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General Category => Entertainment => Books => Topic started by: Solars Toy on May 15, 2021, 02:04:50 PM

Title: The Screwtape Letters
Post by: Solars Toy on May 15, 2021, 02:04:50 PM
Has anyone read this?  I am a few pages in and already getting lost.... :huh:  :confused:

Any advice greatly appreciated.  Toy
Title: Re: The Screwtape Letters
Post by: tac on May 15, 2021, 03:37:00 PM
I read this book years ago and enjoyed it. I also read most of C.S. Lewis's other books and enjoyed them all. I should probably read them again.
Title: Re: The Screwtape Letters
Post by: tac on May 15, 2021, 03:49:32 PM
Toy this link might help you https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/screwtape-letters/ with the book.
Title: Re: The Screwtape Letters
Post by: Solars Toy on May 15, 2021, 03:53:25 PM
Quote from: tac on May 15, 2021, 03:49:32 PMToy this link might help you https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/screwtape-letters/ with the book.

That looks like a great place to start.  Thanks Tac.

Toy
Title: Re: The Screwtape Letters
Post by: Grammy on May 15, 2021, 04:08:03 PM
One of my favorite books, big C.S. Lewis fan. 
Title: Re: The Screwtape Letters
Post by: tac on May 15, 2021, 04:49:51 PM
Quote from: Solars Toy on May 15, 2021, 03:53:25 PMThat looks like a great place to start.  Thanks Tac.

Toy

You're welcome Toy, I hope you enjoy the book.

I highly recommend the movie Shadowlands. Excellent movie.
Title: Re: The Screwtape Letters
Post by: Solars Toy on May 15, 2021, 05:05:32 PM
Quote from: tac on May 15, 2021, 04:49:51 PMYou're welcome Toy, I hope you enjoy the book.

I highly recommend the movie Shadowlands. Excellent movie.

Sounds interesting.

Shadowlands is a 1993 British biographical drama film about the relationship between academic C. S. Lewis and Jewish American poet Joy Davidman, her death from cancer, and how this challenged Lewis's Christianity. It was directed by Richard Attenborough with a screenplay by William Nicholson based on his 1985 television film and 1989 stage play of the same
Title: Re: The Screwtape Letters
Post by: Grammy on May 16, 2021, 04:12:17 AM
Quote from: tac on May 15, 2021, 04:49:51 PMYou're welcome Toy, I hope you enjoy the book.

I highly recommend the movie Shadowlands. Excellent movie.


The scene between C.S. Lewis and little Douglas at the end gets me every time.   :sad:
Title: Re: The Screwtape Letters
Post by: Twinkle on February 11, 2022, 05:03:17 AM
I recently went back and reread Lewis' "Out Of The Silent Planet" trilogy, having initially read it back in the early/mid 70's, and was chilled by how the final book, "That Hideous Strength", went from being fiction the first time I read it, to being descriptive of so much reality that has happened in the last couple of decades.

Amazing read.