11-29-2004, 01:58 AM | #1 |
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Till We Have Faces
Just decided to teach this book....was wondering what folks here think of it.
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11-29-2004, 01:52 PM | #2 |
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I'll be back regarding TWHF, Forkbeard. I am in a dash, as it were!
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11-30-2004, 01:20 AM | #3 |
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OH ... MY ... GOODNESS!!
One of the best books I"ve ever read - took me 20 years to understand it, tho! FABULOUS book! Should be required reading for legalistic Christians!
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12-04-2004, 03:07 PM | #4 |
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Lot of time since I read it, but I remember I loved this book. Especially the first part.
... I think I was too young to understand the second one
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Quote:
your link doesn't work (I assume were missing the remains of the link (...)). If you just copy a link with an ellipse it doesn't get the ellips-ed information.
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03-28-2006, 03:16 PM | #6 |
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i love C.S. Lewis Till We Have Faces was great!
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I don't claim to fully understand it, having read it only once... but I loved it, so moving and beautiful. It's the only (non-Narnia) Lewis-book I actually own. A nice new edition. *loves her university's bookstore*
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03-29-2006, 05:51 PM | #8 |
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It was one truly one of the best novels...*wipes tear*
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08-01-2008, 11:55 AM | #9 |
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I've read it. I'll have to re-read it... I don't really remember all of it. However, as I write this post, it's slowly coming back to me.
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08-30-2008, 03:36 PM | #10 |
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I read it earlier this year - I had read it (at least some of it) several years ago, without really remembering anything from it.
There are sections of it where I think Lewis is just showing what position the main character has reached, without really having shown how she got there. I feel that something is missing.
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