The Space Trilogy

Well, it's kind of freaky. Ledger turned in a tremendous performance, but because of that, it's disturbing. The only other portrayal of a maniac psychotic I've seen that surpasses it is Forest Whittaker as Idi Amin in Last King of Scotland. Whittaker was so convincing in that that I was literally frightened by the character. Ledger as The Joker came darn close.
 
Whoa! I must see it ... is it rated R though? I don't like a lot of language ...

OK, this thread got me thinking about THS so I set Goose Girl aside, and I started reading THS again. I love the description of the college meeting at the beginning, because it shows so clearly how information is manipulated, even by those who give a show of remaining impartial.

The Bursar, Busby, gets offended when anyone asks if he is honestly suggesting this or that, and he says he is not suggesting anything at all, but before his presentation of the actual numbers even begins, the junior fellows are convinced tht protecting Bragdon Wood means they have to go on starving!

And then somehow the old guard who don't want Bragdon Wood sold to the NICE are subtly equated in everyone's mind with the people who want to put up a barbed wire fence around it!

This same sort of manipulation still goes on today; when people can't refute their opponent's arguments, then they start trying to make them look ridiculous and impute ridiculous aims to them -- even when there is no evidence at all that they espouse those aims ... It's scary.
 
Woot for the Space Trilogy! I'm due for a reread...

Perelandra's one of my all time favorite books. I love the idea of a world that succeeds where we failed - and what that would lead to. I also love reading the arguments between Ransom and the Un-Man, some very thought provoking stuff in there. THS I didn't care much for the first time around, but the second, I was able to focus less on plot and more on the themes in it, and I went WHOA, this is a lot better than I remember it!

So yeah, yay for the Space Trilogy, great, great stuff. :D
 
That may be my fave, too, although I also love Perelandra. It cracks me up at the end of Silent PLanet that Lewis included a sort of afterward from Ransom with all the things that he wished he could have worked in, but found no place for ... it makes you wonder if Lewis didn't somehow get to Mars himself ... :)
 
It had just that quirky thing of "why would he add this to the end when the story is already over?"

I also very much liked the relationships on Malacandra between the three hnau species, how the otter people sent Ransom on that short-cut that almost killed him, and then the birdie-people gave him oxygen to restore him and said those otter people would never have thought of that, but they would have made Ransom a nice epic poem if he had died up there and thought that was just as grand as having set him on a safer route ... it was a funny interplay of intelligent species.

Sorry, I cannot remember the names of the species right off-hand!
 
I know. I can't remember the names very well either. I cried my eyes out when that one otter person, Ransom's friend, got killed on that hunt. I felt like a good friend had just died. (I cried my eyes out over the Last Battle as well; it's kind of a habit of mine, I cry over almost everything)
 
Lady of Narnia said:
I know. I can't remember the names very well either. I cried my eyes out when that one otter person, Ransom's friend, got killed on that hunt. I felt like a good friend had just died. (I cried my eyes out over the Last Battle as well; it's kind of a habit of mine, I cry over almost everything)
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Oh, I am right there with you. It was just so shocking how his otter friend died like that, right after their great adventure together ... you can't help but cry. Ditto for TLB. I always cry when I read it. I haven't read it in a while now because it is so sad in parts.
 
I was finally able to find THS on audio CD. Looking forward to it's arrival next week. Will be able to listen to it on my MP3 player (Zune).:)
 
Hey, Timmy! Haven't seen you in a while. Hope you are having a nice holiday season.

Enjoy the audios!
 
inkspot said:
Hey, Timmy! Haven't seen you in a while. Hope you are having a nice holiday season.

Enjoy the audios!
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Hey Inkspot, I have been enjoying going through THS on audio. Listening to it is so much easier. I have read the book before but it has been years since the last time. I have been trying to re-read it, but if you have ever read THS it is a long book and the first half is very slow. I can never keep interest in reading and I end up putting it aside. But once you get to the last half of the story Lewis has some very profound things to say and it is still very contemporary. The enemy is still out there.
 
I prefer audio books myself. I'd love to find audio copies of all of them. I agree Timmy. Lewis wrote about subject matter that was often timless. It applies today just as much as it did then, and it would still apply to our grandchildren. I need to go back again and read through the trilogy again, especially THS. It's been awhile. You're right when you say that it starts out slow and then picks up a ton at the end.
 
You can get the Audio CDs thru Blackstone Audiobooks.

Francis A. Schaeffer thought highly of The Space Trilogy, and recommended that you read them often.
 
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