Reread That Hideous Strength last year (along with the rest of the Space Trilogy) and found the parallels between clear satire from 1945 and bureaucratic talking points from 2025 pretty unsettling.

Reread That Hideous Strength last year (along with the rest of the Space Trilogy) and found the parallels between clear satire from 1945 and bureaucratic talking points from 2025 pretty unsettling.

https://open.substack.com/pub/onepercentrule/p/cs-lewis-that-hideous-strength?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=1mt65z

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I've been revisiting a bunch of books I adored as a kid and teenager and have found things roughly flipped.

Couldn't stand Paralandra as a kid. Loved That Hideous Strength. On the boomer reread, Paralandra was wonderful, THS was _hard_ to muscle through. I liked it for its prescience, but man, the bear, merlin, etc, all made it rougher than I remember.

i always liked the first two books but have tried and failed twice to get through that hideous strength