by Kanakaberaka » January 18th, 2009, 4:06 am
Ah yes, Screwtape was the first book by C.S. Lewis I ever read. And It got me hooked! A friend of mine who belonged to the "Moonies" (a whole 'nuther story) lent me this book one evening back around 1980. I began reading it on the subway home. And I could not put it down. I continued reading it for hours after I arrived home. Then after getting some sleep, finished it the next day. It's still my favorite "how not to" book. Lewis claimed he hated writing Screwtape because he had to contort his mind into a diabolic outlook. I appreciate what Lewis has done by approaching the subject of human temptation from the Devil's point of view. I just wish he had been able to illustrate this situation from our guardian angel's outlook, as he suggests in the introduction. What I do enjoy about the Letters is the dark and dry humor. The notion of Hell as a sort of bureaucracy seems more beliveable to us today than old traditional visions.
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Kanakaberaka on May 16th, 2009, 11:34 am, edited 1 time in total.
so it goes...