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| The middle third of the book is beginning to get slightly better than the first third because you get more idea of what the book is trying to tell you. Even though I'm starting to understand the concept written in the book; however, I still can’t understand meaning of some sentences because a lot of them are written in the complicate way.
This book is recommended for both Christian and non-Christian because it gives warning to walk in the right path of life. For Christians, there are many aspects in life to be cautious about. The book talks about relationship with others, new friends, and parents. Along with talking about it, the book gives good advices of how to become a good person in the society includes living wisely in daily life. It also gives warning against weaknesses in life such as “pride at one own humility” or even sexual temptation. The Screwtape Letters clearly showed us God’s care, love, and grace to human.
The writer gathered experiences from all aspects of life to give warning and encourage Christians to grow spiritually in God’s way.
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As I read on in the first third of the book our group decided to read. I discovered that this book really does require a lot of wisdom to accomplish the knowledge C.S Lewis is trying to tell you through his book. A lot of times I gave up reading for that day when a chapter was done. The reason for that is because my fingers get tired for the opening dictionary. Like what I've said, the book is extremely difficult to understand, not just in the vocabulary but also in the way of Jack's writing.
The key that is still holding me to this book is because I've heard a lot of good, prehaps excelent comments from the elder people at my church who've read the book before. They said it is an excellent book, not just his classical writing part but also the vocabulary word he expressed. It would do you a lot of good in both spiritual and doing in your future. | | |
| I had a negative feeling about this book right from the first paragraph. C.S. Lewis used an extremely hard vocabulary words (like trifle naive, jargon, terrestrial and diabolical) in order to show how strong he felt towards the expression. For example, “But are you being trifle naive? (1) and “…..a dozen incompatible philosophy dancing inside his head…” (1). Along with that, C.S. Lewis also wrote sentences that just reading through it is not enough, you need to think about the sentence to understand it. “They still connected thinking with doing and were prepared to alter their way of life as the result of a chain of reasoning. (1)” What chain of reasoning?
In the meantime, deep down inside, I discovered this book is an excellent testimony. It tells you how humans today are forced and tricked to do in things we never want to. “Work hard, then, on the disappointment or anticlimax which is certainly coming to the patient during his first few weeks as a churchman.” (6).
This book was written to warn us about what devils can do to our lives before it’s too late.
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| After where we left off last time, the story continued in sort of like a zig zag shape. First, they persuaded you to think who the murderer was but in all of a sudden, it isn’t. This happened with the servant. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle gave you all the reasons that the servant could’ve been the murderer, but when the lighting light out of the window event, you knew the servant’s suspicion has ended. The story turned out even more exciting and surprising when Dr. Watson discovered his companion, Sir Sherlock Holmes, had been living in the hut next the hall since he first arrive to collect the information. “For a moment or two I sat breathless, hardly able to believe my ears…that cold, incisive, ironical voice could belong to but one man in all the word,”(128). The story became even more surprising when we knew the woman Sir Henry fell in love with was not a free woman.” Good heavens, Holmes! Are you sure of what you are saying? How could be have permitted Sir Henry to fall in love with her?” (131). Once again, the genius detector Sherlock Holmes, managed to solve whom their enemy was. From that point on in the story, the action began rising once again and ended by telling you every answers of the clue. I really like these kinds of stories because it gave you a lot of impression while reading. One moment you felt scared, the next you were surprised and the next felt exciting. It’s like eating a kind of food and you taste everything you want within the same plate, even though some can be disgusting but this one isn’t.
For once, I needed to admit this is an excellent book and towards the end, I discovered the hard vocabulary didn’t affect my reading at all like the beginning.
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| As the story goes on, more mysterious things happen but hardly were solved yet. I'm not really against to it because all detective books need to be like this to make it a fun and worth reading book. The author released information about the book ending slowly and carefully to make sure it would make the reader more addicted to his writing. “Was it possible that it was Barrymore, after all, whom we had seen the cab in Regent street?"(68). This statement tells the readers who the murderer might have been. But with the "was it possible" you can never be sure of it yet.
I do believe as the story go on and the action will start to rise. That would make this book definitely another Sherlock Holmes worth either wasting or spending time on. | | |
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