I have a love/hate relationship with C.S. Lewis. There's a lot I admire in his writing but enough I deplore in his worldview that even though I keep being drawn to his works, I can't call him a favorite. I mostly loved The Screwtape Letters and Narnia, which I read as an adult, adored Till We Have F...
The reader who comes to "That Hideous Strength" for the first time after reading "Out of the Silent Planet" and "Perelandra" could be excused for wondering how it fits in with the rest of the Space Trilogy. It bears little resemblance to its companion volumes. There is no journey through space, no e...
I liked this book better than the other two in the Space Trilogy (there's no space in this one though), but still not enough to give it four stars. It takes place mostly on earth so the scifi elements don't seem as dated as in the other two books where outer space is involved. The beginning was re...
Before reading That Hideous Strength I never realized how badly Lewis wanted all the myths to be true, King Arthur and Merlin, the Greek gods, Atlantis, even Father Christmas. It makes you wonder if his outspoken defense of Christianity wasn't just an attempt to find a set of myths he could believe...
The reader who comes to “That Hideous Strength” for the first time after reading “Out of the Silent Planet” and “Perelandra” could be excused for wondering how it fits in with the rest of the Space Trilogy. It bears little resemblance to its companion volumes. There is no journey through space, no...
This is the best book I've read in years. The Space Trilogy, the only science-fiction series I've read that has a theistic (not naturalistic) worldview, is a masterpiece; and That Hideous Strength is arguably the best of the three books (possibly matched by Perelandra, the second). Unlike Perelendra...
CS Lewis, CS Lewis...oh boy!You spoiled a great chance for writing an amazing novel here.You showed amazing skills here, but then you decided to put them off, giving up what you began. You started something you couldn't finish. I don't know if the first two books of this "Space Trilogy" of yours ar...
After suffered through the first two boring book of the series, the last one is just as bad as the first two.I have written a review for the whole series, and this is what I have said about this one.Crap book, waste of paper, the experience could only be compared to going to the dentist, and you cou...
Lewis's concept of science fiction creates an interesting read. Although the writing isn't as engaging to me as his Narnia works, I loved the concept behind the books.
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