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jofwu 's review for:
The Pilgrim's Regress
by C.S. Lewis
It's been a loooooong time since I read something by C.S. Lewis and to be perfectly honest I think much of this rating owes itself to my nostalgia for his style and authorial voice. It was just *really really nice* to read a fresh piece of C.S. Lewis fiction for the first time in over a decade.
The beginning of the novel hooked me really well. The critique of "Puritania" was *fantastic*. A great example of Lewis at his best, calling things out as they really are in a way you just have to laugh at.
The more academic the book got, the less interested I got. This is for a few related reasons. I understood going into this book that, while Lewis intended this as a more general allegory, it's more accurately a portrayal of his *own* experiences. And his experiences are something quite different from my own, which makes the story less relatable. Indeed, he apologizes for this in the Afterword... And in that case he was thinking of others at the time of writing, nearly a century ago. Which is to say, my own experiences aren't just those of a different person in his world, but of a person in a different world entirely. Beyond all of that, I simply don't have the academic background to fully appreciate much of this book.
All of that said, I still found plenty of jewels along the way. The story and the prose kept me engaged even if I'm not the ideal audience.
The beginning of the novel hooked me really well. The critique of "Puritania" was *fantastic*. A great example of Lewis at his best, calling things out as they really are in a way you just have to laugh at.
The more academic the book got, the less interested I got. This is for a few related reasons. I understood going into this book that, while Lewis intended this as a more general allegory, it's more accurately a portrayal of his *own* experiences. And his experiences are something quite different from my own, which makes the story less relatable. Indeed, he apologizes for this in the Afterword... And in that case he was thinking of others at the time of writing, nearly a century ago. Which is to say, my own experiences aren't just those of a different person in his world, but of a person in a different world entirely. Beyond all of that, I simply don't have the academic background to fully appreciate much of this book.
All of that said, I still found plenty of jewels along the way. The story and the prose kept me engaged even if I'm not the ideal audience.