John’s Comments (group member since Jan 29, 2009)

John’s comments from the The Inklings group.

Our "Footsteps" tour included visits with Walter Hooper, George Sayer (author of "Jack") and Douglas Gresham. It was pretty cool. This was quite a few years ago, however.

I got to visit The Kilns during a "Footsteps of C.S. Lewis" tour a number of years ago. A fellowship would have been well out of my league.

Thanks everyone. I've used the bibliography from Wikipedia to put together my own list. So far, I seem to be more or less on the right path.

Thank you, Peter. That corresponds with what I've been able to find out. So far, I've read "Out of the Silent Planet," and "Pilgrim's Regress," and I'm about to start "The Problem of Pain." I believe these are at least toward the beginning of his Christian works.

I'm trying to read C.S. Lewis' books, this time around, in the order they were written, or published. Has anyone come across a good list from which I could work?

Elizabeth, regarding additional Lewis books, you might like "The Great Divorce" (It's not about divorce the way we think of it), "The Screwtape Letters" and the "Perelandra" science fiction trilogy.
You're way ahead of me on Tolkien books.

I was in Petoskey, Mich., last week, and I learned that there's a C.S. Lewis Festival there in the fall. Turns out the festival takes place every fall, and this year the theme is: Lewis & Tolkien. I'm thinking of going. It's a lovely little city, with at least two independent booksellers in the downtown. Here's the Web address: http://www.cslewisfestival.org/

And in Edmund Crispin's little mystery novel "Swan Song," the characters not only gather at "The Bird and Baby," they see C.S. Lewis there:
"'There goes C.S. Lewis,' said Fen, suddenly. 'It must be Tuesday.'"