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Wednesday, 24 February 2016 07:14 pm
Book Review: That Hideous Strength
Why did I wait almost five years to continue the Space Trilogy? Maybe the second volume felt like too good a stopping point, leaving little more to my literary appetite. Maybe the last title turned me off. At any rate, I probably should have read this sooner.
...Because if you don't remember the previous villains' names, you may get almost halfway thru the book before seeing any connections at all to the previous volumes. I was prepared to accuse C.S. Lewis, of all authors, of lying to his readership: This couldn't be a sequel! Even when the connections did become clear, there was no space travel depicted and only a slight discussion thereof. After I finished, I skimmed the first half for a new perspective.
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( Evaluation )
This is the first Lewis book that I consider at least as much miss as hit. I hope I haven't read all his adult works that I'd like.
My next read was published much more recently and translated from Estonian to English only last year: The Man Who Spoke Snakish by Andrus Kivirähk. It's long but going fast.
...Because if you don't remember the previous villains' names, you may get almost halfway thru the book before seeing any connections at all to the previous volumes. I was prepared to accuse C.S. Lewis, of all authors, of lying to his readership: This couldn't be a sequel! Even when the connections did become clear, there was no space travel depicted and only a slight discussion thereof. After I finished, I skimmed the first half for a new perspective.
( Plot )
( Evaluation )
This is the first Lewis book that I consider at least as much miss as hit. I hope I haven't read all his adult works that I'd like.
My next read was published much more recently and translated from Estonian to English only last year: The Man Who Spoke Snakish by Andrus Kivirähk. It's long but going fast.