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Summary: Human Nature
Review: I agree with many of the other reviewers that this book is definitely the best of the trilogy. It is a thought-provoking novel that gives a clear vision of human nature, how our sinful nature came to be, and how it can be defeated. In Perelandra Lewis uses a less confrontational genre (the fictional novel) to deal with deep philosophical questions like "If sin is bad for people, then why does God put that forbidden fruit-tree in the garden of Eden and allow sin into the world?" And the explanation he offers in this novel is deeply satisfying. Overall, this book is a great read. Lewis is definitely the master of writing fiction that is both beautiful in literary style and philosophically interesting.
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Summary: You'll either love it -- or just plain not "get it".
Review: I agree with other reviewers who suggest that, even if you're not into the allegorical aspect of the book, it is worth reading for the stunning descriptions of an alien planet. I've read the book several times; the most enjoyable was while on summer vacation in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. Reading about the green seas and golden skies, the variegated floating islands, the bubble trees, etc., while surrounded by the wondrous beauty of our own world, was a profoundly enjoyable experience.
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Summary: Perelandra
Review: I have read C.S. Lewis's Perelandra series before and enjoyed it beyond belief. I HIGHLY recommend this and other of C.S. Lewis' science fiction writtings. I'm back to buy one of my own. A great read over and over again. It will encourage and challenge you. It will even make you think. Get it,and get changed. :-)
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Summary: Spirituality disquised as science fiction
Review: I have read this book twice quite a few years ago and I plan to read it at least one more time. At the time the messages of the book were really lost to me. Lewis, in his description of this utopian wonderland and all the creative ways he answers some of lifes great mysteries, is quite compelling. This book has such great depth that one reading, fascinating as it is, is not enough. I think I would read it now with a different and deeper understanding.
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Summary: 2 stars is generous...
Review: I love the Narnia books, but this 'Space' book is really not very good. It has no basis in scientific fact, so if you are looking for that go elsewhere. Perelandra is really just the story of Adam & Eve (on Venus, or Perelandra as it is called) with the serial numbers filed off. Elwin Ransom and his antagonist Weston are both learned men, and it is smacked over your head time and time again as the dialogue is quite verbose. (when there is dialogue at all) Most folks don't speak that way now, and I doubt they spoke that way back then. (When was it originally published? During WWII, I think. Shame on the publisher for not including that!)
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Summary: I love this stuff
Review: I love this book! Perelandra is a book about a man named Dr. Ransom who was kidnapped by two humans to take to sacrifice to the planet Malacandra. Now he is called to the planet of Perelandra to protect it from a man named Weston who is possesed by the devil. Weston is trying to get the first women on the planet to disobey god and sleep on the fixed land. Just like when the serpent told Eve to eat the fruit in the garden of eden. If the women goes on the fixed land Perelandra falls into corruption just as earth.
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Summary: Beautiful description but preachy and tedious
Review: I loved "Out of the Silent Planet" and "That Hideous Strength". The only reason I didn't put down "Perelandra' halfway through was because I wanted to finish it so I could read the third book. This book lacks an engaging plot and instead indulges in excessive, tedious, religious evangelicism. The other books get the same message across without slapping you in the face with it. Having said all that, this book is an excellent example of Lewis's amazing powers of description; it was the prettiest of the three books.
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Summary: A Good Story, A Great Sequel
Review: I really enjoyed "Out of the Silent Planet", and proceeded on to the sequel. I was enchanted by this world of floating islands, and the prospect of returning to the Garden of Eden with hopes that we might "get it right". This one had me reading into the wee hours more than once. It's as close as I've been to obsessed for a long time.
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Summary: Voyage to Venus - or is it Paradise before the Fall?
Review: I refer to the Pan Book published in 1963 under the title 'Voyage to Venus'. The visual experience so richly experienced by readers of 'Out of the Silent Planet' is even exceeded here. Although it is less varied, it is more magical and evocative. The story itself contains much philosophy and religion much of which I am uncomfortable with, unsure of, or confused by. I am left with too many questions, and there are too many alternate paths for the story which are not excluded by its own inner logic. We all know the first few bars of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. It is unthinkable that it could have been an ascending phrase rather than a descending one. The inner logic of the symphony demands it to be the way Beethoven wrote it. With 'Perelandra' this is not so for me. The story could have gone in different directions and at the end I am unconvinced by the direction C S Lewis did take it. But, having said that, it is a wonderful vision that has remained strongly with me since I first read the book while I was at High School and was great to renew (and the rediscovery of 'Out of the Silent Planet' at High School when I had read it even earlier in my life was similar) .
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Summary: Voyage to Venus - or is it Paradise before the Fall?
Review: I refer to the Pan Book published in 1963 under the title 'Voyage to Venus'. The visual experience so richly experienced by readers of 'Out of the Silent Planet' is even exceeded here. Although it is less varied, it is more magical and evocative. The story itself contains much philosophy and religion much of which I am uncomfortable with, unsure of, or confused by. I am left with too many questions, and there are too many alternate paths for the story which are not excluded by its own inner logic. We all know the first few bars of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. It is unthinkable that it could have been an ascending phrase rather than a descending one. The inner logic of the symphony demands it to be the way Beethoven wrote it. With 'Perelandra' this is not so for me. The story could have gone in different directions and at the end I am unconvinced by the direction C S Lewis did take it. But, having said that, it is a wonderful vision that has remained strongly with me since I first read the book while I was at High School and was great to renew (and the rediscovery of 'Out of the Silent Planet' at High School when I had read it even earlier in my life was similar) .
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