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Summary: Hopeful, brilliant, gorgeous, and fun to read!
Review: A wonderful and FUN look at spirituality. Full of hope for those worried about the afterlife: perhaps, it's not all the little religious rules and regulations that matter, so much as one's true heart, the ability to admit mistakes and turn away from selfishness. A great lesson in Reality vs. the dream-world of self-absorbed vanity. Definitely a treasure to keep oneself from despair.
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Summary: Brilliance
Review: Lewis causes you to pause, consider, and forever change the things you put your heart into. If you read any of his books let it be this one. It will make you long for and search out an eternity with your Creator.
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Summary: In a class by itself
Review: In my opinion, this is one of the great spiritual classics. The imagery is brilliant and the message is compelling. For me, reading The Great Divorce was a life-altering experience. If I could take only five books to a desert island, this would be one of them.
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Summary: Lewis: master of image, expert on human nature
Review: This book gets my vote for most "bang" per page. Lewis vividly portrays human nature - good, evil, and rationalizations for the latter - in a form that is picturesque and penetrating. This book has so many facets but, typically for Lewis, deals with deep subjects in a light, easy-to-understand manner (though is background in classic litereture peeps through often). Questions such as:What is the nature of good and evil? What is the nature of God's grace? How is a person truly converted? What is love? And much, much more... All this in a book which can be read from cover to cover in about an hour and a half.
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Summary: Outstanding!
Review: This book by Lewis is by far the best Lewis I have read. It sheds a lot of light on how much our present day small petty selfishness prevent us from being able to see the big picture. I particuliarly like the end of the book, where Lewis gives us an excellent glimpse of time, and how time differes for mortal and devine.
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Summary: a real thought provoking book for a 'real' Christian
Review: And what's your excuse for not walking in faith?? Has all the charm of only CS Lewis, and a must for everyone interested in looking at themselves. A 'must have' book if stranded on a desert island.
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Summary: This book will make you think...
Review: C.S. Lewis himself says in his preface, "The last thing I wish is to arouse factual curiosity about the details of the after-world." This book kept me wondering just what he WAS trying to say--whether he thought there were choices after death, or whether he was just trying to get us to think about life and the terrible seriousness but potentially glorious finality of our choices. If you are the kind of person who believes common 90s philosophies like, "That's YOUR reality but not mine," you should let Lewis tell you a little story. Aside from being very entertaining, it cuts right through a lot of "intellectual" nonsense, and makes you really THINK, maybe for the first time "outside the box" you didn't know you were in.
In the end, I believe he makes it clear that there are no choices after death. His characters are simply acting out the choices we make within the boundaries of time here on earth, with the element of time removed from the story as it plays out in "heaven" and "hell." While you are caught up in the story, you will be in another whole "world" of Lewis's creation, and will be surprised to find yourself back on earth at the end--but you'll now see it (for a while at least) through different eyes. Reality is absolute, and what is seen is the least real of all.
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Summary: Imaginary trip into the afterlife
Review: A sometimes overlooked classic of Lewis's, involving an imaginary trip to the afterlife. This was a favorite of the late Sheldon Vanauken (A SEVERE MERCY).
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Summary: Holding a mirror to my soul
Review: This was an easy book to read and enjoy - in some ways. I saw the reflections of so many so-called Christians that I know. But the more I got into it, the more I was confronted by my own false pride and assumptions about the afterlife and how God sees us. Reading this book was like the first time I read (and REALLY thought about) the Sermon on the Mount.
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Summary: The Great Divorce movingly portrays conversion.
Review: Although similar to the Screwtape Letters in explaining Christian doctrine, The Great Divorce movingly portrays he need to for conversion and submission to God. The anedoctal format provides lifelike characters and and shows their struggles to let go of the things keeping them form God. It is one of Lewis's most moving books.
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