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12-11-2005, 12:32 AM | #1 |
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What is your favorite Narnia book?
The book I enjoyed most from the Chronicles was "The Horse and his Boy". What about the rest of you?
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12-11-2005, 12:44 AM | #2 |
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It was "Dawn Treader" for a LONG time; I could smell the sea and feel the movement of the ship ... and I loved the un-dragoning!
Horse & Boy is definitely one of my favorites - I love the part where Hwin meets Aslan.
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12-11-2005, 01:10 AM | #3 |
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HAHB was definitely a good story...but I also rather liked the feel of Caspian...just the idea of the underground Narnia was really neat.
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I loved the un-dragoning, too , but I think The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe will always be my favorite because it was my introduction to Narnia and there is the sense of despair (1. always winter but never Christmas, 2. Aslan's sacrifice) overcome by great joy. |
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Hmm... my faveorite one would be, I guess, The magisions nefue (I can't spell)
The start of naria and all that.
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12-11-2005, 06:51 PM | #8 |
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I haven't read all of them in years. In the past few days I've read LWW and Caspian, though, and so far I like Caspian better.
I don't think I liked the Magician's Nephew so much, but I can't recall why . Was that the one with the creation of something and the people getting lost in the attic and an Adam/Eve theme?
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I remember answering this question in another thread... but I guess I could do it again. My favorites are A Horse and His Boy and Voyage of the Dawn Treader. I love the moment when Shasta is walking alone in the mist through the night, and Aslan walks beside him. When morning comes he sees the lion footprint and realizes he was on a ledge with a steep dropoff and Aslan was walking between him and the edge. He realizes that Aslan had been there all during his journey but he'd never recognized him. After that my favorite moments are the "undragoning" of Eustace, as Rian called it, the Stone Table, and of course, Radagast getting turned into a donkey. When I first read his assurance that anyone can learn to wiggle their ears I was determined to learn how, and I have!
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12-12-2005, 11:55 AM | #10 |
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the magician's nephew... i always love the background-type stories
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I loved that part. It was more than my favorite, and it was what endeared the books to me. I like that scene and portrayal of a silently protecting being watching over you. I loved it.
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03-26-2006, 09:41 AM | #13 |
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I have just finished reading all of the Chronicles of Narnia.
It is difficult to decide which book is the best, since I think that each book has something that I like very much. If I had to choose, I think I would choose either The Dawn Treader or The Magician's Nephew.
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It's funny, I always thought that I'd be alone in liking the 3rd book, that doesn't fit into the entire sequence of "people from our world enter another world" thematics.
I'd just like to explain why I love The Horse and His Boy so much. For one thing, it's a lesson of humilty. Bree is such a boaster and thinks he is so much better than everyone else around him. And then Shasta out-trumps Bree by running back towards a lion that is about to fully pounce on Hwin and (what ever the girl's name was that I can't think of right now) and makes Bree completely miserable because he has finally realised that he isn't half as great as he thought he was. I also love that unlike the other books, it's not about a bunch of spoiled British school kids that have just had a tiny bit of bad luck. This kid, Shasta, honestly has nothing. His father beats him (does memoery serve me right here?) and he lives a little better than a slave. It's so much easier to feel much more sadness, pity, happiness and all other things that happens to a person when they have experienced very little in their life. And then when he finds out he really is a prince and will one day be king, he doesn't want to be. For the same reason I sometimes read TLTWATW and pretend that there are 5 kids. What happens then? Which one is humble and which one is self-righteous and just takes the throne without question? I also feel as thought Aslan cared more for Shasta than any other character whatsoever. Aslan says to Shasta how he has always been there for him, and been responsible for every (good) thing that has ever happened to him. (paraprhasing) "And I was the one who pushed the boat when you were just a baby to the man you come to knew as 'father' ". When I first read that passage of Aslan walking alongside Shasta in the fog (I was about 13) I couldn't help but get teary-eyed from it. I think it was the nicest thing that Aslan ever did for a character in the books. The Silver Chair is my second favourite, just because of the way that the whole mystery unfolds about Prince Rilian, the quest to find him, and how the four of them overcame the Green Lady/Serpent Witch. As someone else has already posted, how can you not love the speech of Puddleglum (paraphrased): "Even if Narnia were only ever a dream, I prefer the dream to this anyday!" Then I like TLTWATW third, with TMN fourth, purely based on the way that their storylines offer redemption to the characters Edmund and Digory respectively. Also, the way how Charn is described as such a desolate, dead and evil place is one of the best descriptions of the lair of evil I have ever read (also in TMN). |
07-12-2010, 01:19 PM | #15 |
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I've always liked the Silver Chair for some reason. The Horse and his boy was my second favorite.
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07-13-2010, 12:15 PM | #16 |
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My favorite? Well, I honestly don't have a favorite, because I really don't like the books. And I'm not saying that without having read them, I have read each twice!
(For more on that you can message me )
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07-15-2010, 04:34 AM | #17 |
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Why message? Put it out here for all to see- I'd be interested in hearing your PoV, and I'm sure others would, too.
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08-14-2010, 04:56 PM | #18 |
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PoV?
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I think he means Point of View.
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08-16-2010, 08:51 AM | #20 |
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Yes indeed, forgive the use of jargon. Again, though, I'm interested in your opinion- you would seem to be a natural fit for the Narnia stories.
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