@SorinaHiggins
(Answer copied from exTwitter because I saw your question there first -- algorithms do have their uses)

I don't really hate anything about Lewis's writing, though I like some of his books less than others. For example I found "The Horse and his Boy" too moralistic for my taste. My review here:
https://methodius.blogspot.com/2023/02/the-horse-and-his-boy.html
#Inklings #Narnia #kidlit #mglit

"Near fatal enthralment". It is like "The Silver Chair", is it not? That symbol, in Lewis's #Narnia book, no longer seems wholesome to me. Partly it's because the story of "The Lady of the Green Kirtle" is too much akin to an antisemitic trope about a Jewish temptress in a green dress, q.v. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Hugh, but also because Charles Stansby Williams's first ever book of poetry, which contains the poetry he composed while courting his wife, is called...

..."The Silver Stair".

~Chara Tomlinson

Surely Walter Hooper and Douglas Gresham and the great gang of fanatical American Christofascist businessmen who latched onto the posthumous affairs of #CSLewis and never let go, who made themselves rich off endless cheapjack reprintings of "The Chronicles of #Narnia" and ever other scrap of Lewis's work they thought marketable (even "The Dark Tower", which reeks of sulphur and boiling pitch), who let Warnie Lewis drink himself to death in the decade after his brother's death (oddly coincident with that of JFK and Aldous Huxley), loathed Michael Stansby Williams.

I do not like thinking about what they may have done to him, slowly, slyly, over the fifty-five years between the death of his father and his own departure. The contemporary saviours of "Western civilization" and guardians of Christ have no qualms about driving other human beings toward lonely and despairing deaths.

~Chara

@vivdunstan Aww come on; you can't say this and *not* give a link!

#BBC #Narnia