having finished A Horse and His Boy awhile ago, it took me awhile but i think i figured out an analogy:



okay, maybe that's a little loose, but i definitely see it as a tentative connection.

What was your favorite Narnia book?

I am re-reading these books for the first time since I was a teenager. My favorite as a child was The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. Now I see that it's a warm, sunny, happy story, and things keep getting better right up to the end. Just the thing for my depression.

Mrs Danger says that her favorite was The Silver Chair. I'm reading it right now, and it's relentlessly grim. The characters argue all the time, they're sleeping on stoney ground in the winter, and they keep screwing up the prophesy. Mrs Danger says that she liked it because of the grimness, and it spoke to her when she was depressed. The Silver Chair was next to the bottom of my list, only above The Last Battle.

I've been rereading the series for the first time in many years too, basically just catching a chapter here and there when I have time, I'm currently about halfway done with The Silver Chair, only 1 more to go after, such nice and easy, fun reads.

I haven't read the books since I was in 6th grade. However I read the entire series twice but the Voyage of the Dawn Treader probably 5 times. I loved that book but can't really remember anything about it.

I like the one where Susan says she doesn't believe in Aslan anymore and he chews her in half and spits her out.

In the 3+ years since I posted this, I have since read them all. Excellent series, and I wish I had read them as a kid too. My favorite is definitely TLTWaTW.

I too read these for the first time recently, and thought it was a wonderful series of books. I had no problem with the christian symbolism, as I felt it was incidental to the world of narnia. I can't wait for the movie, and will have to try to catch the bbc adaptation when it is next aired.

I also recomend the origional published order for reading the series.
The movie trailer for Tltwatw was on tv the other day. It looks awsome, the release date for the film is this December.

I see they are now producing Prince Caspian for the next Narnia movie, suggesting that the movie producers are going in the original order of the books, which I find very pleasing, as I strongly feel the books should be enjoyed in their original order. (But I suppose it's like Star Wars and the discussion of what order to watch the movies in now that all the movies are out...the debate will never end).

So my book related question is do you think the restored order of the stores for the movies will make putting the books in their original order again more popular? I am disappointed that no publishers today are putting these books out in their original order.

I haven't read them all(just reread TLW&W & Caspian) since I was little, but from what I have read since the Magician's Nephew was written 6th it references the 5 books before it which means it renders those references completely dead reading it first.

I'm glad they are going with the original order as well. Makes more sense with the child actors since they are in Caspian which takes place a year after TLW&W.