C.S. Lewis
Master Storyteller

I loved this book. Just enough pretentiousness to be awesome, just enough information to be useful.......more

While home visiting my parents, I noticed that my mother borrowed this book from the library, so I decided to give it a read. The book was a disappointment despite the glowing endorsements on the back cover, I can't understand how they read what I read. Lawlor simply was incomprehensible, unclear an......more

Lawlor studied with C.S. Lewis and was afterward a teacher of literature. He offers memoirs of his time with Lewis, which are quirky and brilliant, and then he offers some reflections on the works of Lewis, which are indeed interesting. He disagrees with Chad Walsh, for example, on the scene of West......more

The memories were great and interesting. The reflections, over half of the book, dig into the author's analysis of Lewis' writings. They are less than great.......more

Having only just begun this little book, I"m already charmed by the very personal recollections of a student and colleague. Lawlor's description of Lewis arguing a point with another scholar and talking circles around him -- I find that charming. This is a first-person source document and not a stri......more