Rating: 
Summary: Good, but not "Out of the Silent Planet"
Review: Not nearly as readable as Out of the Silent Planet. The ending is a little heavy handed and chiched for Lewis. It's still a great book and worth reading for people who enjoyed the first book. I don't know if I'd reccommend it on its own.
Rating: 
Summary: An epic battle between good and evil in the 2nd Ransom novel
Review: 'Perelandra' departs from traditional science-fiction, as viewed uncomfortably in 'Out of the Silent Planet' and moves more into the realms of fantasy. Having been sent to Perelandra (Venus), by the Oyrasa of Mars. Elwin Ransom soon finds himself faced with a possessed old adversary, and having to simultaeneously defend the sinless virtue of the first female on the Planet. Inevitably Ransom is faced with a desision which will affect Perelandra's future. A brilliant novel, more in tune with John Milton than H.G.Wells, the descriptions of the planet itself (A far cry from the real Venus), are worth reading alone
Rating:
Summary: This is an astounding peice of work with much meaning.
Review: This work is extrodinary and astounding. It takes you places that are beautiful, strange, and exotic. Not only does it do this it also stimulates your imagination and allows you to open up your mind. These storys also carry a deep meaning. The are amazingly intertwined and completely agree with Christian ideas.
Rating:
Summary: Visually brilliant; ignore the Christian stuff
Review: I've read Lewis's trilogy a number of times--first when I was thirteen years old. I wasn't aware of the religious connotations at that age and enjoyed the book tremendously. I can guess that some Christians like Lewis because of his message, which is a bit forced, but I like him for the strength of his imagination, particularly evident in the first two parts of the trilogy. All that other stuff is a waste of space as far as I'm concerned, but he's a great writer and gets away with it.
Rating: 
Summary: Forget about free-will...
Review: Admittedly, I went into this book knowing that Lewis liked to allegorize religion. However, I was not prepared for the extent to which this allegorization took place, and found the book too horribly oppressing and proselytizing to continue reading it past the climax scene. This is not a spiritual book disguised as science fiction. This is a diatribe disguised as a novel.
Rating:
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.
Rating:
Summary: C. S. Lewis' most "heavenly" book
Review: C. S. Lewis wrote in the Introduction to his "Screwtape Letters" that one reason why he had not written a similar book about angels was that "every sentence would have to smell of heaven." In Perelandra, he has achieved that effect. The imagery and the sheer reason combine to make the most powerful and compelling picture of good vs. evil since the Book of Revelation. In Dr. Elwin Ransom we have a strong, good, yet thoroughly human hero; in Dr. Weston a chilling portrait of the real nature of evil. This is a book that should be read over and over again. It has something new to offer me every time I go back to it. C. S. Lewis wrote in his autobiography that his imagination was "baptised" by George MacDonald's Phantastes. For those seeking a similar imaginative experience, I wholeheartedly recommend Perelandra. For the whole experience I recommend the other two books of the trilogy, but Perelandra also stands on its own.
Rating:
Summary: Choosing Sides: Noise and Silence
Review: The reviews below are fascinating, recalling Jesus' stark question of the Baptist's hearers: 'What did you go out into the desert to see?' If it's entertainment and exotic creativity, why not look elsewhere? You will find these of course, but only at the cost of having missed much. If, to some Purpose, you are compelled to explore the agonizing wastelands of moral chaos, be well-advised to take the adventure Aslan sends. With Ransom, you may just sense the terrifying reaches of moral ambiguity, casual indifference, and spiritual weakness, the deep mysteries of human decision-making and Inhuman Courage, the simple earmarks of innocence and guilt. You may just glimpse a tiny, invaluable essence of the struggle with principalities and powers at extreme elevations. ...because Perelandra isn't really a novel, and most especially not science fiction. It's a manual, a guidebook, a map. It's a War Prayer, batteries included. If you want less, happily, you will be disappointed. 'From Strength to Strength go on.'
Rating:
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.
Rating:
Summary: Complicated but worth it!
Review: While "Out of the Silent Planet" spends most of its time in world-building and "The Hideous Strength" is a wonderful handling of depravity, "Perelandra" is the great philosophical/theological book. The topics are extremely deep so it is sometimes hard to follow, but well worth the effort. This is were he deals with some of the real "why" questions asked through the ages, like "Why was eating a piece of fruit such a big deal?" "Why did God even put the tree there in the first place?" "Why create the universe, and how does it all fit together?" etc.
| 
