C.S. Lewis VS the "Soon To Be Model"

I was perusing the Barnes & Nobles website for something new to read when I came across a section of works by C.S. Lewis.

There seems to be a lot of renewed interest in his works lately, maybe especially because of the great advertisements for The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe that are running right now in theaters. I have to say, it looks amazing and I’m stoked!

I’ll try and see this adaptation of C.S. Lewis' amazing books on opening night if I can.

Although I’ve already read all of the Chronicles of Narnia, scraped every morsel of the story from the dog-eared pages of the books I borrowed from the library and can recount most of it from memory; I can’t wait to start reading the series again.
I know I’ll be posting my thoughts on the books and movies right here in the coming months…they’re just that good.

Before I pick up the brand new box-set for the Chronicles of Narnia, I’ll probably pick up a copy of C.S. Lewis’ “The Screwtape Letters”; which I have heard a great deal about but never had the time, desire or gumption to pick it up for myself.
To be honest; I never picked it up before now because I thought I wouldn’t understand it.

The thing is that anybody that I've known that has read the Screwtape Letters usually came away with some sort of glowing truths or revealed personal mysteries or some kind of new knowledge of the spiritual world…hullo?
In the past I didn’t think I would walk away with anything after reading this book but a headache and a shrug-o-the-shoulders...so I never picked it up...but, I think I'll be able to digest it fully now and hopefully I'll walk away with something too.

If I don't walk away with something new after reading the Screwtape Letters I'll shift the blame for my lameness and blame C.S. Lewis for writing a lame book. Just kidding Mr. Lewis.

While I was going through the Barnes & Nobles site for C.S. Lewis books I came across some customer reviews of the Screwtape Letters...almost all of the reviews were 4 and 5 star reviews with lots of exclamation points and smiley faces with review headings of "AMAZING!", "LIFE CHANGING!" and "C.S. LEWIS NEVER FAILS!" - So, all of these reviews were pretty over the top and I got the feeling that I had stumbled onto the C.S. Lewis Fanclub website...I'm not saying that I'm not a fan, just that I might not cheer so loudly...

Than I got a laugh out of the next review (which gave only one star) and thought I'd better post it here for you to read as well...

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- A reviewer, a soon to be model, December 9, 2004,
- What are you talking about?

I have read only about 1/2 of this book and have no clue what is going on. He really needs to put this in English.

Also recommended: Harry Potter
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A couple things come to mind when I read this review...
1. A "Soon To Be Model"?
2. A Soon to be Model that doesn't understand a book written by a literary genius?!?
3. A Soon to be Model that likes Harry Potter and Harry Potter alone!?!?!?
4. I especially like that the Soon to be Model suggested that C.S. Lewis rise from the grave and rewrite the Screwtape Letters so that a Soon to be Model can understand it...or as the Soon to be Moeloquently so eloguently "He really needs to put this in English."

Ahh, the Soon to be Model and the wisdom whence came from her...or him.
Tisk.