XPost: rec.arts.books, alt.christnet.theology, alt.books.cs-lewis   
   From: fwbrown@bellsouth.net   
      
   In alt.books.cs-lewis Steve Hayes  wrote:   
   > On Sat, 17 Jan 2015 23:52:43 +0000, Jack Campin    
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >>> Certainly I can see the influence of The Place of the Lion in   
   >>> the last book of the Ransom Cycle, That Hideous Strength (1945).   
   >>   
   >>As a recommendation, that comes across to me as saying I ought   
   >>to read the Icelandic sagas because they led to Harold Robbins.   
   >>   
   >>"That Hideous Strength" is an evil farrago of theocratic bullying,   
   >>backed up by Lewis' apologetics of the time which are also bluff,   
   >>bluster, and personality disorder turned into cultism.  I hadn't   
   >>previously associated Williams with anything that repulsive (I read   
   >>one of his books a very long time ago), but maybe I should add him   
   >>to my list of writers I will never, ever look into again?   
   >   
   > I enjoyed both books.   
      
   So did I, though I have never found Williams or his books to be as   
   interesting or edifying as Lewis obviously did.  Williams was a bit   
   too fascinated with the occult for my tastes.  However, it's been many   
   years since I read his books, so perhaps I should go back and give them   
   another try.  On the other hand, I've been an avid admirer of Lewis and   
   his writing (in all genres) since my teens in the '70s and and have read   
   many of his works (including "That Hideous Strength") multiple times.   
   They've held up very well.   
      
   --   
   F. Wayne Brown    
      
   Þæs ofereode, ðisses swa mæg.  ("That passed away, this also can.")   
      from "Deor," in the Exeter Book (folios 100r-100v)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)