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Title: That Hideous Strength: Library Edition by C. S. Lewis, Geoffrey Howard ISBN: 0-7861-9778-1 Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks Pub. Date: February, 2001 Format: Audio CD Volumes: 11 List Price(USD): $122.25 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.28 (43 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A different flavor...
Comment: Typically Lewis in linguistic style and philosophical content. This is an excellent book to read in tandem to Lewis' "Abolition of Man." I have yet to read the first two in the series (out of the silent planet and perelandra), but this book is easily read as a stand alone. I am particularly impressed with Lewis' ability to explore outside the Judeo-Christian mindset and embrace the possibilities in other great concepts, literary traditions etc. His unusual rendering of gods and goddesses with a "Christian" slant, Arthurian characters and magical happenings are innocent and rich with creative "mojo" that is sorely lacking in most popular "Christian" writing. I read this book simultaneously with "Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand and was startled and delighted to see some interesting parallels in thought.
Rating: 5
Summary: By far, the best of the three
Comment: This final book in Lewis' space trilogy is very different from its predecessors. It starts a lot more slowly, but builds to a higher crescendo. The characters are more nuanced, less like cardboard cutouts labeled "good" and "evil." Finally, more than the others, the ending is clear, timely, and very satisfying.
It's hard to describe this book, but try to picture Orwell's 1984 rewritten from a Christian view. The world had not reached Orwell's nightmare, but was headed decisively in that direction. The leaders of that putsch had all too familiar an appearance, and were ready to make every use of people uncertain of their own morality.
The end of the book, just a few pages following the end of the conflict, took me quite by surprise. (No, I won't give it away.) In retrospect, though, it makes a lot of sense. Lewis was acutely aware of mankind's combined nature, physical and spiritual, with no need for distinction to be made. In other writings (if I remember correctly), Lewis stated the importance of physically kneeling to pray because of how the physical act of kneeling affected the mind made from that physical body. I am quite sure that the ending was written to be as devout as Lewis could possibly make it, and it is a very beautiful vision of sacred duty.
This book is immensely more mature a work than the two that preceded it. The others create context for this one, but this stands very well by itself. If you have patience with its slow start, you may be happily surpised.
Rating: 5
Summary: Ranks with the best of good versus evil fiction
Comment: As author of Project 314, I have a deep appreciation for the way that Lewis pits good vs. evil. In his space trilogy, Lewis ranks with Stephen King (The Stand), and Tolkien's ring series in the way that he reaches deeply into his imagination to allegorize the moral dilemma of man. From a scientific standpoint he is ahead of his time. Imagine Lewis' amazement at the way we keep bodies alive today!
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Title: The Great Divorce by C. S. Lewis ISBN: 0060652950 Publisher: Harper SanFrancisco Pub. Date: 05 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: The Abolition of Man by C. S. Lewis ISBN: 0060652942 Publisher: Harper SanFrancisco Pub. Date: 20 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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Title: The Weight of Glory by C. S. Lewis ISBN: 0060653205 Publisher: Harper SanFrancisco Pub. Date: 20 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: Many Dimensions by Charles W. Williams ISBN: 080281221X Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. Pub. Date: December, 1965 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Descent into Hell by Charles W. Williams ISBN: 0802812201 Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. Pub. Date: December, 1965 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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