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A review by loganmaloney
The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis
4.0
3.75
This is an extremely unpopular review of this book. I know many people rave about this book and how beautiful and challenging it is. I agree that this book does make you think a lot about heaven and hell and definitely challenges the normal thinking of afterlife. It also does an incredible job stretching your mind to see different aspects of heaven and hell that you have never thought of before.
My biggest problems with this book is that there was not much of a storyline with the guy when he was visiting the places. He mainly was just over-hearing one conversation after another and I found that most of the conversations taught the same thing and felt like Lewis could covered many more subjects if he changed some of the scenarios. Lewis also took a lot of the bite out of the view of hell that I do not think lines up completely with scripture. He describes it as basically a mindset instead of the weeping and gnashing of teeth that scripture tells us.
Something that I also found somewhat frustrating is that every time Lewis posed a much more in-depth theological question, his teacher never answered anything and went on a round about way to say it doesn’t necessarily matter. If he wanted to show that some of these questions didn’t matter he could’ve done that through a scenario of someone basing there whole life off of knowledge or something like that. I also was hoping to get a lot more detail in the ending. I know I’m being harsh with Lewis but I still think he is an outstanding author and would still recommend this book to anyone due to its challenging concept.
This is an extremely unpopular review of this book. I know many people rave about this book and how beautiful and challenging it is. I agree that this book does make you think a lot about heaven and hell and definitely challenges the normal thinking of afterlife. It also does an incredible job stretching your mind to see different aspects of heaven and hell that you have never thought of before.
My biggest problems with this book is that there was not much of a storyline with the guy when he was visiting the places. He mainly was just over-hearing one conversation after another and I found that most of the conversations taught the same thing and felt like Lewis could covered many more subjects if he changed some of the scenarios. Lewis also took a lot of the bite out of the view of hell that I do not think lines up completely with scripture. He describes it as basically a mindset instead of the weeping and gnashing of teeth that scripture tells us.
Something that I also found somewhat frustrating is that every time Lewis posed a much more in-depth theological question, his teacher never answered anything and went on a round about way to say it doesn’t necessarily matter. If he wanted to show that some of these questions didn’t matter he could’ve done that through a scenario of someone basing there whole life off of knowledge or something like that. I also was hoping to get a lot more detail in the ending. I know I’m being harsh with Lewis but I still think he is an outstanding author and would still recommend this book to anyone due to its challenging concept.