Mere Christianity vs The Accidental: Which Should You Read?

Mere Christianity C. S. Lewis · 1943 ★★★★☆ 4.4 141 pages · ≈ 2 h 37 m · Challenging

“I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: ‘I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God.’ That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on the level with the man who says”

First broadcast as informal radio "talks" and later published as three separate books, The Case for Christianity, Christian Behaviour, and Beyond Personality are presented together in Mere Christianity. In his…

The Accidental Ali Smith · 2005 ★★★☆☆ 3.4 312 pages · ≈ 5 h 47 m · Moderate

“The beginning of things -- when is it exactly?”

The Accidental is a 2005 novel by Scottish author Ali Smith. It follows a middle-class English family who are visited by an uninvited guest, Amber, while they are on holiday in a small village in Norfolk. Amber's…