My Thoughts: The Great Divorce

If you want a quick fun read, then read this book. This book is fairly small and can be read in just a few nights. This is a fictional allegory about heaven and hell. Majority of the book is about heaven. Even though it is a fictional novel, C.S. Lewis still has some very good insights of what it may be like and how we should live our lives here on earth. These insights must be taken figuratively in order for them to make any sense at all. Many of the ideas that Lewis has in this book make more sense if you have read some of his other works. The ideas in this book are most resident, but from a different angle, in Mere Christianity and the Weight of Glory. The ideas in these books are being applied in the Great Divorce. It was a good, but I do not by any means think that it is one of Lewis’ classic works. The points and main idea of the book were good, it’s just that I have read Lewis at a much higher level then this. Out of 5 stars I will give it a 3.