He says that if the reader cannot understand this type of poetic longing, he need not go on, for he will waste his time and will not understand the rest of the book. He tells about a longing, a type of desire unlike any other that he sought to experience. Lewis warns the reader of this in the first chapter. I couldn’t make sense of Surprised by Joy. You can read the book online for free, or listen at for free if you’d rather. I wanted to read this book because I was interested in understanding Lewis’s reasons for accepting Christianity. Lewis attempts to tell the story of his conversion from atheism to Christianity. In, Surprised by Joy: The shape of my early life, C.S.
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