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Originally posted by DDDaysh:
I see that there is another topic on this already, but since I haven't read the whole book, I didn't want to read it in case there were any spoilers.

I am reading it right now, and it seems to me to be moving much slower than most of the other books I've read. It isn't bad, in fact it seems quite artistically done, but the style seems less reader engaging.

What really struck me however, was how much the style reminded me of reading Psyche by Lewis. Did anyone else feel like this?

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I'm guessing that you mean "Til We Have Faces" by CS Lewis, and yes. I almost (but didn't) mention it in my list of things people might "get it" better if they'd read first, in that other thread, but the same list goes for that. The thing is, they're both classic Myth, novelized by someone who understands Myth and the religious impulse in the human soul, sexual and blood component and all.

Just for your benefit, I'm going to copy that reading list here.


The Golden Bough
http://www.bartleby.com/196/

"The Masks of God" Joseph Campbell

Jungian Psychology

Greek (and other) mythology

Greek classic literature

Medieval Christian Hagiography


Sibyl
 

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Posted by DDDaysh (Member # 9499) on :
 
lol.. you're right, that was the title, maybe that's why I couldn't find the book on my bookshelf when I was looking for it. (I have two and a half book shelves stuffed full, and not at all organized).

I understood that it was written like a myth, but there was a "voice" to both books that just struck me as eerily similar, but maybe it's just because so far they're the only two modern authors I've seen be able to do it well.
 

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