man and doesn’t love the little story that the Mommy Author gave him. So he throws it out into the streets. Most of little stories then die in squalid misery. But every once in a while, a nice philanthropist takes care of a Little Story and takes it home and brings it up like it is his own. Then, at just the right time, he brings the Little Story to the publics attention and it becomes a Great Success.
So there you go.
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What about the Creepy Uncle online publisher? Should the li’l orphan stories stay away from him?
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That depends. Because sometimes he is just the magical Fairy Godmother of Success in disguise.
Pretty complicated isn’t it?
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How are these stories Uncollected? Surely if they were uncollected, they wouldn’t be there at all?
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Booky is taking some time to collect his thoughts on this pressing matter.
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About 3hrs worth 😀
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You and Alex are two peas in a pod this morning, aren’t you? Go read my answer to him. Hopefully it will tastefully explain the delicate miracle of book life.
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Sometimes, being a completist does bring negative results…
I hope your next “adventure” proves more interesting! 🙂
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Now that I’m done with the Father Brown stories I can see what else Chesterton has written. I hope it is enjoyable.
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Tales of the Long Bow was pretty good, to my mind. If you’re into poetry, then The Ballad of the White Horse is a must.
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Sadly, poetry isn’t my jam. At all. That part of his writings I’ll probably end up skipping
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Welp…
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Hmm. I only ever read one book by G.K. Chesterton: The Man Who Was Thursday. And I loved that book. But I have no idea what else he has written.
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Well, if you stick around, I’m going through his complete works 😀
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I’m looking forward to it
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How can these stories Oh wait, the WPO2 already been there. 😁
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Yeah, Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum have already done that routine 😉
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Back when I read a Father Brown collection, “bland” was the exact word I used for him. Between that and his annoyingly frequent potshots at Protestantism I never bothered to read any other collections (or uncollections).
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Yeah he REALLY takes potshots at Protestants. Reminds me of early SDA writings and catholics 😀
But now I’m done with the Father Brown section, so we’ll see what his other writings are like!
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That’s quite a positive rating for a collection of stories that were instantly forgettable hahaha
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Usually something has to be actually bad at something for me to give it a lower than 2 1/2 star rating. If this had been the FIRST Father Brown collection then I might have skipped all the rest. There’s a reason these weren’t collected before 😀
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