I quite liked 'That Hideous Strength'. The one of the trilogy I hated was 'Perelandra', which I found tedious, preachy, and of course completely incompatible with actual cosmology. Not really Lewis' fault, as he wrote it before the Mariner 2 probe discovered that there was no water vapour in the atmosphere of Venus and its surface temperature was 428°C, but the trouble is that I read the book *after* that mission.
Of course the one of his fictional works that I hate most is 'The Last Battle'; it exposes Aslan as a complete bastard and from then on when I re-read the other books I'm cheering for Jadis.
And Susan, of course, one of the greatest heroines in fiction; which makes the treatment of her in 'The Last Battle' all the worse.
And the Armageddon aspect is just... lame. The forces engaged in that final battle were minute. If they'd joined Peter's army in TLTWATW, or Caspian's in PC, it would have been the equivalent of an extra motor-launch joining the US Sixth Fleet. And on the basis of that tiny little skirmish Aslan decided to destroy all of Narnia. If that idiotic lion is Lewis' idea of God I'm glad I'm an atheist.
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Of course the one of his fictional works that I hate most is 'The Last Battle'; it exposes Aslan as a complete bastard and from then on when I re-read the other books I'm cheering for Jadis.
And Susan, of course, one of the greatest heroines in fiction; which makes the treatment of her in 'The Last Battle' all the worse.
And the Armageddon aspect is just... lame. The forces engaged in that final battle were minute. If they'd joined Peter's army in TLTWATW, or Caspian's in PC, it would have been the equivalent of an extra motor-launch joining the US Sixth Fleet. And on the basis of that tiny little skirmish Aslan decided to destroy all of Narnia. If that idiotic lion is Lewis' idea of God I'm glad I'm an atheist.