The Space Trilogy

Copperfox said:
When you read "That Hideous Strength," note a reference to a place called "Numinor." That was a misspelling by Mr. Lewis of Numenor. Mr. Lewis was actually making his story part of the same reality as "Lord of the Rings," giving Merlin a connection with the same Numenor from which Aragorn's family came. Mr. Tolkien didn't like Mr. Lewis doing this; but since Tolkien's Numenor is also vaguely identified with Atlantis, modern author Stephen Lawhead picked up the ball and ran with it by having HIS version of Merlin be a descendant of Atlantis/Numenor.
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Realy? wow. I found that there was a lot of background mtths in That Hdeous Sterengh which I didnt know very well, so found some of it hard to folow. But it was a most intersting bok all the same. They say tha there is a fine line between genous and insanity, and something i thoght Lewis crosses it while reading it! But overal, I loved them, and will defenitly be reading them again.
 
Hideous Strength is one of the most powerful and prophetic books I've ever read. If you had to put it in a genre, it would be horror - particularly the Belbury scenes. Toward the end, with the story line flicking back and forth between Mark and Jane, you truly get an image of the difference between heaven (St. Anne's) and hell (Belbury).
 
Frank Peretti, in his early Christian suspense novels, had to have been influenced by "That Hideous Strength." Even as far along as "The Visitation," Peretti operates very much like Mr. Lewis in "hunting down" each of his unrepentant villains and giving them what they deserve.
 
I doubt it will ever be done, because T-H-S is such a complicated narrative; it really calls for you to be able to LOOK AT the words and think about them. Besides, not many book-recording readers would both feel comfortable and sound convincing while chanting "Ouroborindra, Ouroborindra, Ouroborindra, ba-ba-hee!"
 
Copperfox said:
I doubt it will ever be done, because T-H-S is such a complicated narrative; it really calls for you to be able to LOOK AT the words and think about them. Besides, not many book-recording readers would both feel comfortable and sound convincing while chanting "Ouroborindra, Ouroborindra, Ouroborindra, ba-ba-hee!"
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and it would be way to changed by the time who ever it was who directed/produced/scripted it was done with it
 
I don't think an audio CD would do the book justice by a very long way. You have to read it for yourself because otherwise many important details would just be omitted. Also the many changes of perspective, I bet I would not be able to follow the storyline as well as when I read the book.
 
While audio versions of books are a valuable resource generally, they have their drawbacks. For instance, many authors, when writing dialogue, will go for many lines of speech without labelling who is saying what. The reader of a visible book is able to see the quotation marks dividing one speech from the next, and can mentally count: "Bill said--Jane said--Bill said--Jane said." But in the audio format, unless character voices can be made to sound different from each other, the listener can easily become confused about who is saying what.
 
I'm just in the middle of reading this series. Currently a short way through 'That Hideous Strength'. I'm really enjoying it and when I'm done I think I'll pop in here properly and see what people have to say!
 
I loved all 3 books! Perelandra was the one I loved the most, I need to reread THS a few times more I think. It creaped me out in places, but as many have said, with such an accurate description of evil, that reaction would be expected. The books were amazing and beyond well done.
 
This trilogy, like "Pilgrim's Regress," falls among those Lewis books with which Mr. Lewis proceeded on the assumption that his readers would share a certain amount of the same education as he possessed. Mr. Lewis is known to have been quite modest about the fame his writings achieved; I don't think he ever imagined that they would remain popular for SO long that one day there would be readers of his books to whom his WORLD would seem ancient and remote.
 
Well, then, you will be able to appreciate an analogy. When I finally broke down and went to see "The Dark Knight" yesterday, it struck me that the Joker was like Weston in "Perelandra"--after Weston had become the Un-Man, discarding the last vestige of moral conscience.
 
Copperfox said:
Well, then, you will be able to appreciate an analogy. When I finally broke down and went to see "The Dark Knight" yesterday, it struck me that the Joker was like Weston in "Perelandra"--after Weston had become the Un-Man, discarding the last vestige of moral conscience.
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Wow, that sounds quite frightening. I suppose they did a good job with the Joker, then. I've been thinking about whether or not to see that movie...Its kind of weird to me since Heath Ledger is no longer living...
 
Eärendil the Mariner said:
I'm a couple of pages away from finishing Perelandra, & I love these books so far! I can't wait to read That Hideous Strength. Speaking of which, I'm off to read! :p
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Nice one!! We'll be able to discuss the books as two readers completely new to the series. I'm making my way through THS as we speak and la-huvving it!!
 
Best line in "Hideous Strength" (showing a thought in the warped mind of one of the villains): "There were not, there MUST not be, any such things as men."
 
How's this for a comparison: compare "Perelandra," in which Mr. Lewis celebrated a femininity untouched by sin, to the movie "Waterworld," during the filming of which Kevin Costner dumped his wife to have an affair with his leading actress.
 
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