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PostPosted: October 19th, 2006, 6:17 pm 


Only Narnia :( But those are the only books I've been reading for the past 2 years....cuz..I love them so!


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Hey! I just finished That Hideous Strength last night. It was okay, a little weird, but I guess I liked it.

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^ i'd say "a little weird" was an understatement! lewis can't have been in his right mind when he wrote that hideous strength - maybe he'd just painted his house and the paint fumes were getting to him or something...

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Yeah, it ws weird. But I liked Mr. Bultitude and McPhee.

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what do you reckon tolkien made of the fact that ransom was based on him? i don't think he'd have been particularly over the moon about it.

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I don't know, I guess he'd wouldn't have been that happy, but Ransom isn't that bad of a character.

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I started reading Screwtape Letters and Mere Christianity, but they both lost me, because it was hard to understand. Narnia, however is still my fav. book series, mainly because it's so easy to read and understand. :-D

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elvishjedipirate wrote:
Hey! I just finished That Hideous Strength last night. It was okay, a little weird, but I guess I liked it.


In what way did you find it weird? I actually really liked That Hideous Strength - it didn't make as much sense as Out of the Silent Planet, but I found it really interesting, and made more sense a second time 'round...

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I just thought it was kind of weird because it didn't take place on another planet, and there was stuff like Merlin, Alcasan, and all that. But I did like it a lot.

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Hooray!
I finally got The Screwtape Letters. I have some other reading that I have to do before I can read it, but I'm excited to start it. Has anyone here read it who would like to give me a review? No spoilers though. :P


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Has anyone here read a book called The Screwtape Letters By CS Lewis? And if so is it good?

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Yeah, I've read CoN seven or eight times...

The Screwtape Letters is an excellent book and one of his easier ones I think. His Space Trilogy is good as well. Mere Christianity is a classic. I've also read The Four Loves and The Abolition of Man. I have all the rest of his essays on my shelf, but I haven't finished them all yet...CS Lewis is one of my favorite authors!!

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Oh yes the Scerwtape letters, i have read a few letters in that book. It was very intresting and mind bogoling. I am in hopes of reading ' Mere Christainity' and other works of C.S.

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Thank you lots, Im might ask for that for Christmas!

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I got The Screwtape Letters for my birthday (in November) and I finally got around to reading it. I just finished it today actually. I liked it. I thought it was a very clever and interesting way to present his views about religion and people's souls in general during that period. Much more interesting to read than say, and essay about the same subject or something. The whole thing just really dripped with wit and sarcasm. I liked it. Not nearly as good as the Chronicles, but I didn't expect it to be.


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OOoo I only read the chronicals of narnia, and i love the series! id like to read his other books if i can get a hold of them

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