i was describing this book to someone and they told me "that sounds really depressing lewis why are you reading that" etc etc to that sort of effect. im a little disappointed in that mindset - yes, the entire word is burning down around us, and we seem remiss to do anything about it, but so what? should we bury our heads in the sand? we need to write about this, we need to read and write things that makes us uncomfortable because its better to die on our feet than be on our knees