Claire-Louise Taylor: Delivered in good condition as listed.
What can I say about the writing of C.S. Lewis - I have loved his books since I was a child.
France on Feb 15, 2017
spkaca: I read it in a couple of sittings, makes most of Lewis' other writings look comparatively immature. A true classic.
United Kingdom on Feb 11, 2017
LaserJock: Till We Have Faces (TWHF) is C. S. Lewis’s (CSL’s) master work. The first time I read it I was already mature, a college Graduate and familiar with many of his books, but I neither understood it very well nor liked it very much. It was so … strange; strange and terrible. When I reread this Kindle version of it, I loved it. I understood it much better now that I have read and reread many more of CSL’s works since my first reading; it also helps that I have now read many of the same books that CSL was influenced by, particularly The Golden Bough. CSL was a brilliant man; a really, uncommonly, exceptionally brilliant man. When I first came to his corpus through the Chronicles of Narnia I could see only a shadow of this—he was, after all, writing for children. And in his books like The Screwtape Letters and Mere Christianity, he uses his vast intellect to bring difficult ideas down to the level of the general reader. After several readings of these I started to approach his works with a certain intellectual expectation. I don’t know if you’ve ever gone to pick up an empty paint can that turned out to be full, but reading TWHF can be a similar experience; if you are...
United States on Aug 29, 2014
mtgypsy: As posted on my blog, Victoria's Reading Alcove at Wordpress
There are many among us who have suffered some life changing event; an event that changes us in quick or slow ways, forever. These are the kinds of events that cause us to build “public faces.” More often than not, these changes build a wall between us and others at least in part because we do not wish to allow ourselves to be vulnerable to suffer more pain, or its repercussions, ever again.
We also build these walls in our choice to push those who are suffering away. Much like Job’s friends, we seek, in whatever way accessible, to understand the cause and effect of what we see. As humans we are creatures always in search of order. We cannot tolerate the arbitrary, we must find a pattern. In some of us that results in a search for God (or gods), in others it is the explicit effort to eradicate even the hint of the divine from our lives.
I believe, in some way, this was the seed to human sacrifice. In our ancient civilizations, with vastly less understanding than we have today, there was a strong belief that the gods must demand blood and restitution for the shortcomings of mankind. After all;...
United States on Nov 10, 2013
Susan P Black: This is a weird and wonderful book. I read it once and thought it was interesting, but kind of weird and I didn't really "get it". Then I looked up on-line what the author, C.S. Lewis, had said about it and found the themes etc. and the light went on. I went back and read it again, and this time thought it was absolutely brilliant. I loved it! It's become one of my all time favourite books!
Canada on May 09, 2013
友鈴: 著者C.S.ルイスが信仰心篤いキリスト教徒であって、また、著者自身が友人その他にあてた手紙や、キリスト教徒たちによる解説を読まなければ、キリスト教との接点が見えにくいストーリーだが、主人公オリュアルの哀しみが痛いように伝わってくる、心動かされる物語。
『ナルニア国物語』には、力強さがみなぎっており、読むことによって人格の陶冶が促されるという点で、キリスト教徒にとっては（キリスト教徒でなくとも）、まさに教科書的ともいえるファンタジーである。しかし、罪びとであるがゆえに、キリスト教徒であっても、心のなかに消そうとしても消すことのできない澱のようなものがあり、ふとしたときにそれを垣間見ることがある。
キリスト教弁証家として名高いC.S.ルイスだが、Till We Have Facesを読むと、彼でさえも心の奥底では葛藤を覚えていたのだろうかと思わざるを得ない。深い感動を与える一冊。
Japan on May 10, 2006
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Canada on Oct 29, 2017