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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. I always love everything by CS Lewis, this included. He brings up some profound thoughts on the loss of a spouse and I felt like I understand him and know him better. However, I wouldn't tell everyone who has just lost their spouse "You've got to read 'Grief'." Not that impactful or comprehensive and you really have to be a Lewis fan. (  ) stevepaun | Dec 30, 2009 |  A Grief Observed is the journal C. S. Lewis kept after losing his wife, Joy, to cancer. In it he pours out his feelings, as his faith is battered by the storms of grief. I felt a bit awkward reading it, kind of like I was standing around, gawking at a car accident. On one hand, you want to see what's happening, but on the other you don't want to intrude on another's misfortune and sorrow. Of course, reading a published book is hardly an intrusion on anyone. The book was an interesting way to consider my own beliefs without having to personally suffer the loss of my wife. --J. (  )1  Hamburgerclan | Sep 7, 2009 | A deceivingly small book, it is packed full of honest and forthright insight into the thoughts and feelings we feel as we grieve. While I have not faced the death of a spouse (this book was written after his wife passed of cancer), illness, disability and the stress of caregiving has changed me forever. C.S. Lewis gives light to dark thoughts and painful feelings so comfort and healing can begin. The edition I read had a forward written by Madeline L'Engle which offered another thoughtful approach to this difficult subject. (  )1 anjams612 | Aug 25, 2009 | One of the best pieces of writing I've read on death, dissolution, and the reality or metaphor of religious belief. ( ) Wattsian | Jul 16, 2009 | Beautiful and touching. Katya0133 | Jul 9, 2009 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Amazon.com Review (ISBN 0060652381, Paperback)C.S. Lewis joined the human race when his wife, Joy Gresham, died of cancer. Lewis, the Oxford don whose Christian apologetics make it seem like he's got an answer for everything, experienced crushing doubt for the first time after his wife's tragic death. A Grief Observed contains his epigrammatic reflections on that period: "Your bid--for God or no God, for a good God or the Cosmic Sadist, for eternal life or nonentity--will not be serious if nothing much is staked on it. And you will never discover how serious it was until the stakes are raised horribly high," Lewis writes. "Nothing will shake a man--or at any rate a man like me--out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely notional beliefs. He has to be knocked silly before he comes to his senses. Only torture will bring out the truth. Only under torture does he discover it himself." This is the book that inspired the film Shadowlands, but it is more wrenching, more revelatory, and more real than the movie. It is a beautiful and unflinchingly honest record of how even a stalwart believer can lose all sense of meaning in the universe, and how he can gradually regain his bearings. --Michael Joseph Gross(retrieved from Amazon Tue, 05 Jan 2010 12:03:21 -0500) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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