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I've been reading The Everlasting Man by G.K. Chesterton. Unlike his fiction, this is (to me anyway) a bit difficult to plod through, and, despite the fact that it is the book that supposedly helped push a young C.S. Lewis to Christianity, it doesn't in my opinion showcase Chesterton's otherwise impressive intellect to its best advantage. Of course, that could well be my own bias showing (your mileage may vary), but he seems to me to set up not a few straw men in his effort to defend his beliefs, and his criticisms of the science of the day seem more a criticism of the science popularizes of his day such as H.G. Wells than valid criticisms of the science itself. I'm about 1/3 through at this point, and all things being equal, plan to persevere to the end, but I will be rewarding myself with another Perry Mason novel after this one's done.
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