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   On 2/16/2015 8:15 PM, Jerry Friedman wrote:   
   >> C. S. Lewis was no determinist, fortunately. I missed the early part of   
   >> this thread.  Are you a Lewis fan?   
   >   
   > I've had many happy hours reading and rereading the Narnia books and the   
   > Space Trilogy.   
      
   :)  My grandfather bought a set of the Chronicles of Narnia for me and   
   my younger sister and brothers (four of us) for Christmas when I was   
   fifteen.  I loved them.  At the time, I had no idea who Lewis was or   
   that he was a famous Christian writer: I was raised non-religious and   
   was newly Christian.   
      
   It took me a bit longer to get into the Space trilogy, especially the   
   last book of it.  I'd been reading science fiction (more than fantasy)   
   since I was eight and a school librarian had introduced me to Andre   
   Norton.  A year later, another school librarian at a different school   
   shoved one of Ursula Le Guin's books in my hands.  Lewis's Space Trilogy   
   was sold as SF, but it was too dated as SF for me at that time.   
      
   Later, when I figured out that reading it as fantasy worked beautifully,   
   I became a fan.   
      
   >> What about his books do you like best?   
   >   
   > The fantasy and the uncompromisingness, even though I disagree with a   
   > lot of his views, starting with Christianity.  And I like his writing.   
   > Especially in his non-fiction, he writes so clearly that you can see   
   > just where the fallacies are.   
      
   There are some, but not that many, I find.  Just disagreements with   
   David Hume, for the most part.   
      
   > And you?   
      
   Somebody at my church in high school (a restorationist Church of Christ)   
   pointed me to "Mere Christianity" after finding that I liked the Narnia   
   books.  I was impressed, and started finding and reading his other   
   books.  I was thoroughly hooked by the time I went off to college.   
      
      
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