Posted on 03/19/2020 8:43:30 PM PDT by nickcarraway
I read Dune once.That was enough.
Read and enjoyed LOTR several times.
He was definitely a snob about C. S. Lewis’ work even though they were friends.
Do you remember who the third person was who died on the same day as Kennedy and C.S. Lewis? Interesting.
I beg to differ. He was certainly an influence but he did not convert C.S. Lewis.
The Screwtape Letters read by Cleese are a masterpiece.”
Thanks for that tip, I’ll be searching that out.
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As much as I enjoyed Tolkien, I think I enjoyed Dune more. Suspension of disbelief wasnt as much required with Dune. Matter of fact, replace spice with petroleum and its go time.
Dessert setting?
Absolutely...I have it. Time to listen again!
I liked the Dune series but then have realized that the author must have had a bit of snarky bit of fun, making bank on a series in which the entire universe was hooked on psychodelic worm feces! Spice blow indeed! At least Duncan Idaho in the later books reintroduced A.I. and computers allowing FTL ships without Spiced space navigation.
An entire universe hooked on baby worm feces and making millions off the books. I’ve been had! L Ron Hubbard must have ben envious of Herbert.
Brits of academe fame love trying to out”snob” each other...it’s their national past time.
Aldous Huxley...
There is a great book from Peter Kreft about them in the lobby of the afterlife having a discussion.
You are correct. CS Lewis was let to the LORD by a combination of things and people. GK Chesterton and his writing were credited by Lewis as examples of those things. The friendship between Lewis and Tolkien are a little overblown, they were definitely friends. Tolkien did not like the mixing of different mythological characters e.g. Greek characters and North-Western European types in one setting, he was a bit of purest. Hence, he didn’t like Narnia that much.
They were friends, but later Tolkien grew estranged for several reasons.
I read/heard somewhere to replace spice with a substance holds the value of oil and cocaine simultaneously.
Patrick OBrians Jack Aubrey/Stephen Maturin books are also on that shelf.
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I have special leather-bound copies on my shelf...some of the best written novels Ive ever read - and Im not even a sailor!
I actually really liked the prequels but I saw more of Kevin J. Anderson in the writing.
Then again, I’m just sitting back waiting for a Foundation or Rama series of films.
The problem with getting a book to the screen is the director.
Like a dog, they have to sniff it and piss on it before anything else about it can get done.
Without googling, no, I don’t. Who else did we lose that terrible day?
How many noticed the Arabic honorifics used, as well.
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