Surprised by Joy - C. S. Lewis

Title: Surprised by Joy
Author: C.S. Lewis
Genre: Christian non-fiction
Rating: 4/10
# pages: 192
Date read: March, 2007

Summary: In this book Lewis tells of his search for joy, a spiritual journey that led him from the Christianity of his early youth into atheism and then back to Christianity.

Review: I somehow mixed this book up with the one he wrote about his wife (wasn't her name Joy?), so it took awhile to get into the proper mindset when I discovered it wasn't the book I thought it was. Even so, I wasn't terribly impressed by it. As wonderful a writer as C.S. Lewis usually is, he just couldn't keep me interested in this one. I felt a bit like going "Yes? And?" when I finished it. Somehow the writing style just completely failed to grasp me. Granted, he did write a disclaimer very early in the book, saying that if one found the previous chapter boring, they should give the entire book a miss. Guess I should have heeded that advice :-S

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