C. S. Lewis’ The Seeing Eye is a posthumous collection of otherwise not collected essays. As always with such things, it is hard to review. If you step back and ask, “What unifies these essays?,” the honest answer is “Well, Lewis never put them in a collection of essays he made during his lifetime.” Not much of a hook there. So, who buys a book like this? Presumably people who just can’t enough of Lewis. Should you read … [Read more...] about C.S. Lewis and Progress
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Finding Joy in Great Books
Let’s start by getting this out of the way: The Brothers Karamazov, by Dostoevsky is a Great Book (you also knew that). Not only is it Great, it is perhaps the Greatest Novel Ever Written. I think its only competitors for that status are Pride and Prejudice and Middlemarch. Maybe War and Peace. After reading it 4 or 5 times, I still find it brilliant from beginning to end, gripping, thoughtful, and amazingly fun to read. Everything … [Read more...] about Finding Joy in Great Books