- His apologetics (Mere christianity, God in the dock) strike me as falling somewhere between disingenuous and dishonest.
- Surprised by Joy left me cold.
- Ditto his poetry.
- Narnia was plodding and uninteresting and long, long, long.
- His other works are only a faint memory; clearly they didn't make much of an impression, except for the Perelandra series, which was one of the few sci-fi works that I can say I enjoyed, though I suspect that if I revisited it now I would find it terribly heavy-handed and tedious.
All this notwithstanding, I just ordered A grief observed. (I probably read it before, but I have no clear recollection of it.)
Why bother going back to so disappointing an author? I suspect there might be more to him than I ever appreciated. That suspicion is raised by something Keillor said about the book this morning:
In the book, [Lewis] writes that he doesn't believe people are reunited with their loved ones in the next life. "Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll listen submissively. But don't come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don't understand."
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