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What is this mania to reach the end of the book?

by Louis Markos | posted 6/06/2005 12:00AM

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Louis Markos is a professor in English at Houston Baptist University. He is the author of Lewis Agonistes: How C.S. Lewis Can Train Us to Wrestle with the Modern and Postmodern World (Broadman & Holman, 2003). His website is fc.hbu.edu/~lmarkos.

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Louis Markos's website is available from Houston Baptist University.

For book lovers, see our book awards for 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, and 1997, as well as our Books of the Twentieth Century. For other coverage or reviews, see our Books archive and the weekly Books & Culture Corner.

Other Christianity Today articles by Markos include:

Poetry-Phobic | Why evangelicals should love language that is 'slippery.' (Oct. 11, 2001)

Myth Matters | C. S. Lewis bequeathed us a method and a language for sharing the gospel with the modern and postmodern world. (April 17, 2001)

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