Reviews for The Count of thirty

The average rating for The Count of thirty based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2013-09-16 00:00:00 Deidre Ashton A mixed bag. Some essays are dumber than dirt, written by minds shallower than a wet streak on the pavement. J.B.S. Haldane is shrill and so offended by C.S. Lewis's Christianity; Robert Plank understands Lewis as well as a haystack understands a stallion; and a naked mole rat has more hair than Charles Moorman has logic as he tries to analyze Lewis's and Tolkien's various styles and ambitions. But W.R. Irwin's analysis on Charles Williams's abilities and choice themes is fantastic. Makes me want to reread the few Williams novels I've read'and to read more. The real crown, however, is Peter Kreeft's afterward, "The Wonder of The Silmarillion." Kreeft calls "Wonder" what Lewis called Joy or Sehnsucht. It is the same Joy stirred up by Tolkien's eucatastrophe; it is stirred by all the great tales, because all the great tales are actually the same tale'the best story ever told'and we are still in it: the Story spoken by and born into and bled for by the Author.

Review # 2 was written on 2015-05-20 00:00:00 John Doe Literary criticism was so readable in the 60s! My God! Though I guess it helps that this was a book devoted to literary criticism of genre fiction that was written in the 1960s, which probably causes some selective pressure in terms of what the contributors would be like. Of course my favorite paper is the one by the Romantic poetry expert, but I did feel as though most of them, even the ones about Williams, whom I've never read, had something inspiring in them. Even the Epilogue was good where it quoted from Lewis on Joy. The rest of the Epilogue. . . I mean, I have reason to believe that the 70s was when literary criticism stopped being so readable, anyway, even if that wasn't quite the way I was expecting it to become less readable.