Out of the Silent Planet

Pros: describes space travel in a compelling, adventurous way; solid crafting of another world; the closing segment when CS Lewis provides his translation of human nature.

Cons: although I like CS Lewis a lot, I've always thought his dialogue was a little stuffy; never really “takes off;” I didn't quite grasp all the pieces he was trying to pull together from sci-fi, Christian mythology, and his own new ideas.

On the whole, there's a lot of books to read in this world, and I was unconvinced to finish the trilogy.