The Space Trilogy
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TimmyofOz
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Going thru Malory's account of Arthur one can almost feel that Lewis was inspired by Arthur's sister, Morgan le Fay, for his White Witch. Morgause even has the power to turn her foes into stone. It is funny seeing Merlin putting people to sleep just like he does in THS.
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TimmyofOz
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Has anyone ever seen a copy of the abridged version of THS, sometimes called The Tortured Planet. There is a big debate who abridged it, Lewis himself or the publisher. There is an advantage to a shorter version of THS, but in the end I think you lose too much.
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Hmm - I've never heard of such a thing. Interesting.
TimmyofOz
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Although there are those who just won't beleave Lewis abridged THS, I can't find any evidence that contradicts that Lewis did indead produce an abridged version of THS a couple of years after the first printing of THS came out. The abridged version was done for Avon.
TheWarriorSatyr
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I finally finished the Space Trilogy! It was amazing!
So glad you liked it! For whatever reason, I never read it until I was in college, and it blew me away. I knew CSL was a great author, having grown up with CON, and I had read Screwtape as a kid, too ... Anyway, after I read Space Trilogy, I totally wanted to call up CSL and talk ... I was so sad he was already long gone from earth!
PhoenixRider
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I've read out of a silent planet and peralandra. They were great! Cant wait to read that hideous strength. Is it as good as the others?
Arvan
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Yes it is, but pretty different. Each book is like a different genre; Out of the Silent Planet being more sci-fi, Perelandra leaning more towards fantasy. Now, That Hideous Strength is different from both. There's some end-times-ish type stuff, Arthurian legends, and even a hint of horror about it. Quite a page-turner!
Strength is slower getting started than the other two, but well worth the wait - it picks up quite soon and builds to a very dramatic completion.
PhoenixRider
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Sounds epic. I'll have to get it from the library.
tirian_son_of_erlian
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I thought THS was a bit complicated! I'm glad to realize I was completely crazy; perhaps I was actually following it pretty well.
Copperfox
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It was a daring step on Mister Lewis' part, when writing That Hideous Strength, to leave Elwin Ransom offstage for many chapters. Readers are of course wondering, "Just where DID Ransom get to?" But by the time Ransom reappears, the situation for Mark and Jane Studdock has progressed far enough so we can SEE why the force for good that Ransom represents is so sorely needed.
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Greensawmill
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I agree. Now that more than a year has gone by since reading the Space Trilogy, I find myself thinking far more about THS than the first two... Perelandra did leave some deep impressions... But at the time I was reading it I really wondered if it was ever going to make any sense to me
Nice to see you here GSM!
Lewis recognized that people might be confused about the slow start of THS and in the intro says something about its being comparable to a fairy tale that begins "Once upon a time" and starts out with a quite ordinary description of a situation before it ever veers of into the fairy story parts. I thought it was a good way of explaining it.
Lewis recognized that people might be confused about the slow start of THS and in the intro says something about its being comparable to a fairy tale that begins "Once upon a time" and starts out with a quite ordinary description of a situation before it ever veers of into the fairy story parts. I thought it was a good way of explaining it.
Laurel
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Nice to see you here GSM!
Lewis recognized that people might be confused about the slow start of THS and in the intro says something about its being comparable to a fairy tale that begins "Once upon a time" and starts out with a quite ordinary description of a situation before it ever veers of into the fairy story parts. I thought it was a good way of explaining it.
I liked that, too. I had never really thought about that part of fairy tales until Lewis pointed that out, so now I think about it with every fairy tale-type story I read. I'm currently reading a series where the author updated traditional fairy tales for the modern world (for example, Snow White--not the Disney version!--is now set in modern New York City), and recognizing some of the same elements as in THS in these books is really cool.