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That Hideous Strength
That Hideous Strength | C.S. Lewis
Dr. Ransom enters the increasingly pressing conflict between science and ethics and embarks on a mysterious journey
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rwmg
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The earlier books in this excellent trilogy were pipped at the post for 'O' and 'P', but this is my choice for #LetterT in the #alphabetgame

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Thank you for playing 📚 2y
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CaffeineAndCandy
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#AnyWayYouReadathon @kimmypete1 @Eggbeater @MidnightBookGirl

My stack for the #readathon. I‘ve already read Out of the Silent Planet as well as Perelandra. The third book in the trilogy, That Hideous Strength, is the journey I will be embarking on. Also hoping to read Arsenic and Adobo. Thx for hosting guys! ❤️❤️❤️

EvieBee Nice stack! 3y
Eggbeater Thanks for joining us! 3y
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MidnightBookGirl Loved Arsenic and Adobo!!! I also read it through BoTM. Thank you for participating! 3y
kimmypete1 Thanks for joining! 3y
mandarchy I heard that this trilogy is a product of a bet with Tolkien. I loved these books, but not many people have heard of them. 3y
CaffeineAndCandy @mandarchy interesting! 🧐 3y
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wideeyedreader
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I call this a very impromptu book haul! In my defense, I‘ve read four of these, and three are sequels.

Catherine_Willoughby Dracula ❤ 5y
wideeyedreader @Catherine_Willoughby It‘s so good I had to get the pretty copy 5y
Catherine_Willoughby @wideeyedreader which one is that 😊. So many editions around . 5y
wideeyedreader @Catherine_Willoughby its a books a million edition 5y
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MommyWantsToReadHerBook
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Pickpick

Once again, this reread gave me lots of mixed feelings. It's not you, it's me: I'm going through a deep spiritual struggle right now. I guess I wish the way I saw God and his path was as clear as it is in this book. Overall a pick as a good book, just not the best book for me right now.

paulfrankspencer It's never as clear as we'd like, is it?

One of my favorite quotes during these times: don't question in the darkness what you've seen in the light.

One of my favorite concepts: alters/Ebeneezer (“Till now the LORD has helped us“) explained best by Joshua 4:5-7.

I pray that whatever is causing the struggle for you would resolve. I could use some of that too.
5y
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wideeyedreader
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Pickpick

I finished it!! A total of 139 pages in this one tonight (and 63 of The Hazel Wood earlier). I liked this one, though not as much as the first in this trilogy #summersendreadathon

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wideeyedreader
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My goal tonight: to finish this book! #summersendreadathon

megnews You can do it! 5y
wideeyedreader @megnews Thanks for the encouragement! 5y
Clwojick You‘ve got this!!! 💪🏻🙌🏻 5y
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wideeyedreader
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Got a couple hours of reading in before work! Hopefully on the way I‘ll be able to read an ebook I picked up #summersendreadathon

Clwojick ♥️♥️♥️ 5y
BookwormM Love the book mark might have to attempt to make my own 5y
wideeyedreader @BookwormM Mine was given to me, so I don‘t know how to make them, but they‘re very cute! 5y
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wideeyedreader
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All right, I‘m awake, I‘ve got my book and a comfy blanket, let‘s get reading! #summersendreadathom

Clwojick Woohoo! Lets do this! 🙌🏻 5y
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Mtroiano
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Jane begins to have disturbing #dreams but could they be more than just dreams?
#anglophileapril

Cinfhen Creepy cover 😟😱 6y
Reviewsbylola Yeah that cover looks more like a nightmare. 😆 @Cinfhen 6y
Cinfhen 😂😂😂 @Reviewsbylola 6y
Mdargusch Yes! A nightmare! 6y
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Mtroiano
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I love being able to read outside! We had a nice rain yesterday to wash a little of the pollen away and it‘s in the 70s!

Severnmeadows How are you finding it? I re-read it a year or two ago, and was still very struck by it. It had its old-fashioned bits but still seemed very contemporary to me. 6y
Mtroiano I am really enjoying it! @Severnmeadows 6y
Severnmeadows Lovely!😊 6y
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Mtroiano
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Fishing up the trilogy!

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JLaurenceCohen

That Hideous Strength is the final book in Lewis's Space Trilogy. It's a Menippean Satire, so the characters represent philosophical positions.

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TheBookKeeper
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There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there's never more than one.

C.S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength

#cslewis #thathideousstrength #TheBookKeeper

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SleepyDragon
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Tagged book was 16/18 of my #MtTBRChallenge . Only two more to reach my final goal!

Next up, The Nix by Nathan Hill

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SleepyDragon
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Mehso-so

⭐⭐⭐ (rounded up)
Not as boring as the first two, but it was also more chaotic and preachy. As a whole, the entire trilogy was a disappointment for me. I would recommend instead reading academic essays for the theology and other science fiction for a good story.

Here is a review by Denise: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/151739521

#MtTBRChallenge (16/18)

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SleepyDragon
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June Stats:
3 books read
2 Fiction, both #MtTBRChallenge, both picks -
Nightwoods by Charles Frazier
Light in Augst by William Faulkner (#readharder)
1 book of essays, #tbrsupplemental #readharder2018, pan
What are Masterpieces? By Gertrude Stein

Tagged in progress, about 81% complete

YTD:
16 of 18 total books read were #TBR
#ReadHarder2018: 13/24 complete

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SleepyDragon
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Just finished a few laps around the park (mild morning today, only 88 degrees at 10am), and now settling down in the shady grass to wait for my son to finish his jujitsu class. Then it's off to the library for the two of us. This has become our Saturday morning routine, though it will change next week as his class has changed times. This book is more interesting than I thought it would be. #MtTBRChallenge #nofilter

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SleepyDragon
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"There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there's never more than one."

I've been trying to get into this book, failing for the most part, but this passage summarized how I've been feeling lately about the horrors happening to kids right now in the US. It shouldn't matter what your political opinion is, hurting children is wrong. Period.

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SleepyDragon
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The oldest book on my TBR. According to Goodreads, I added it on March 2, 2001. However, I've had it longer than I've had my account. There are other books on my TBR with this date, but I am positive this is the oldest among them. #MtTBRchallenge

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HeatherBookNerd
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This is probably the #WeirdestBookCover in my house at the moment. Good book by one of my favorite authors CS Lewis.
#riotgrams #day17 @bookriot

BarbaraJean I picked books from the Space Trilogy as well! Soooo many weird covers out there for these. 7y
lovelybookshelf Ohhhh I loved that trilogy!! 7y
HeatherBookNerd @BarbaraJean I saw yours. Those are WAY weirder than mine! 7y
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hes7
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An hour until I need to be at my book club and ready to talk about this book... It's going to be close. 😂 (I'm not the only book club procrastinator, right?)

mcipher That is pretty much always me. You're not alone! And you can do it! 7y
Kangaj1 Would love to be there! Love his books! 7y
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Pickpick

I really loved this book, at least once I pushed past the first two chapters. In the foreword, Lewis mentions that this is a fairy tale to bring The Abolition of Man to life and now, I look forward to reading that. This was a great adventure story but also full of Christian allegory as only Lewis can do. I know I will return to this one again and again over the years.

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amandacatherine
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"There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there's never more than one."

I keep wanting to mark all over this book but my copy is short on margins :(

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amandacatherine
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"I happen to believe you can't study men; you can only get to know them, which is quite a different thing."

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BarbaraJean
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Mehso-so

A book set in college for #funfridayphoto. On my first read, I couldn't put it down. I tore through it in a day or two. Then a friend mentioned how sexist it was. Upon re-reading: holy crap. Yep. How did I overlook that?! It's a page-turner, the ideas are fascinating, and Jane even ends up being a decent female character, but wow. Huge sexist assumptions that I could have ignored if they hadn't come from the character speaking on God's behalf...

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Mehso-so

Hoorah I finally finished Lewis's Space Trilogy. I don't think that I ever want to repeat this task. Granted the third book was much better than the first two.