Jacobs, Alan

Introduction -- People, thinking -- Attractions -- Repulsions -- The money of fools -- The age of lumping -- Open and shut -- A person, thinking -- Conclusion: the pleasures and dangers of thinking -- Afterword: the thinking person's checklist.

Presents a biography of writer and religious philosopher C. S. Lewis, providing information on his childhood in Ireland, his literary influences, and his achievements in philosophy, theology, and fiction.

Known for his popular series, The Chronicles of Narnia, this biography of C. S. Lewis profiles his life through his mind, which embraced and questioned life with equal parts pain and zeal, and led him to express these thoughts through his writing.

The author offers advice for aspiring readers, emphasizing his point that readers should gravitate toward whatever pulls their interest, whether it be novels by Stephen King or the King James Version of the Bible, and read without shame for their preferences, and discusses silent reading, the pleasures of rereading, electronic reading, and other related topics.