2 out of 5 stars.A wonderfully written story with many wonderful moments in it. Lewis paints a very vivid picture in this book, and the allegories in it are for the most part, easily seen. This book is an allegory of Heaven and Hell, and how the realities of Heaven are greater than the realities of Hell. This book follows around some folks from Hell who are given the chance to visit Heaven, and shows how those from Hell want nothing to do with Heaven. Especially delightful is Lewis's understanding of humanity, and why those in Hell would rather choose Hell than Heaven. Of course, some of these things are not doctrinally sound, but Lewis says in his preface that he wasn't trying to be sound in everything to begin with. After all, the Bible says nothing about a bus trip from Hell to Heaven, allowing those who take the trip to possibly stay.As many clever things as there are in this book, I believe Lewis ruins his own book. I was shocked to see a writer who has left such a deep an impression upon Christian thought in the last century to be using unjustifiable profanity throughout this book. The profanity only takes away from the book, and I believe that Lewis deeply misrepresents Christ in using it, and that the Christian reader, no matter how much he has been blessed by the other writings of Lewis, would do well to stay away from this work.
