Looking for The King
by David C. Downing
Tom is 23, Californians studied something and is now in England because he wants to write an Arthurian guide. Laura is also an American dream, constantly by some historical scenes set in Enland, and is in England to go to get to the bottom. The year is 1940, England is about a terrible war.
in early Glastonbury Tom is hit on by two men stupid, later Laura and he pursued at any other stage of their search for anybody. meets some reason Tom CSLweis will find it of just such some reason so likeable, that he invite him to attend a meeting of the Inklings, which it also does not set out in more detail Reasons are incredibly nice. Laura attended to and the stations of their dreams and dreams then nothing, and actually no one is looking for King Arthur, as the title suggests, but all looking for the Lance of Longinus, because who is invincible, and that is on the eve of a war's not very practical.
far, so good. The author is obviously Lewis expert and has written several books about him. Apparently he knows by heart the entire correspondence of the Inklings, because there is actually an attachment, in which he points out, that quote has conversation in which he brought for any letter. It is also the author of Christian and a good part of the Book is thus devoted Christian theory. That would make me nothing, after all, Lewis was so devout Christian, but that Tom at the end must also be, of course, where he already gets the girl, I find a bit of overkill. Actually, Tom is an arrogant, insensitive fool who treated Laura like a silly girl. What she sees in him, I do not understand for the life. But well, that's not until the end of the book, and until then he is purified ...
The coronation of the whole, I found that Tom with the tag "Holy Lance" was not immediately do something. As a researcher Arthur! Kindly him a few details have still occurred, but how can you Tennyson (which I now do not read again;)) quote from the head and not know what the Holy Lance?
On the sense and nonsense of the plot I will not miss me now on, we come to the plus points of the book: Lewis, Tolkien, Williams and Dyson are human, friendly and sympathetic shown. Of course, with huge respect because they were human, kind, brilliant, and this incredibly modest. Whether that is true (no idea if Tolkien did not actually 1940, as he is called by her first name), was now to be seen again, but it is sympathetic in any case.
The places described in the book are detailed and lovingly described, and make you want to visit them yourself. Some of them I've seen it, but Malmesbury could be on the list for the next time the Cumbrian Mountains already on it. ;)
Tom loves Cadbury Hill.
Whoever wants to read a nice book about Americanized British Christian writers, found in the still secret untalented runner and Nazi spies, who will have much fun. As I said, the local color is great. Otherwise would be perhaps rather one of many books, written by the same author Lewis recommended.
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