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    <body><![CDATA[I loved this book!   It is clear that it was written with more than a knowledge but rather a deep understanding of &quot;the search&quot; and the many different viewpoints that one comes into contact with along the way. The graceful art in which he interwove and utilized one's capacity for spacial v...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59735859">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was not Lewis' best work, but its lacks can be understood in light of what else we know of him.  First, he wrote it as a brand new Christian, having rejected worldly philosophy but not having lived much of the Christian life yet.  Having read his later work, <em>Surprised by Joy</em>, I recognized many ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75661677">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I found this book a little harder to get into than other books by Lewis. It was fashioned after the <em>Pilgrims Progress</em>. It has some good allegory, but does not capture the imagination as well as his other books do. <br/>The illustrations are awesome.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I like this one better then Pilgrims Progress, that may seem like blasphemy to Bunyan fans, but I think the Regress is more real to me then Progress. I guess its probably the Old English that turns me off to it.<br/>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was surprised to find that I didn't enjoy this book in the least, because I like many of <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q= C.S. Lewis" title=" C.S. Lewis"> C.S. Lewis</a>'s books. Maybe it's because this book was written by a British author in the 1930s, but I had a very difficult time understanding the allegory. The story is supposed to follow a man's journey throu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37871560">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is an interesting allegory along the lines of Bunyan's &quot;Pilgrim's Progress&quot; which seems to depict Lewis' own spiritual and philosophical journey. Average readers (like me) may not pick up on some of the symbolism here, but there is enough of interest for Lewis fans (like me) to make i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68396834">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[As books by CS Lewis go this is obviously one of his first. I do not want to detract any amount of brilliance from this book, but I have to say it was jumbled together quite voraciously and lost me at several turns. Overall I am glad to have read this book as it is an ode to the foundation of many o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58231065">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book helped me to gain a better understanding of how God brings people to Himself:  personally.  Everybody who comes to God follows a different path.  That is, of course, not to say, that there are many paths to God; there is only one way:  Jesus.  But, Jesus brings everybody to Himself in a di...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42706068">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[In short, not Lewis at his best.  <br/><br/><em>Pilgrim's Regress</em> is a strange mix of allegory, philosophical monologues, and poetry loosely cast together.  The book never quite achieves that unity of flowing narrative the way the <em>Narnia</em> series does.  It's more a parade of vignettes than a story prope...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7567474">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love C.S. Lewis but I'll be honest here. this one went almost completely over my head the first time I read it. I got a philosophical reference here and there but Lewis was so well versed in philosophy that I was left in the dust and forced back to the drawing board. Anyone who has studied Lewis p...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76273546">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[C.S. Lewis finds a way in the Pilgrim's Regress to take his personal, intellectual journey, from staunch atheism through many different stages, and turn it into an allegory that I found , unlike other reviewers, to be surprisingly contemporary.  I liked Bunyan's Pilgrims Progress, but identified mor...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59148401">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a good book, but if you haven't read a lot of <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q= C.S. Lewis" title=" C.S. Lewis"> C.S. Lewis</a>' work already--particularly his autobiography, <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q=Surprised by Joy" title="Surprised by Joy">Surprised by Joy</a>--then you probably won't understand it at all.  He writes in the Afterword that Pilgrim's Regress isn't entirely autobiographical, but is 'unnecessarily cryptic'.  It was...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5602101">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have a feeling that every time I read this book, I'll learn something knew, and I really must read it again.<br/><br/>Yet it can't trump Screwtape, so 4 stars.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Probably my favorite Lewis book! it's been a while since i've read it, but i can't recall when a book made me stop and reflect more than this one.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Quite obviously C.S. Lewis' first published work. All the allegorical concepts get kind of confusing after a while. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wonderful book. Wisdom and humor all wrapped up in one marvelous treasure.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was amazed yet again, at Lewis: he was such a brilliant man <em>and</em> an incredibly good writer. Somehow he managed to take his own personal intellectual journey, from staunch atheism through many different stages, and turn it into an allegory. It's pretty stretching to follow the arguments, especially ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26953126">more...</a>]]></body>
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