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Title: self-satisfied screed
Review: For those who do not share Mr. Lewis' smug Christianity these letters are likely to quickly lose their charm. Mr. Lewis' religiousness is of a very narrow, cloistered, sort. It arrogantly dismisses practically all worldly conditions and concerns that we may look to religion to address. Neither does it have the depth or feeling one associates with mysticism. It is a religion of the self-satisfied and elect.The conceit of having letters from Screwtape to a favored demon nephew palls at about letter V, there are XXXI. What wittiness there is fades as Lewis settles into his screed.In fact it occurred to me that the work is a satire on the self-satisfied perspective it appears to represent. If so Mr. Lewis has brilliantly fooled a lot of people.
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