![]() ![]() Of course, Lewis' take was much more plodding. It immediately reminded me of Burrough's John Carter books, an influential series of planetary adventures about a man marooned on an alien world. ![]() ![]() Thus I was pleasantly surprised by the opening of this book, which looked to be a more mature adventure with a more-or-less neutral narration. Of course, he's not taken seriously by Biblical scholars or theologians-I suspect this is because his Jesus is a cartoon lion and his God is a space alien.Īs Michael Moorcock pointed out, the prominent tone in both Tolkien and Lewis is condescension, and I admit my general impression of Lewis is that he's talking down to the audience in a sing-song voice as if we're disturbing his perusal of the morning paper. It is strange to me how often Lewis is mentioned as a leading Christian apologist, since his views on Christianity tend to be neither conventional nor well-constructed. ![]()
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