I was surprised I didn't like this book more. The writing is elegant and evocative, but the story is excruciatingly slow in places. I'll probably get around to the other two books, but they have slipped all the way down to the base-camp of Mt. To-Read.
I first read this one as a teenager, and have been fascinated with the idea of not only life on other planets, but religion on other planets ever since. But then, why should the Earth be the only planet God ever revealed Himself to? If indeed there is life on other planets, wouldn't it make more sen...
I think this was my first SF book that I read and I remember that I liked it quite a lot, so the rating reflects my impression left from those years. I don't know how I would perceive it now...
[These notes were made in 1983:]. I was going to write that I thought that the imaginativeness of this story more than made up for its submerged didacticism. But that gives an utterly false impression, for in fact, I like (and inwardly approve of) Lewis' didacticism. And this book has in common wi...
Not C.S. Lewis's best or most popular book - for every person who reads this, there must be at least ten who read Narnia. However, the exchange between the humans and the Oyarsa (the angelic ruler of Malacandra/Mars) is extremely effective satire, and deserves to be better known. Ransom is the only ...
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