Adult Fiction and Non-Fiction of C.S. Lewis - Page 2

inked · 12-16-2005, 04:03 PM

Poetry, too.

Dymer

Spirits in Bondage

Collected Poems

hectorberlioz · 01-03-2006, 06:49 PM

I bought "Till We Have Faces". Still reading Miracles...I ahvent been reading much.

hectorberlioz · 01-03-2006, 06:51 PM

I bought "Till We Have Faces". Still reading Miracles...I havent been reading much.

hectorberlioz · 01-25-2006, 07:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hectorberlioz

I bought "Till We Have Faces". Still reading Miracles...I havent been reading much.

Quote:

Originally Posted by hectorberlioz

I bought "Till We Have Faces". Still reading Miracles...I ahvent been reading much.

whoa, that was Two different occasions...

Well, I have finished Miracles, and also The Pilgrim's Regress. Both excellent.

inked · 01-26-2006, 08:21 PM

My Dad, may he rest in peace, taught me bit of doggerol when he was my Sunday School teacher when I was about 9 years old. It goes...

You are writing a book
A chapter each day
By the deeds that you do
And the words that you say.
Men read what you write
Whether faithful or true,
Say, what is the Gospel
According to you?

I remembered that when I chanced on this article:

http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/1/242006b.asp

Perhaps the best book CS Lewis wrote was the one my Dad said we are writing?

***Rían*** · 01-26-2006, 10:22 PM

good verse, inked!

Reminds me of a Chris Rice song -

"Every day is a journal page
every man holds a quill and ink
there's plenty of room for writing in
all you say and do and think

So will you compose a curse
or will today bring a blessing?
Fill the page with rhyme and verse
or some random sketching?

Teach us to count the days
teach us to make the days count
Lead us in better ways
sometimes our souls forget
life means so much, life means so much,
life means so much.

Every day is a bank account
time is our currency
There's no one rich; no one poor
we have 24 hours each

So how are you gonna spend?
will you invest or squander?
Try to get ahead
or help someone who's under?

etc.

inked · 02-06-2006, 12:39 PM

A review of the review for those interested...

(teaser)
The Lion, The Witch and The New York Review of Books
February 1st, 2006
Alison Lurie is a novelist who teaches at Cornell and has published on the subject of children’s books. In the latest New York Review of Books, she has ostensibly written a review of Alan Jacob’s The Narnian; a collection of essays entitled Revisting Narnia: Fantasy, Myth and Religion in C. S. Lewis’ Chronicles; and the recent movie version of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. I say “ostensbly” because, while she does consider the items just listed, she also shares her own thoughts about Lewis and his Narnia series.

read it all at: http://rathernot.classicalanglican.net/

hectorberlioz · 02-06-2006, 07:18 PM

I just bought and am reading "The Weight of Glory". And also "Till We Have Faces".

Here's something funny: "C.S.Lewis & Narnia for Dummies" was written by a guy named Richard Wagner. As an admirer of Wagner Operas, I'm sure Lewis would have loved that coincidence.

littleadanel · 02-17-2006, 04:32 AM

'Till We Have Faces is great

Just finished reading it yesterday. I think I'll be a frequent customer in my university's bookstore, as long as they sell such books. I never even saw any Lewis books elsewhere (apart from re-published Narnia, but I bet it's only because of the movie...

).

**crickhollow** · 02-18-2006, 07:05 PM

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Originally Posted by hectorberlioz

I just bought and am reading "The Weight of Glory". And also "Till We Have Faces".

"The Weight of Glory" changed my life. and that's not an exaggeration. goes right along with this quote from Thomas Merton:

Quote:

I have the immense joy of being human, a member of the race in which God himself became incarnate. As if the sorrows and stupidities of the human condition could overwhelm me now that I realize what we all are. If only everybody could realize this! But it cannot be explained. There is no way of telling people that they are all walking around shining like the sun.

hectorberlioz · 02-19-2006, 03:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by littleadanel

'Till We Have Faces is great

Just finished reading it yesterday. I think I'll be a frequent customer in my university's bookstore, as long as they sell such books. I never even saw any Lewis books elsewhere (apart from re-published Narnia, but I bet it's only because of the movie...

).

It was very excellent! Me, my sis, and my younger borther all read it in the space of a week

...

And Crick, I also finished reading WoG

, I thought the essay "Is theology poetry?" was the best.

tolkienfan · 03-16-2006, 11:57 PM

I just borrowed The Screwtape Letters and The Four Loves. I read the introduction to The Four Loves, it sounds really good!

hectorberlioz · 03-21-2006, 06:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tolkienfan

I just borrowed The Screwtape Letters and The Four Loves. I read the introduction to The Four Loves, it sounds really good!

The Four Loves is definitely among Lewis' best (I always say that about everything of his, but in this case it IS TRUE...as it is for everything else of his...

)

tolkienfan · 03-22-2006, 12:33 AM

I finished The Four Loves. It was really good. I was a little confused about the chapter on friendship. I don't think I really agreed with it. But the rest of the book was great. Maybe I should reread the friendship chapter...

hectorberlioz · 03-22-2006, 03:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tolkienfan

I finished The Four Loves. It was really good. I was a little confused about the chapter on friendship. I don't think I really agreed with it. But the rest of the book was great. Maybe I should reread the friendship chapter...

That chapter didnt confuse me, but one in "Miracles" did. It was the last one, about "Extraordinary things that can happen scientifically" or something like that.

tolkienfan · 03-29-2006, 05:43 PM

I finished Screwtape Letters a few days ago. It was really interesting. Kind of messes with your mind. Very good.
I got The Inspirational Writings and Collected Works of C.S. Lewis for my birthday!

hectorberlioz · 03-29-2006, 05:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tolkienfan

I finished Screwtape Letters a few days ago. It was really interesting. Kind of messes with your mind. Very good.
I got The Inspirational Writings and Collected Works of C.S. Lewis for my birthday!

wow!

I wish I could have C.S. Lewis, Letters Vol.II for my birthday...
it's interesting to look up famous people in the index. He wrote letters to Arthur C Clarke, and he was a devoted Wagnerian, and he attended some of Sir Thomas Beecham's concerts.

tolkienfan · 03-29-2006, 09:16 PM

He dedicated The Screwtape Letters to J.R.R. Tolkien!

Curubethion · 03-30-2006, 12:45 AM

I'm reading through Mere Christianity right now. I like it-it's a lot more readable than some of his other classics. Although nothing so far has beaten Screwtape. (where did he get that brilliant name, anyway?)

BTW, did you know that Screwtape is playing off-Broadway as a musical?

GreyMouser · 04-15-2006, 06:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tolkienfan

He dedicated The Screwtape Letters to J.R.R. Tolkien!

I wondered if Tolkien was happy about that, since he disapproved of the book?

12-16-2005, 04:03 PM	#21
inked Elf Lord Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: sikeston, MO, usa, earth, sol Posts: 3,114	Poetry, too. Dymer Spirits in Bondage Collected Poems __________________ Inked "Aslan is not a tame lion." CSL/LWW "The new school [acts] as if it required...courage to say a blasphemy. There is only one thing that requires real courage to say, and that is a truism." GK Chesterton "And there is always the danger of allowing people to suppose that our modern times are so wholly unlike any other times that the fundamental facts about man's nature have wholly changed with changing circumstances." Dorothy L. Sayers, 1 Sept. 1941

01-03-2006, 06:49 PM	#22
hectorberlioz Master of Orchestration President Emeritus of Entmoot 2004-2008 Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Lost in the Opera House Posts: 9,328	I bought "Till We Have Faces". Still reading Miracles...I ahvent been reading much. __________________ ACALEWIA- President of Entmoot hectorberlioz- Vice President of Entmoot Acaly und Hektor fur Presidants fur EntMut fur life! Join the discussion at Entmoot Election 2010. "Stupidissimo!"~Toscanini The Da CINDY Code The Epic Poem Of The Balrog of Entmoot: Here ~NEW! ~ Thinking of summer vacation? AboutNewJersey.com - NJ Travel & Tourism Guide

01-03-2006, 06:51 PM	#23
hectorberlioz Master of Orchestration President Emeritus of Entmoot 2004-2008 Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Lost in the Opera House Posts: 9,328	I bought "Till We Have Faces". Still reading Miracles...I havent been reading much. __________________ ACALEWIA- President of Entmoot hectorberlioz- Vice President of Entmoot Acaly und Hektor fur Presidants fur EntMut fur life! Join the discussion at Entmoot Election 2010. "Stupidissimo!"~Toscanini The Da CINDY Code The Epic Poem Of The Balrog of Entmoot: Here ~NEW! ~ Thinking of summer vacation? AboutNewJersey.com - NJ Travel & Tourism Guide

01-26-2006, 08:21 PM	#25
inked Elf Lord Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: sikeston, MO, usa, earth, sol Posts: 3,114	My Dad, may he rest in peace, taught me bit of doggerol when he was my Sunday School teacher when I was about 9 years old. It goes... You are writing a book A chapter each day By the deeds that you do And the words that you say. Men read what you write Whether faithful or true, Say, what is the Gospel According to you? I remembered that when I chanced on this article: http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/1/242006b.asp Perhaps the best book CS Lewis wrote was the one my Dad said we are writing? __________________ Inked "Aslan is not a tame lion." CSL/LWW "The new school [acts] as if it required...courage to say a blasphemy. There is only one thing that requires real courage to say, and that is a truism." GK Chesterton "And there is always the danger of allowing people to suppose that our modern times are so wholly unlike any other times that the fundamental facts about man's nature have wholly changed with changing circumstances." Dorothy L. Sayers, 1 Sept. 1941

01-26-2006, 10:22 PM	#26
*Rían* Half-Elven Princess of Rabbit Trails and Harp-Wielding Administrator (beware the Rubber Chicken of Doom!) Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Not where I want to be ... Posts: 15,254	good verse, inked! Reminds me of a Chris Rice song - "Every day is a journal page every man holds a quill and ink there's plenty of room for writing in all you say and do and think So will you compose a curse or will today bring a blessing? Fill the page with rhyme and verse or some random sketching? Teach us to count the days teach us to make the days count Lead us in better ways sometimes our souls forget life means so much, life means so much, life means so much. Every day is a bank account time is our currency There's no one rich; no one poor we have 24 hours each So how are you gonna spend? will you invest or squander? Try to get ahead or help someone who's under? etc. __________________ . I should be doing the laundry, but this is MUCH more fun! Ñá ë?* óú éä ïöü Öñ É Þ ð ß ® ç å ™ æ ♪ ?* "How lovely are Thy dwelling places, O Lord of hosts! ... For a day in Thy courts is better than a thousand outside." (from Psalm 84) * * * God rocks! Entmoot : Veni, vidi, velcro - I came, I saw, I got hooked! Ego numquam pronunciare mendacium, sed ego sum homo indomitus! Run the earth and watch the sky ... Auta i lómë! Aurë entuluva!

02-06-2006, 12:39 PM	#27
inked Elf Lord Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: sikeston, MO, usa, earth, sol Posts: 3,114	A review of the review for those interested... (teaser) The Lion, The Witch and The New York Review of Books February 1st, 2006 Alison Lurie is a novelist who teaches at Cornell and has published on the subject of children’s books. In the latest New York Review of Books, she has ostensibly written a review of Alan Jacob’s The Narnian; a collection of essays entitled Revisting Narnia: Fantasy, Myth and Religion in C. S. Lewis’ Chronicles; and the recent movie version of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. I say “ostensbly” because, while she does consider the items just listed, she also shares her own thoughts about Lewis and his Narnia series. read it all at: http://rathernot.classicalanglican.net/ __________________ Inked "Aslan is not a tame lion." CSL/LWW "The new school [acts] as if it required...courage to say a blasphemy. There is only one thing that requires real courage to say, and that is a truism." GK Chesterton "And there is always the danger of allowing people to suppose that our modern times are so wholly unlike any other times that the fundamental facts about man's nature have wholly changed with changing circumstances." Dorothy L. Sayers, 1 Sept. 1941

02-06-2006, 07:18 PM	#28
hectorberlioz Master of Orchestration President Emeritus of Entmoot 2004-2008 Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Lost in the Opera House Posts: 9,328	I just bought and am reading "The Weight of Glory". And also "Till We Have Faces". Here's something funny: "C.S.Lewis & Narnia for Dummies" was written by a guy named Richard Wagner. As an admirer of Wagner Operas, I'm sure Lewis would have loved that coincidence. __________________ ACALEWIA- President of Entmoot hectorberlioz- Vice President of Entmoot Acaly und Hektor fur Presidants fur EntMut fur life! Join the discussion at Entmoot Election 2010. "Stupidissimo!"~Toscanini The Da CINDY Code The Epic Poem Of The Balrog of Entmoot: Here ~NEW! ~ Thinking of summer vacation? AboutNewJersey.com - NJ Travel & Tourism Guide

02-17-2006, 04:32 AM	#29
littleadanel of the House of Bëor Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Eastwards. Posts: 979	'Till We Have Faces is great Just finished reading it yesterday. I think I'll be a frequent customer in my university's bookstore, as long as they sell such books. I never even saw any Lewis books elsewhere (apart from re-published Narnia, but I bet it's only because of the movie... ). __________________ I'm good in bed - I can sleep for days

03-16-2006, 11:57 PM	#32
tolkienfan Elf Lord Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: The Internet Posts: 803	I just borrowed The Screwtape Letters and The Four Loves. I read the introduction to The Four Loves, it sounds really good! __________________ Don't be hasty! Thanks so much to Last Child of Ungoliant, Twista, and BeardofPants for my avatar!

03-22-2006, 12:33 AM	#34
tolkienfan Elf Lord Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: The Internet Posts: 803	I finished The Four Loves. It was really good. I was a little confused about the chapter on friendship. I don't think I really agreed with it. But the rest of the book was great. Maybe I should reread the friendship chapter... __________________ Don't be hasty! Thanks so much to Last Child of Ungoliant, Twista, and BeardofPants for my avatar!

03-29-2006, 05:43 PM	#36
tolkienfan Elf Lord Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: The Internet Posts: 803	I finished Screwtape Letters a few days ago. It was really interesting. Kind of messes with your mind. Very good. I got The Inspirational Writings and Collected Works of C.S. Lewis for my birthday! __________________ Don't be hasty! Thanks so much to Last Child of Ungoliant, Twista, and BeardofPants for my avatar!

03-29-2006, 09:16 PM	#38
tolkienfan Elf Lord Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: The Internet Posts: 803	He dedicated The Screwtape Letters to J.R.R. Tolkien! __________________ Don't be hasty! Thanks so much to Last Child of Ungoliant, Twista, and BeardofPants for my avatar!

03-30-2006, 12:45 AM	#39
Curubethion Fenway Ranger, Lord of Red Sox Nation Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: College! Posts: 1,976	I'm reading through Mere Christianity right now. I like it-it's a lot more readable than some of his other classics. Although nothing so far has beaten Screwtape. (where did he get that brilliant name, anyway?) BTW, did you know that Screwtape is playing off-Broadway as a musical? __________________ Adventure...betrayal...heroism... Atharon: where heroes are born. My wife once said to me—when I'd been writing for ten or fifteen years—that I could always go back to being a nuclear engineer. And I said to her, 'Harriet, would you let someone who quit his job to go write fantasy anywhere near your nuclear reactor? I wouldn't!' (Robert Jordan)