It’s a first read, amazingly! There isn’t much that I have left to read (for a first time) from Lewis.
I am roughly halfway through, and while it won’t dethrone the Space Trilogy as my favorite work of his, there’s something I find immensely satisfying about recognizing the threads from many of Lewis’s other works (fiction and non-fiction) in TWHF.
The writing style harmonizes with the way that I have read Greco-Roman myths before, but perhaps that’s because Lewis is already one of the major influences on the way I read myths.
Wait for part two (part one is far more than half the book) before you say it won't dethrone the space trilogy.
I reread it just about a month ago actually, so I was excited to see it on your list. I haven't read Lewis's nonfiction as widely as you so there are surely some threads I'm missing but I also find it an immensely rich work. As a meditation in love, especially. (The Four Loves is one of the books I haven't gotten to yet but if I had I'm sure it would be fruitful to have in mind).
CS Lewis is always hovering around my reading lists. I have reread many of his works multiple times. In particular I return to the Space Trilogy, the Abolition of Man, and Miracles reasonably often.
I also have a book of essays he wrote, and those short pieces have a great deal of wisdom in them (but that book is in a box, probably with my two manuals, and i haven’t figured out which box it is yet)
What do you think of Till We Have Faces? Is this a first read or a reread?
It’s a first read, amazingly! There isn’t much that I have left to read (for a first time) from Lewis.
I am roughly halfway through, and while it won’t dethrone the Space Trilogy as my favorite work of his, there’s something I find immensely satisfying about recognizing the threads from many of Lewis’s other works (fiction and non-fiction) in TWHF.
The writing style harmonizes with the way that I have read Greco-Roman myths before, but perhaps that’s because Lewis is already one of the major influences on the way I read myths.
Have you read it? If so, what do you think?
Wait for part two (part one is far more than half the book) before you say it won't dethrone the space trilogy.
I reread it just about a month ago actually, so I was excited to see it on your list. I haven't read Lewis's nonfiction as widely as you so there are surely some threads I'm missing but I also find it an immensely rich work. As a meditation in love, especially. (The Four Loves is one of the books I haven't gotten to yet but if I had I'm sure it would be fruitful to have in mind).
CS Lewis is always hovering around my reading lists. I have reread many of his works multiple times. In particular I return to the Space Trilogy, the Abolition of Man, and Miracles reasonably often.
I also have a book of essays he wrote, and those short pieces have a great deal of wisdom in them (but that book is in a box, probably with my two manuals, and i haven’t figured out which box it is yet)
Miracles I haven't read. The other two, yes. I think there are parallels to parts of The Abolition of Man in Till We Have Faces.