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Summary: Great Book
Review: I love this book even though the ending confused the heck out of me. C.s. Lewis did a great job of retelling this myth i had not heard of this myth befor until i got to the end of the book where the author tells you about the real tale and how he changed it he did a great deal the tale and he changed it for the good wich made the whole character change and gave her a different out look throughout the whole story in the real myth the main feelings of the character was jealousy twards her sister psyche and in the myth retold the feelings of jealousy arent twards her sister Psyche she feels anger twards her sister at times and she feels that her sister does not lover her anymore because she wont come home to her. This tale has many twists turns ups and downs like a roller coaster and if you miss something you might not get certain parts of the book. I still think I need to read it again. I hope this might of helped and I hope that you enjoy the book.
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Summary: amazing, brutal, challenging
Review: C.S. Lewis is so good at mixing faith with stories. Maybe that's why his stories are the most gripping. This retelling of Psyche and Eros is unpredictable and very moving. If Narnia is for children then "Faces" is a teaching fable for all adults.
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Summary: Unimaginative, overly symbolic tripe
Review: I read this book as an Honors English assignment earlier this year. At first, it seemed like a brief respite from the dense and monotonous novels we had read earlier. However, upon further reading, I found that this book was the worst one that I have read throughout the course. My primary complaint on this book is that the story of Cupid and Psyche was almost left out. Instead, the protagonist, the cliche, jealous ugly duckling that never becomes a beautiful swan, narrates her trials and tribulations against the gods that have plagued her. In fact, most of the Cupid and Psyche myth is removed until the end of the book, where it is told with no descriptive language or immagery. The rest of the book is the protagonist whining about her life with an overly symbolic, pretensous and confusing resolution and an absent climax. If you don't aprreciate literature and entertainment at all, this book is for you. But if you love to read entertaining and thought provoking works of literature, DO NOT READ THIS BOOK!!
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Summary: The Golden Rule
Review: Orual,the least beautiful of the princesses in the kingdom seems as if she uses the Golden Rule throughout the book. The Golden Rule states to treat people the way you want them to treat you. Orual treats everyone with love because she wants to be loved in return.
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Summary: An Absorbing & Thoughtful Story
Review: C.S. Lewis himself regarded Til We Have Faces at times to be his best book (Durez, 1990). The myth is exploding with symbolism and metaphors, wherein Lewis explores his own ponderings on love, religion, salvation, suffering, and reason. I have read the book twice and found tremendous substance in the overarching theme: A gulf transfixed between good and evil in Creation, a concept reviewed many times over on the popular Lewis site, Intro. to the Wardrobe (check it out!).
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Summary: A good book that falls short of greatness
Review: The book is brilliantly written as long as it concerns itself with Orual's passionate indictment of the gods. It loses its power, however, when Lewis falls prey to his tendency to preach. Part 2 undermines the rest of the book first by telling the reader what to think and then by couching the lessons in an implicitly Christian moral context. In this way, it is reminiscent of "The Last Battle," a coda which mars the otherwise enjoyable "Chronicles of Narnia."
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Summary: Grows on you.
Review: The first time I read this novel, maybe twenty years ago, I was a bit disappointed. From Lewis, I expected Christian fantasy or philosophy. Who was this pagan god of the mountain who came to love Psyche? What was going on in the confusing dream-like sequences towards the end? Where is God in all of this? Now I love it. I've pushed it on other people, and found most "got it" faster than I. Some of my best Japanese students have read it in my first-year English reading class, and those who have, liked it. (I recommmend it to them partly because of the brilliant way Lewis depicts ancient Greek and tribal cultures and thought.) Some appreciate the insight and sensitivity with which Lewis depicted his female leading character. (Thanks, maybe, to his love at the time of writing for a woman of a similarly realistic and strong temperament.) One noted that "This story will tell you how not just Orual but every mortal has an ugly soul." She told me that she'd been reading a bit about Greek philosophy, and the book was interesting for that reason, too. Another said she liked the single combat, admitting, "I know it isn't the most important scene, but I just like it." A relative, to whom I gave a copy of the book, told me she read the whole thing (it's not that short) in one sitting. So I think there's a good chance you'll like the book, too. As for God, while He is hidden in this story, (as He often is in life) that hiddenness is another layer within the depth within depths that is this novel. I now tend to think Lewis deserved a Nobel Prize for writing it. author, Jesus and the Religions of Man
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Summary: I didn't think it was that great.
Review: Maybe it was because I didn't know the story of Cupid and Psyche before I read the book- but I was not overly moved by this book. I especially did not enjoy Part II, when I just kept wondering, what the heck is going on??? Thank goodness that Lewis included the summary of the traditional myth at the end- it might be helpful to read this part first.
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Summary: How Did He Know?
Review: This book is an uncanny display of how Lewis writes from a female perspective--and succeeds most excellently (see all the ecstatic reviews?). Lewis was a master thinker, observer, writer, and story-teller. Till We Have Faces awes me, for Lewis artfully writes from a very Other perspective. He does this so very well in That Hideous Strength, as well (third in his sci-fi trilogy). Enjoyable! Wah-hoo!
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Summary: A Complement to Life.
Review: I have never read a book with such power to haunt, to inspire. Til We Have Faces held me spellbound the first time I read it, and it's power has done nothing but increase with each re-reading. There are thoughts expressed here, thoughts that perhaps each of us have known on the flickering edge of our consciousness, but have never known to put into words. This book is incredible in the way that it matches gritty realism with a soaring myth, and make the myth so much more powerful because it becomes real. Reading this powerful book will change you.
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