Any fans of C.S. Lewis here?

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I can’t prove this, but I’ve an idea Tolkien was frustrated with Jack for dragging his feet on converting to the RCC. Apparently they had had private conversations in which he had hinted at a desire to convert, and it must have driven Tolkien up the wall when Jack hesitated. Just an idea. Also, I know from my own life experience that no one has the potential to annoy and exasperate you more than your closest friends, and Tolkien and Lewis were nothing if not intimate friends.
 
CS Lewis was having difficulty finishing the narnia series, when he had a dream one night, that he died and his purgatory was to watch another author finish his series.

He awoke and zealously worked at finishing the series!
 
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Zach said:
I’m a fan of his non fiction but (running for cover) never got into his fiction. But then again (running for cover again) I’m not a fan of Tolkien either.
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Don’t feel bad. I was known for years for never going anywhere without a book in my hand, yet I never read any of this stuff. Tried to read Tolkien once, got about 5 pages in and quit. I preferred to read stuff like “Advise and Consent.”

I’m about the worst-read person ever when it comes to “Catholic” authors. Hilaire Belloc wrote some cool poems.
 
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I’m your typical obnoxious American, I used to think everyone spoke English, just as Adam and Eve. Actually I think it was Chesterton whose works are in public domain. I downloaded 50 books for $2.
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Ah! French are not so good in foreign languages!
Myself, I have enough level to read a CS Lewis in English (with a dictionnary) I think.

Chesterton is older, he died in 1936, so in the public domain, at least in France!

I Have read some Hercule Flambeau’s investigations with F Brown, but didn’t hang very much.
Is there a paternity with Hercule Poirot of Agatha Christie? The name is very close…

2 dollars is very very cheap! Buy a CS Lewis paper book will cost me 7 times more!
And it gain place on our home, too!

But we need to remember one thing: an ebook is not a real book!
  • We cannot expose on our family sheves. And a lot of people buy book to exposed them on their home, for social vanity, to admire them, and to set a good exemple for the rest of the family.
A CS Lewis’s book is good enough to enter in my personal collection!
  • More, we cannot transmited a e-book to our offspring in inheritance, like a normal book!
  • a book is a object that is pleasing in itself.
But of course, it takes time to read, money to buy and place to store.
And that is a little complicated for me!
 
C. S. Lewis said which books would he have in Heaven. He said the only books he expected to have would be those he gave away, in this life.
 
SeriousQuestion said:
Romantic subplots make me want to vomit.
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Join the club, my friend. Nothing worse than a sappy, sentimental romance. Nahum Tate ruined my beloved King Lear for seven generations of theatregoers by tacking on a ludicrous happy ending and inventing a romantic subplot between Edgar and Cordelia, who marry at the end in his version. Barbaric!
 
The Un-Man in Perelandra is perhaps the most frightening portrait of infernal evil since Milton, and gave me nightmares. I was a bit older than you when I first read the Space Trilogy, perhaps twenty-three or twenty-four, and it affected me enormously. The various villains in That Hideous Strength, Frost, Wither, Filostrato, Lord Feverstone and above all, Fairy Hardcastle, were also enough to give me sleepless nights for weeks.
 
He was making a joke, just a verbal comment, not a writing. The sense is don’t be stingy. Don’t hoard. He didn’t mean it literally, we won’t need books in heaven.
Of course if we go to the other place, we might want books about installing air conditioning.
 
Christian Saint Lewis will always stay with me, as I reread the Chronicles of Narnia.
 
I have not noticed this particular detraction of Lewis, and it’s a good thing too, because if anyone gave way to such sentiments within my hearing, I would have to ask them to step outside and repeat those words.
 
Ah yes, Mr Pullman, who garnered a great deal of publicity for himself in the popular press by denigrating the Narnia books. If such potshots at Lewis’ writing are found mostly in academic journals, then it’s no wonder I haven’t encountered them. I’ve had a marked aversion toward academia ever since college, and I keep my distance from its press and publications. The height of fashion today is cold, dull leftovers tomorrow. I’ll try my best to keep my gaze focused on the eternal, and not allow myself to be distracted by the ephemeral.
 
When I was young, I read C.S. Lewis. Some of the scraps from his books I learned by heart. Particularly impressive are some chapters of “The Miracle”, "Mere Christianity"😊
 
I feel the same way…I completely understand. I think if I said this to someone I know in real life they’d probably think I was bonkers. Glad to find someone who feels the same way! 😊
 
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I feel the same way…I completely understand. I think if I said this to someone I know in real life they’d probably think I was bonkers. Glad to find someone who feels the same way! 😊
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I make three, though I am the reverse of Jharek Carnelian: with me it is Lewis who seems to be a large part of me.
 
I love them both…but yes, to clarify, I would have to agree with you. Lewis especially speaks to my soul. Narnia, Aslan, and Lewis himself are a part of me and the way I look at things, and always will be.

I love Tolkien’s writing so much, don’t get me wrong, but he obviously doesn’t have all the apologetics writings, and while I love the world of Tolkien, Narnia has such obvious parallels with Christianity that it makes it much easier for my soul to be fed spiritually.

As a child, it was easier to be a part of Narnia’s stories as well, and as an adult, I gain so much from his apologetics writings and stories, like The Great Divorce, which I just can’t rate highly enough.
 
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I gain so much from his apologetics writings and stories, like The Great Divorce, which I just can’t rate highly enough.
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I agree. So many Lewis fans rave about Screwtape, but seem never to have read TGD. For me, one of the strongest of its attractions is the many vignettes of lost souls meeting with saved souls. Lewis had such insight into human foibles: the wife who wants to control her husband, the mother who makes her love of her son a weapon to use on others, the clergyman who masks his lost faith with pseudo-intellectual blasphemies, the big bluffer who only wants ‘my rights’, the husband who emotionally blackmails the wife…so many are familiar and recognisable.
 
Yes, and I really love the description of Heaven and Hell and what they are like. He describes Heaven in TGD just like he does in The Last Battle…going on and on and further up the mountains. It is only Heaven which is truly Real…everything else is just a shadow of Heaven. I think I posted a quote from TGD a few posts ago that describes it.

Here’s another:
If we insist on keeping Hell (or even earth) we shall not see Heaven: if we accept Heaven we shall not be able to retain even the smallest and most intimate souvenirs of Hell. TGD from the preface
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If I had to list another author that has truly touched my soul in the same way, it would have to be Hannah Hurnard and her books, especially Hind’s Feet on High Places and the Mountains of Spices. I reread these constantly also. Much-Afraid’s journey up into the mountains, like Christian in Pilgrim Progress, affects me deeply. I now see Jesus’ love shining through books like the Song of Solomon and Isaiah through her. Maybe I should start a thread about Hind’s Feet…🤔
 
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I have long thought that TGD would make an excellent film. I wonder if D Gresham has approached any producers about it?
 
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