I read this as a green young kid in the summer of 1963. I was thirteen.I was amused by it, but not forewarned by it -Bemused by the Screwtapian segues into coolness - but not, unfortunately, convicted of my obviously myopic venial sin in my confusion.Sound familiar?I now need a reread. Desperately.This is NOT a comic novel. If you think it is, you ultimately don’t know if you’re punched, bored or reamed. You must UNLEARN your myopia - before it’s Too Late. I’m serious.Perhaps you don’t know you’...

Young Wormwood is on his very first demonic mission and is at a bit of a loss as to how to do this. There's so many ways to corrupt, but which is the right way to do evil? "Indeed the safest road to Hell is the gradual one--the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts...Your affectionate uncle, Screwtape."Luckily, he has his Uncle Screwtape to consult. Under Screwtape's gentle guidance, Wormwood hopes to bring another soul to their Dark Fat...

It's always the books that I randomly come across or the spur of the moment reads that almost always end up (pleasantly) surprising me.This book was so out of my range and certainly not the kind I usually pick up but I wanted something different and wow, was it that. It was thought-provoking (and very unnerving at times) with an interesting premise that had me questioning a lot of the things that we do without even realising and the effects of these actions.You know, there are many reasons why I...

This book helped open my eyes...how often do we become distracted by the actor and not the act? If a script is written you still have to agree to follow it as an actor...but no one can force you to read lines you do not want to. Satan often just wants us to improvise - no lines to learn - a vanity fair always ready to accept dunces as 'understudies'.

ToMR. SOURPUSSMost Revered Lower SecretaryMinistry of TemptationDear Sir,At the outset, let me express my deep regret at a set of my letters (to my wayward nephew Wormwood) having fallen into the hands of a loyal servant of the Enemy and getting published. I will take the liberty of saying most emphatically that this is not due to any lack of foresight from my part: Your August Person used to know Wormwood, and what a nincompoop he was. I must state with no little pleasure that our current set o...

Where do I begin unloading this colossal bag of thoughts that are raging in my mind since yesterday? Well, my friend, you seem to be the victim today. So be it. Don’t term me evil; it is just the scent of one, I lived with for the last five days.Actually, this work is hardly anything except for a bunch of letters, from a senior to a junior; it is nothing more than a series of succinct correspondence, gathered cannily and disbursed even more astutely to the promising newbies. Now, have we all not...

The Screwtape Letters is essentially a work of Christian Apologetics written as a satire. The premise is that a series of letters are being written by a master "tempter", Screwtape, to his nephew, Wormwood, while he is trying to lead the life of a Christian, called the patient, astray. Like any work of Christian Apologetics, it is clear the intended audience is people who are already Christian and its purpose is to reinforce the beliefs that its audience already has about Christianity and provi...

This is my first book of C.S. Lewis outside the Chronicles of Narnia Series. I want to balance my reading list with good, wholesome and inspiring Christian books so I decided to try the works of Lewis and look for an e-book. Fortunately, I was able to find one online so I started with Screwtape Letters.The Screwtape Letters is a series of letters written by Screwtape, a senior demon, to his nephew and a neophyte tempter, Wormood, about the different ways to tempt a newly converted Christian they...

I love this book - it really makes you think. For those who have not read it, the book is written as a compilation of letters from a "tempter," Screwtape, to his nephew, a "junior tempter" named Wormwoood. In the letters, Screwtape gives Wormwood adivce and counsel on how to best tempt his "subject" - a young man who converts to Christianity, and then falls in love with a Christian woman. Through the letters, you are constantly reminded and made to think about how the adversary tempts us. What i...

If not for the fact that this is a satire in earnest, it would serve as a powerful absurdist invective against humanity itself. If this book improved my view of Christians it was only because it points out that all the faults conspicuous in the rabidly faithful are equally well-represented in the uninformed agnostic, if less readily apparent--Lewis does his best to drag everyone down to a common level.The sharp weapon of Lewis's rhetoric tears down humanity through all its self-righteous hubris,...