ReviewI may rate this higher if I read it again, as I think it is a book that will hit you at different places, in different times of your life. The premise if very clever, and the writing is, as ever from CS Lewis, amazing. Maybe too amazing, as sometimes I had a hard time following it. Probably because it was written in a time when people were smarter than I. (Ha, that was a grammatical joke, by the way, sort of).
Anywho, Uncle Screwtape writes to his nephew Wormwood how to convince a young nameless man how to, at first, ignore God, then how to minimize the effects of converting to Christianity, and then finally, how to change from devotion to judgmentalism. Of course there is far more than my piddly summary, but it does make one think.
Here's the funny part. I was reading the reviews of other people, and the divide is very strong. Those who are Christians adore the book. Makes sense, as it is akin to getting the blueprints to the Deathstar. But those who were just blah or hated the book had tags that did not seem to indicate any sort of Christianity. So here's my ultimate recommendation: this book is meant for Christians, or those who really like satire (it's their life long passion).