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Summary: Know Your Enemy!
Review: "Lord Foulgrin's Letters" is one of the most engaging books I have ever read. From the moment I started reading it, I did not want to put this book down.Lord Foulgrin is a upper-level manager in charge of a few demons, including the demon who has been assigned to Jordan Fletcher, Squaltaint. Lord Foulgrin has written letters to Squaltaint, instructing him on how best to keep Fletcher firmly in their service and not the Enemy's (God) serivce. These letters have now fallen into human hands and have been put together in this book for all to read. Based on C.S. Lewis' popular "Screwtape Letters" book, there are two major differences. First, this book is nowhere near as difficult to read as STL was. Secondly, before we read each letter we are treated to a snippet of the life of Jordan Fletcher and his family. This make for a much more entertaining and compelling book. As you read this book, you will find many similarities between your life and Jordan Fletcher's life. In addition, you will often feel like the letters from Lord Foulgrin are about your own life. The letters will make you think and review your own life to see how the demonic enemies have directed you off the path. One of the best fiction books of all times, you should have it as part of your collection.
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Summary: Know Your Enemy!
Review: "Lord Foulgrin's Letters" is one of the most engaging books I have ever read. From the moment I started reading it, I did not want to put this book down. Lord Foulgrin is a upper-level manager in charge of a few demons, including the demon who has been assigned to Jordan Fletcher, Squaltaint. Lord Foulgrin has written letters to Squaltaint, instructing him on how best to keep Fletcher firmly in their service and not the Enemy's (God) serivce. These letters have now fallen into human hands and have been put together in this book for all to read. Based on C.S. Lewis' popular "Screwtape Letters" book, there are two major differences. First, this book is nowhere near as difficult to read as STL was. Secondly, before we read each letter we are treated to a snippet of the life of Jordan Fletcher and his family. This make for a much more entertaining and compelling book. As you read this book, you will find many similarities between your life and Jordan Fletcher's life. In addition, you will often feel like the letters from Lord Foulgrin are about your own life. The letters will make you think and review your own life to see how the demonic enemies have directed you off the path. One of the best fiction books of all times, you should have it as part of your collection.
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Summary: Read the Enemy's Mail
Review: Alcorn takes on a formidable assignment here: recreating the spiritual tension and truth of CS Lewis' "The Screwtape Letters" while adding a more modern framework for the story. He succeeds brilliantly--and, let me add, gives Lewis credit for the basic premise. In each chapter, we follow the struggles of the Fletcher family. The scenes are snippets really, backdrops for the corresponding 'letter' in each chapter where Lord Foulgrin strategizes this family's downfall in diabolical ways. Though I might've enjoyed more fictional fleshing out of the Fletcher's story, I was far from disappointed by Alcorn's insights into the spiritual world. This book will peel back the deceit of our culture and challenge you to put your household in order. Is CS Lewis turning in his grave over this book? If he is, it's probably to give Alcorn a hand. In reading the enemy's mail, you'll be equipped to better thwart his devices to divide the homes of America...including your own.
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Summary: Read the Enemy's Mail
Review: Alcorn takes on a formidable assignment here: recreating the spiritual tension and truth of CS Lewis' "The Screwtape Letters" while adding a more modern framework for the story. He succeeds brilliantly--and, let me add, gives Lewis credit for the basic premise. In each chapter, we follow the struggles of the Fletcher family. The scenes are snippets really, backdrops for the corresponding 'letter' in each chapter where Lord Foulgrin strategizes this family's downfall in diabolical ways. Though I might've enjoyed more fictional fleshing out of the Fletcher's story, I was far from disappointed by Alcorn's insights into the spiritual world. This book will peel back the deceit of our culture and challenge you to put your household in order. Is CS Lewis turning in his grave over this book? If he is, it's probably to give Alcorn a hand. In reading the enemy's mail, you'll be equipped to better thwart his devices to divide the homes of America...including your own.
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Summary: Deep, Engrossing, could have been better...
Review: Alcorn writes very explicitely in the Screwtape tradition. I found myself quite challenged by much the demons have to say, and with every reading, had to put the book down and contemplate my life. There is a lot more here on (supposed) demonology and interactions in the lowarchy, including some spicy references to Screwtape himself. And while Screwtape Letters works quite well as it is, Alcorn's format, interspersing letters with storyline, also lead to an engrossing read, as I found myself caring deeply about the characters and what might happen to them. I was not at all expecting the denoument. I particularly enjoyed Alcorn's description of hell- not as a place of fire; explicitely not as a place to have a "good time with all my friends"- but as a place of utter lonliness, separate from God and all people. Every thing of the afterlife can in the end only be described with metaphor, but I have long imagined hell to be just such a place. However, read this book with some grains of salt, for if the salt loses it's saltiness...Lewis wrote from a wonderfully strong ecumenical perspective. Alcorn does not. At times, the book seems less the demons talking about how to destroy humanity, than Alcorn using the modicum of demons in order to lay out his personal agenda for the church. Not that that's a bad move- but it's not as much of what I'd like. So sometimes, when he's talking about materialism, I really agree with Alcorn. He lambasts both the left and the right of the church, equally. But other times, such as an entire chapter on how the demons have used evolution to destroy Christian thinking, or how they want kids to go to American colleges, as most of them will lead humans away from Christ, I couldn't disagree with him more. In reading this, I realized how this format can be quite insiduous in drawing you in. If it is demons talking about how to destroy humans, of course you don't want to agree with demons. And so when they talk about evolution, I for a moment am confused, thinking that I definitely don't want to believe evolution is true, if the demons came up with it. Until I wake up, and realize that, after all, this is just a work of fiction. For I could just as easily write: "My dear Squaltaint, Whatever you do, don't let those Christians stop arguing about origins and myths of how Genesis began, and how and in what manner the Enemy created. For as long as they continue to argue about those particulars, and insist on misinterpreting the clear meaning of the Enemy's Book, by reading it literally, they will continue to ignore the clear message of the Enemy- that he is powerful, and intimate. If they continue in their unending arguments on creation and evolution, they will miss the message the Enemy wanted to give them. Whatever you do, keep them from realizing that! For if at some point they stop in these arguments, they will realize that He is close to Him, and powerful, and then it's just another step before they realize they can have powerful over us. (Those miserable sludgebags!)" The point is not that evolution is wrong, or right; the reader may agree or disagree on this one example. The point is that there are many times the reader may not agree with Alcorn's theology, and therefore, be careful as you read through this work, contemplate it slowly and chew it as cud. It is quite easy to make anything sound bad, when demons are talking. If you consider it all carefully, I believe Lord Foulgrin's Letters will be immensely more helpful for you, and your walk.
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Summary: The enemy is real
Review: Alcorn's book is a simple, well written account of a middle-aged man and the demons that plot to destroy his soul. This account is similar to Lewis' Screwtape Letters, but it is not a retelling of that classic. This book stands on its own. I found this book to be helpful in "observing" how dark spiritual forces may indeed work. Naturally, the direct actions and words of "Lord" Foulgrin have been sanitized for readability, but he is indeed a wretched demon. Reading this book made me more grateful that I have a strong tower in the Lord to run into in times of stormy trouble.
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Summary: Look in the Mirror
Review: Author Randy Alcorn holds up the mirror for the church in this novel of spiritual warfare. Like C. S. Lewis's demon Screwtape, Lord Foulgrin writes a series of letters to his assistant as he mentors the lesser demons in how to prevent people from embracing the Christian faith. The book is noteworthy both for its creativity and its subtle convicting power. Again and again, Foulgrin's letters pierce the facade of our culture's comfortable Christianity, hitting every moral issue of our time. For example, on moral responsibility, Foulgrin writes, 'What they most fear and despise is moral accountability. They'll gradly embrace any theory removing this built-in sense they must answer for how they've lived.' It's a riveting read, with redemptive value.
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Summary: This book is a great addition to anyone's collection
Review: I can't say enough about this book. Having read C.S. Lewis' Screwtape Letters, I was skeptical about Mr. Alcorn's book. However, I soon changed my mind. This is a very modern look at spiritual warfare and is a thorough analysis of the many ways that Satan tries to distract Christians and non-Christians alike. I like it so much that I am now leading a youth Bible study (I'm a youth director) on this very book and my youth are excited about reading it. Thank you for this book Mr. Alcorn.
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Summary: MANDATORY READING!!!
Review: I do really wish that everyone would have to read this book. Unfortunately there is no way to talk the school system into making it part of the cirriculum but it should be.
This book shows what is going on that we can not see. Just because the spiritual realm is not visible does not make it any less real. With all of the talk of angels and Sylvia Browne's it is great to see a book that deals with the true nature of that other realm.
I hope everyone will read it and take to heart what is said.
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Summary: be prepared for soul searching!
Review: I enjoyed this book very much. I think that these types of books help people to learn about Christianity and its values in a way that most nonfiction books can not. My **only** problem with this book is parts with the human viewpoint. I had hoped when I bought the book that it would be like two of my other favorites: C. S. Lewis's Screwtape Letters and Walter Martin's Screwtape Writes Again.
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