I think Lewis tried to pack a little much into the book (it's twice as thick as the others, and a much slower read.) All in all, though, this is definitely my least favorite in the trilogy. I thought that was nifty, it gave Middle-earth and the Trilogy a more 'real' feel because there was a cross-reference. If you aren't familiar with Numinor, read the works of J.R.R. In a good way, of course, it made you want to keep reading - not stop reading. The Medieval feel to it was nice (I like Arthur and the Round Table and such) and I thought Lewis did a good job of bringing tension to the table and keep your emotions tied up. I have a general review here with more quotes - it really is breathtaking how amazing Lewis is with words. 'Nothing could be more disgusting than the one impression nothing more delightful than the other.

'He saw nothing but colours - colours that refused to form themselves into things.' As if some demon had rubbed the heaven's face with a dirty sponge, the splendour in which they had lived for so long blenched to a pallid, cheerless and pitiable grey.' 'Suddenly the lights of the Universe seemed to be turned down. 'They had the experiences of a pregnant woman, but magnified almost beyond endurance.' 'There, totally immersed in a bath of pure ethereal colour and of unrelenting though unwounding brightness, stretched his full length and with eyes half closed in the strange chariot that bore them, faintly quivering, through depth after depth of tranquility far above the reach of night, he felt his body and mind daily rubbed and scoured and filled with new vitality.' '.the stars, thick as daises on an uncut lawn, reigned perpetually with no cloud, no moon, no sunrise to dispute their sway.' The fear of humans is largely addressed in this book. Out of the Silent Planet was very interesting and made me think about humans in a different light.

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