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Mike D
  • Rated 4 stars

I chose this book because i read the first one, and plan to read the entire series. The four children from the first book, Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy, find themselves in Narnia once again. They do not return as royalty at once. In fact, they return on the island with the ruins of their once great castle. They learn of a war going on between the should-be-king, and his uncle, the current king, and decide the throne needs a rightful ruler. During transition in action, there are...

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Brianne
  • Rated 2 stars

This book was boring....I thought the first one was better. I know this is a children's book, but I expected more. The movie is out and I heard the movie is good (better than the first) so I hope the movie is much better than the book. I felt the whole time, the children were walking to Aslan's how, there wasn't really much action.

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  • Rated 4.375 stars
 

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  • j(

    j(",)y b said:

    in preparation for the coming film version.. (",)

    posted Wednesday, October 31 2007
  • LuvReading

    luvreading said:

    It seems to match up, but Wikipedia has become more and morea unacceptable as a research tool because anyone can change/add what they want. The teachers in the high school where I work will not even accept it as a valid research source.

    posted Saturday, March 31 2007
  • jsherry

    jsherry said:

    I posted this in the other thread, but here's what Wikipedia has:

    To make the case for his suggested order, Gresham quoted Lewis's reply to a letter from an American fan in 1957 who was having an argument with his mother about the order:

    “I think I agree with your order [i.e. chronological] for reading the books more than with your mother’s. The series was not planned beforehand as she thinks. When I wrote The Lion I did not know I was going to write any more. Then I wrote P. Caspian as a sequel and still didn't think there would be any more, and when I had done The Voyage I felt quite sure it would be the last. But I found as I was wrong. So perhaps it does not matter very much in which order anyone read them. I’m not even sure that all the others were written in the same order in which they were published.” (Dorsett & Mead 1996)

    Fans of the series who appreciate the original order believe that Lewis was only being polite to a child, and that he could have changed the order in his lifetime had he so desired (Brady 2005). They maintain that much of the magic of Narnia comes from the way in which the world is gradually presented in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. They believe that the mystery of the wardrobe is narratively a much better introduction than in The Magician's Nephew — where the word "Narnia" is the fortieth word in the book. Moreover, they say that it is clear from the texts themselves that The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe was intended to be the first book read, and that The Magician's Nephew was not. For instance, in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, when Aslan is first mentioned, the narrator states, "None of the children knew who Aslan was, any more than you do." Fans of the original order say that that statement is nonsensical if one has already read The Magician's Nephew. Other similar textual examples are also cited. This argument hinges partly on the claim that Chronology is not equivalent to Narrative (Rilstone 2004).

    posted Saturday, March 31 2007
  • thatfreakygirl

    thatfreakygirl said:

    I came across that site too (the second one), it presents the issues on both sides fairly. I admit however, that I will never come around to arguments in favour of the chronological order, it just doesn't make the same kinda sense to me.

    posted Sunday, February 18 2007
  • LuvReading

    luvreading said:

    I did some research. I found this story on many websites...and then reasons for reading in published order or chronological order. Among the best sites (I Googled "Narnia book order") was www.dummies.com and

    www.rilstone.talktalk.net/narnia.htm.

    Lewis's stepson is the one who recommended editors to change the order in 1994.
    Take a look at the website and tell me what you think.

    posted Friday, February 16 2007
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