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Agreed. His works remain some of the greatest and most inspiring ever written.
An amazing mind who wrote brilliant philosophy, theology, classical studies, poetry, science fiction, memoirs and the wonderful Narnia saga. 
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C. S. Lewis has been a constant inspiration to me.
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Amazing, how so much he was influenced by his friend, J.R.R.Tolkien, who even helped convert Lewis to Catholicism over a long night.
Loved Lewis's books when I first read them, grew up when the Narnia series first appeared, still have first editions of some of them, purchased when they came out.
It was only later that I realized how much of Lewis's writing consisted of his "versions" of the work of his friends. Narnia derives from Middle-Earth. "That Hideous Strength" is a stylistic copy of the work of Charles Williams, a wonderful writer of quirky fantasy novels, centered in a very strong spirituality.
But the best book, by far, IMHO, is Lewis's "'Til We Have Faces," a re-telling of the Cupid and Psyche myth, with a sometimes startling viewpoint. Challenging, moving, memorable. I cherish my first edition.
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Thank you for bringing this book to my attention, Joe E.
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