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Reviews for As One Devil to Another by Richard Platt You’ll have a hell of a time... C. S. Lewis Scholar Walter Hooper compares Platt’s work to Lewis’s Screwtape Letters and the association is well deserve ... delicious use of the English language. Highly recommended - The Library Journal, Starred Review Richard Platt, writes with the same elegance, felicity and sarcastic wit that Lewis did seventy years ago. In addition, Platt reveals a theological sagacity and psychological acumen that almost matches Lewis' own. - Will Vaus Armed with thorough knowledge of Lewis' work and a deft, creative touch, Richard Platt uses keenly edged satire to slice through the sham in our human failings and posturing, and the form those take in modern culture. In the winsome tradition of The Screwtape Letters, this immensely entertaining and deeply instructive book uses irony to cast a positive vision of the truth about human destiny and potential... -Dr. Wayne Martindale, author of Beyond the Shadowlands; co-editor of The Quotable Lewis and The Soul of C. S. Lewis Most who come to As One Devil to Another, Richard Platt's homage to The Screwtape Letters, will already be devotees of C. S. Lewis. They will not be disappointed.... ventriloquism on behalf of devilry is not easy... Platt has been able to maintain a high standard ... forces us to ask those questions which, as individuals, we need always to ask... - A. T. Reyes, The Journal of Inklings Studies Working within the tradition that the master perfected, Richard Platt brings a signature all his own to the genre of diabolical correspondence: social satire and psychological incisiveness that are timely, timeless, and telling.- James Como, Founding Member of the New York C. S. Lewis Society and author of Why I Believe in Narnia: 33 Reviews & Essays on the Life Work of C. S. Lewis. A witty and amusing insight into the wiles of fallen angels. Most enjoyable. - Dr. Michael Ward, Chaplain at St. Peter's College, Oxford and author of The Narnia Code "Decades ago, C.S. Lewis's Screwtape Letters exposed the follies of his time, notably self-delusion and slick verbosity. For all his efforts, matters have only gotten worse. Now Richard Platt has taken up the probe and lancet, applying them to many of the boils on the modern body politic, and body academic. His source of information in the Lowerarchy enables him to tell us just how our minds are being poisoned, but like Lewis himself, he does so with a concern also for charity: the most annoying of our fellows may just be victims of the muddled thinking pressed on them by Screwtape's diabolic successors. The switch at the end is in the Lewis tradition of fierce humor." ~ Tom Shippey, Author of J. R. R. Tolkien: Author of the Century, formerly Professor of Anglo-Saxon, Oxford University