Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold, by C. S. Lewis, is so far my favourite non-parable fiction by Lewis.#

A cute quote:#

"Orual," she said, "you make me think I have learned the Fox's lessons better than you. Have you forgotten what we are to say to ourselves every morning? 'Today I shall meet cruel men, cowards and liars, the envious and the drunken. They will be like that because they do not know what is good from what is bad. This is an evil which has fallen upon them not upon me. They are to be pitied, not---'." She was speaking with a loving mimicry of the Fox's voice; she could do this as well as Batta did it badly.

Dune, by Frank Herbert, is an intense book. Perhaps the first science-fiction book I have enjoyed in a very long time. The author did a fabulous job of creating a believable and consistent world.#

An interesting quote:#

"Grave this on your memory, lad: A world is supported by four things..." She held up four big-knuckled fingers. "...the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the righteous and the valor of the grave. But all of these are as nothing..." She closed her fingers into a fist. "...without a ruler who knows the art of ruling. Make that the science of your tradition!"