10-15-2006, 10:21 PM | #1 |
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The Great Divorce
I'm reading "The Great Divorce" in a study group.
Who else has read it? Thoughts?
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10-16-2006, 12:06 AM | #2 |
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That was the one with the bus ride to Hell, right?
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10-16-2006, 07:13 AM | #3 |
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Close... actually FROM Hell, to Heaven.
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10-16-2006, 04:05 PM | #4 |
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I have almost bought that book about a dozen times...I always bought something else ...I need to get it.
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10-16-2006, 07:29 PM | #5 |
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Yes - It's very good. And a quick read, too.
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Very good book! It has some real insights in it. I enjoy it every time I read it. I like the concept how people get farther and farther away from everything as they get farther from God, and how we're too "wimpy" to handle reality - how the very grass hurts our feet in heaven until we're made stronger.
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I just read that about a month ago. I need to read it again though I didn't quite understand it all yet, and Lewis usually takes about two readings..for me anyway.
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10-18-2006, 05:48 PM | #8 |
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On Amazon, The Great Divorce is No.1,700 odd on the sales rank for books. Mere Christianity is:
Amazon.com Sales Rank: #217 in Books
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I read it, and it's now one of my favs. It was really moving, and the concept of heaven being hard to live in for the lost people...ingenius.
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