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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kahuna Burger" data-source="post: 1369489" data-attributes="member: 8439">from his religious writings, by the way, I've never actually believed that claim. He went from being a casual christian, to a lapsed christian to a hard core christian, and from the hardcore perspective, confused his lapsed time with a strawman version of atheism. His own descriptions of the way he thought at the time don't describe atheism, but a rebellious member of his religion. All religion aside, narnia didn't particularly grab me. My overall impression of Lewis is that he is a brillient wordsmith. He puts words together in beautiful ways that make whatever he is saying or describing seem abslutely perfect. Its a wonderful talent, and it will make his books worth reading on that level if no other. However, that doesn't make the content and context perfect, just lovely in their presentation. So you may end up enjoying the moments of reading them, but left with less than you might have gotten from a less prettily phrased novel. (this is actually very similar to my opionon of shakespeare, whose plays were mostly crap in the plot and message department, but damn poetic.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> )Kahuna Burger</blockquote>