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C. S. Lewis: The Screwtape letters (Paperback, 1977, Fountain Books) 4 stars

A milestone in the history of popular theology, The Screwtape Letters is an iconic classic …

Excellent read.

4 stars

An excellent read. The creative structure and perspective of temptation from the perspective of a devil is, in a word, clever. It had me enamored from the beginning. With short, digestible chapters, it's no wonder how this very book caused C.S. Lewis to be so popular. Not only this, but the theological and ideological meat packed so neatly into each chapter is excellent food for the mind. However, I found myself a little bored through the book. Screwtape kept running off on ideological monologues that felt quite forced, and with that repeating over and over for almost every chapter, I felt as if it didn't really give the text much time to breathe. I think if there was more content like is found in chapter 22 and the final chapter dispersed throughout the book, it would make the experience far smoother and more enjoyable is it would give the personality of Screwtape to develop more.