C.S. LEWIS' MAGNUM OPUS? | THE SPACE TRILOGY | Single-volume edition [Hardcover]

[@ryanhoward8694]

The Space Trilogy is one of the most underrated and underappreciated works of all time.

[@brewingbooks]

I agree wholeheartedly 😃👍

[@lorenzoc.b.9809]

I'm currently finishing Perelandra and I totally love this trilogy. That Hideous Strength must be so epic. However, I think Till We Have Faces is Lewis' greatest work.

[@brewingbooks]

Still have yet to read Till We Have Faces and a few other of Lewis' works. So far I'm very impressed :)

[@cheerdown87]

Loved your review and thanks for showcasing the hardcover. My paperbacks have been reread over the years and are showing their age. I will get the hardcover as these books are near and dear to me. When I first read them, Perelandra was my favorite, now it is That Hideous Stregnth, because of its timeless Arthurian theme.

[@brewingbooks]

Glad it was helpful! And I agree that That Hideous Strength, with its Arthurian qualities makes it even harder to choose which of the three is my favourite XD

[@CSLewisFanFilm]

Fantastic trilogy. Great review, thanks for posting.

[@brewingbooks]

Many thanks! 🙂

[@ceeece]

I am stuck with only 100 pages left to go in That Hideous Strength. I had to take a break but I will finish it. Your video is the only one I found that showcased the hardback edition of the trilogy. Thank you! Mine is the soft cover. I wish I had gotten the hardcover.

[@brewingbooks]

You got this! How's it going so far?

[@ceeece]

@@brewingbooks I’ve got 70 pages of another book I “cheated” with and then will get back to it.

[@doghousegalaxy4159]

Well done! My brother is reading this trilogy and his loving it!

[@brewingbooks]

That's fantastic! Happy reading :)

[@jessicastorey8966]

Hi BB, I enjoyed your book review! Thank you! I was surprised, quite pleasantly - somewhat eeriely, surprised to see connections between Lewis' trilogy and the modern world today. I won't expand on my ideas here to keep this short(ish) but I'm curious if other people have noticed similarities between Lewis's imagined evils of yesteryear and today's evils. (Of course this will depend on what one thinks is evil, one more reason I don't expand on it - I want to hear other people's opinions!) It added an interesting, somewhat prophetic nature to his series that I was not at all expecting. Of course the mind sure does love connecting patterns out of chaos, so maybe I'm making more of his work than is there?

[@brewingbooks]

Hi Jessica! Thanks for the kind words 🙂 I think you’re spot on on your ideas about this. I felt the same way when reading the book; how much of what he wrote is very relevant to today’s situation. Which makes one think whether anything has changed really, and whether we as humans are bound to experience the same issues over and over.

[@jessicastorey8966]

@@brewingbooks Absolutely. My thought too. Or, just hear me out, what if evils are actually a reality and there is a cosmic war for our souls? This btw is coming from a recently devout atheist. It occured to me at some point that maybe I don't have all the answers.

[@brewingbooks]

@@jessicastorey8966 It’s such a fascinatingly complex subject. Perhaps evil is just the absence of good - an unfilled void that cannot ever be filled.

[@jessicastorey8966]

That would solve the problem of a devine creator - how can evil exist if "God" is all good? Idk. I wish if there is a creator He'd let me know!

[@brewingbooks]

@@jessicastorey8966 Hehe the unanswerable question I guess 😅 But from a non-deist perspective, evil may be termed as being a lack of morality and sense of justice that dictates the harm done to others.

[@matejailic5479]

Wery good book! Will you make video of your updated bookshelfs?

[@brewingbooks]

Will do soon :)

[@tomsleeckx409]

Aah the book from the intro! It appears to be quite heavy reading-material, but also interesting that this is Lewis's part of the "deal" he made with Tolkien. Looking at the cover it seems it has some wear from all the reading.

[@brewingbooks]

That's the one ;) Yes, it took a number of rough handlings despite the care I tried to bestow. The book's unruly size doesn't help.

[@timewarriorsaga]

On Hideous strength and so far my fav. The first two I had a hard time getting into. I still liked them but it was just hard. Strength has been easier

[@brewingbooks]

Enjoy! I actually found Out of the Silent Plant the easiest to read. Perelandra was the hardest for me.

[@KlingonCaptain]

I would love to see a premium hardcover set of the Space Trilogy. Why are they always so cheap looking?

[@brewingbooks]

Well said! I tend to think that the reason for the lack of a premium edition is somewhat the lack of readership. And perhaps in this case, a hefty sci-fi by an author more renowned for fantasy, might not be to everyone’s liking.

[@youtubeuser1052]

I don't remember much about this trilogy. I loved the Narnia books and my parents had one or two of the books in this trilogy so I started reading it, but didn't like it enough to get the third book. I'm not sure if I read all the way through the first two. I seem to remember it had a lot of religious nonsense, but can't remember any details.

[@brewingbooks]

It is indeed quite a tricky read - very religious and highly philosophical. The first entry in the series is perhaps the best one in terms of a perceptible form of a traditional storytelling narrative.

[@davidivan5656]

I like C.S Lewis as an author but when we talk about fantasy Tolkien comes to mind because he created modern fantasy.

[@brewingbooks]

I agree that Tolkien was a massive contributing factor to modern fantasy, and that his skill in the genre remains unparalleled compared to that of Lewis'.