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The Joyful Christian

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This book could properly be called "The C.S. Lewis Reader," because it is a collection of Lewis' essays, sermons, and excerpts from his books. The writings are arranged by topic. On the plus side, this format allows the reader to find out Lewis' thoughts about various topics. His brilliant mind tackles such issues as life on other planets, atheism, the Trinity, and over 120 other engaging topics. The negative is that many of the excerpts are usually only two or three paragraphs long and this does not allow a person access to Lewis' whole opinion on that particular subject. Still, the book includes an index that shows which books the essays were taken from. This allows the reader to explore Lewis' views more in depth. Overall, I highly recommend this book. It acts as an excellent introduction to the thought of C.S. Lewis for a new reader or a handy topical reference for those already familiar with him.

This collection of Lewis' essays is a good read. It's well-categorized and as such, makes for a good "bathroom book". You can open it randomly, read a bit on a given topic and set it aside.

And it contains some of Lewis' best work and pithy sayings and profound wisdom. Lots of quotable quotes and also includes ideas that can be life changing if you let them hang around in your consciousness long enough.

I love "Jack's" writings anyway and this book is just a good collection of his best ideas.

However, my #1 favorite Lewis book is "The Screwtape Letters" which should be read in it's entirety.

This work is a compilation of essays, chapters and letters of other works Lewis has written. They are arranged by topics. This is a great tool for someone who may not own all of Lewis' works, or (even if they own the works), would like to easily access the material on the basis of topic.