The Chronicles of Narnia

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I watched this over the weekend and my GF and I both hated the movie. I fell asleep about 45 minutes into the video. The end was pretty good once the fighting started but dang the rest of the movie is soo boring. I have a great imagination but just couldnt find any interrest in this movie at all. Wish I would have never paid to see it in the theater. We almost walked out and I heard at least another handful of people in the theater complaining about it. 👎
 
Hi guys wonder if I could have your opinions please, Its not about the movie, its about the books. I was wondering what order I should read them seeing as Ive just got them (all) and I was wondering in which order I should read them.

order of the books as published.

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
Prince Caspian
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
The Silver Chair
The Horse and His Boy
The Magician's Nephew
The Last Battle

order of the books chronologicaly

The Magician's Nephew
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
The Horse and His Boy
Prince Caspian
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
The Silver Chair
The Last Battle

I want them to be good, but I dont want stuff to be given away before i get to it in another book, any sugestions from you.

Sorry this isnt a film question, but I thought rarther here than a new thread.
 
I'm no expert, but I think reading them chronologically makes the most sense. I don't know what happens in the books following The Horse And His Boy though...
 
Anderton Prime
I'm no expert, but I think reading them chronologically makes the most sense. I don't know what happens in the books following The Horse And His Boy though...
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Thanks for your input Anderton, much apreciated 👍 Ive just been given all the books and I dont want to spoil them.
 
Definitely Chronologically as there is a storyline running throughout the septology, though the writing style changes a bit as Clive's audience matured.

You should read them non-stop for maximum effect!;)
 
DeLoreanBrown
Definitely Chronologically as there is a storyline running throughout the septology, though the writing style changes a bit as Clive's audience matured.

You should read them non-stop for maximum effect!;)
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Thats what I plan to do, cheers for the input 👍 I think I will now read them in Chronological order having read the two posts here and also various other bits of info around the net. Im going to get started tonight, I may even get 1 book per night done just depends of the books themselves.


[edit #1 book The Magician's Nephew]

I finished the first book "The Magician's Nephew" last night, I started at about 7:30pm and finished it around 11:30pm, and I have to say I wasn't impressed, by either the story or the wrighting style, the way C.S. Lewis discribes stuff in the book is poor and limited (even Rowling got that bit top notch in the HP books), also I found the characters a little dull and lifeless including Aslan.

But im going to read "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe" tonight and see if this fairs better, and see how the story lives up to the hype.
 
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For me The voyage of the dawn treader and the final two books are the better for writing style. You have to read them before you're twelve though for a magical impact.
 
DeLoreanBrown
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For me The voyage of the dawn treader and the final two books are the better for writing style. You have to read them before you're twelve though for a magical impact.
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yeh you could be correct about that, but (this is going to get me burnt) I actually loved the Harry Potter books and I love nearly all of the Terry Pratchett books and I think they have some sort of impact that makes me feel childish :D but Im not going to give up on C S Lewis that easily so who knows maybe I will like the others more. Once ive done these Im on to the big boys books Lord Of The Rings and the Hobbit, should be great books.
 
I read through the books not long ago. Most are nothing worthwhile, though overall a bit more enjoyable than The Lord of the Rings trilogy, if only for the greater simplicity. My main concern with the series is the implicit tone, which I believe borders on bigotted, and it's no stretch to see Archenland as a kind of Israel in the context of the Horse and His Boy, which is sure to spark controversy. Overall, the best story is The Horse and His Boy, if for nothing else than it's dialogue quality and lesser amount of downtalking. When you aren't 7, the analogies become monotonous, as do the frequent mentions of Aslan's beauty. A few of the books come close to The Horse and His Boy, maybe 3 overall, but most of them don't live upto it.

I have to disagree with high marks for The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. While it had its moments, and Eustace as a character was easy to loathe, I thought it read more like grab bag of mini preschooler fantasies which were ultimately anticlimactic. It was too much in a short story.
 
Ok I got through "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe" last night although I was going to leave a bit till later today, but managed to finish it at about 12:20midnight.

It was a better book than the first book, but still had that lazy and rarther dull wrighting style, you can definatly tell that these were wrote for a 9 Year old back in the day, but apart from this the character development was ok I guess but for only a handfull of charecters, like MR. and MRS. Beaver, they are more well rounded and fleshed out than Susan was, Aslan was a little better too, but still not as majestic as I would have hoped, and also the kissing and other refrences to affections in this book made me feel a little un-easy but I put this down to the time it was written too.

All-in-all an ok book, but I dont think I will read it again. maybe when I got kids.

Next book tonight.
 
Hmm. Just got through watching this on DVD. Hmm.


Now I quite like the books which, given that they are a very, very thinly veiled clone of the New Testament but with speaking animals, might come as a bit of a surprise, but they're good, honest kid's books without the self-absorbed plagiarism you might find in other Potters. I mean series.


Plus: The film seems to be a pretty faithful adaptation of the book.
Minus: This meant that I forgot who Susan was (again) for a considerable period.
Plus: Good voice talent.
Minus: Dreadful acting talent.
Plus: I'm all out now. Anyone?
Minus: I'm not sure whether it's just the DVD, or the fact it's on a smaller screen, but the fact that everything, and I mean everything, was green-screened, was painfully apparent. Everything real that moved left a halo of green and purple behind it - the scene in the camp with just Edmund and Peter on the screen (where Peter learns he has to lead the army) is intolerably bad, and all it consists of is two kids and some scenic background - there's no need to green-screen anything at all there.


All-in-all, it trots along, sticking quite close (by Hollywood standards) to the books. The "subtle hints" from Professor Diggory make no sense to C.S. Lewis newbies - but I suspect the studio knew that TLTWTW is the big-hitter of the series and will do The Magician's Nephew later on. Prince Caspian is, confusingly, next (but The Horse and his Boy is pretty much a standalone so again wouldn't suck in the cinema-goers).
 

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