I'm going to be stoned by my Christian friends, I just know it. I don't know why, but I just didn't like this as well as I liked Lewis' other works, like The Screwtape Letters, The Chronicles of Narnia or even Mere Christianity. The writing or literary device used reminded me of The Shack: Where Tra...
The Abolition of Man by C. S. Lewis (?)
The world was created in 6 days, and so was modern Israel. This paean to Jewish hardiness, perseverance, cunning and pragmatism is, at the blurb-level, about the shortest war during the Baby Boomer generation. But the heart and motivation of this book, by author Michael Oren, the sitting Israeli am...
Well, I am really glad that I listened to The Idiot on audiobook, because I am absolutely certain that I would not have gotten through this if I had read it! As it was, I had to read the last 50 pages or so, so I am not just speculating here. This book was dense, full of ideas, and philosophies, a...
Well-written, engrossing, and dryly amusing. While I tired of the vast amounts of nautical nomenclature, O'Brian did a good job of filling the reader in. This was generally accomplished by having Captain Jack Aubrey and others explain what was happening to physician Stephen Maturin. Maturin is the f...
This is not a review of the religious sentiments expressed in this early allegorical novel. The allegory itself was heavy-handed, perhaps because the art of fiction was still young. There is much in the way of deus ex machina, miracles and the like, while the plot is not much developed. It falls som...
JAMES BOND: "Oh, Solitaire, I really want to make love to you right now in this hot, cramped compartment on a moving train with someone right outside the door trying to kill me, but---I have this broken finger, you see, which makes sex absolutely out of the question, so I'll have to exploit you at a...
I read this back in 2006 as part of a book group discussion. All I remember about it was that it was long and that Dickens has a chapter in the book that sounds much like an editorial critical of the prison system of his day. I was reminded of the book because it showed up on my PageADay Book Lover'...
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