Just finished reading The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe to Winter. Life goal #22: complete.
Next up: Prince Caspian, because the books should be read in published order not chronological order. In my extraordinarily humble opinion.
UPDATE
Haha. Glamma informs me that the reading order for the Narnia series is actually a highly contentious issue that has been debated on the Internet at great length. I shouldn't be surprised—I've been on the Internet long enough to know that almost every issue has been debated at great length thereon—but still, I am. I mean, I can't see how anyone could argue in favour of reading them chronologically—at least, no one who'd actually read the books. To start with the Magican's Nephew is to totally undermine, ruin even, the whole story of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, and to diffuse it of its magic. Maybe you could argue for some other non-publishing order, but never chronological.
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CS Lewis would disagree, according to the obscenely out-of-context quotation the publisher has inserted in the collected edition.
ReplyDeleteYou're right! I just checked my collected edition and it does say the order follows "Lewis's recommend order of reading." (Not that I doubted you.) Oh well, Clive Staples, on this we disagree. And I note that the Chronicle filmmakers disagree as well, defying Lewis' dying wish (that's when he made the recommendation, wasn't it?) and—so far, at least—going with the published order. For shame.
ReplyDeleteOf course, the correct order for the title should have been: The Wardrobe, the Witch and the Lion.. based on order of appearance.
ReplyDeleteCK, that's the view held by those splitters: the People's Chronological Front of Narnia!
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