It’s a little surreal to be touring Spain while reading a trippy and bizarre space allegory by C.S. Lewis, but that’s where a big portion of June found me. If this review is a bit incomprehensible, then you’ll know why. I’ve heard of the Space Trilogy but never read it until my library offered up all THREE books in one ebook. Naturally, I borrowed it. [Sidenote: I absolutely panicked about twelve days in Spain, so I had my librarian help me figure out Overdrive, Hoopla, […]
“Indeed the safest road to Hell is the gradual one–the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.”
The Screwtape Letters consists of 31 letters ‘found’ by C. S. Lewis that are from the demon Screwtape to his rookie nephew Wormwood. Wormwood has been tasked with the corruption of a human soul, referred to only as “The Patient.” God is referred to as “The Enemy” while the Devil is “Our Father Below.” The whole thing is a satirical and ironic. I first experienced The Screwtape Letters about 7 years ago as an off-Broadway play, and I loved it. It was funny, and […]
The Most Non-fictional Fiction
I thought I had read or knew about C.S. Lewis’s works, but The Great Divorce slipped my notice until one of my co workers mentioned it. I’ll be honest and admit that I’ve avoided Lewis’s non-fiction work. Granted, I typically don’t a lot of non-fiction to begin with, but I prefer Lewis’s fictional works. As luck would have it, The Great Divorce is a fictional piece although it reads like non-fiction. This combination makes it an interesting read, nothing like I’ve read before. There was […]