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   From: hayesstw@telkomsa.net   
      
   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.   
      
      
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