C. S. Lewis' "Surprised by Joy" is a wonderful book. It is delightful and sublime. Like all Lewis' work, it confounds the dreary atheists(and the even drearier agnostics) and recalls to us the beauty of the divine.
The book is also an affecting portrait of his childhood, worthy of comparison to Tolstoy's "Childhood". Here's how he sketches his parents:"My father's people were true Welshmen, sentimental, passionate, and rhetorical, easily moved both to anger and to tenderness; men who laughed and cried a great deal and who had not much of the talent for happiness. The Hamiltons[his mother's family] were a cooler race. Their minds were critical and ironic and they had the talent for happiness in a high degree-went straight for it as experienced travelers go for the best seat in a train."
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