read the Chronicles of Narnia

Too much death for me. Especially at the end!

I liked this one well enough. There were a few things I did like, for example the Black Knight and “his Lady,” and who they turned out to be (predictable but I still liked it). I like Puddleglum, he was humourous. Still wasn’t my favourite (that would still have to be A Horse and His Boy). Anyway, enjoyable enough. Took me a long time to read it though.

By far my favorite so far! Very cute. I loved Bree!
“Anyone I catch talking about this young lady will be first beaten to death and then burned alive and after that be kept on bread and water for six weeks.”

I liked this one best so far. It was neat to read about all the different things on different lands in – I guess it’s not Narnia at this point, if they named it I missed it – anyway… neat! I liked the Dufferins the best. Very humourous. I very much like Reepicheep. He’d be my favorite character. I’m a little (although not that much) surprised to find that Prince Caspian was a bit arrogant but I guess I can forgive him or something.

Has anyone notice how obsessed C.S. Lewis is with food? Every chapter it seems mentions breakfast or lunch or hunger or whatever. I suppose it’s a fun thing to write about but I noticed quite a bit more in this book than the last.

This one took me longer to read. It didn’t have as much humour as the first one and I suppose that’s to be expected with all the family drama and whatnot. There was a lot I didn’t remember considering it was read to me as a child.

This one took me four days to read. I liked the humour in it. I can’t really compare it to other books yet and comparing the humour in this to the movies isn’t really fair either but I must say that I really liked the interaction with the talking animals of Narnia and Uncle Andrew. I don’t know if they’ll make a movie of this one but you could really play that part up and it would be really funny. I can see this as the youngest book since there are no battles or anything and there are lessons and stuff, in the narration anyway – like don’t steal and whatnot.

I’m sure it was the movies that kind of pushed me to want to read the books – they reminded me of them anyway – but I think that if it weren’t for my dad reading them to my sister and I when we were children, I probably wouldn’t have had any desire to. I don’t think he read all of them to us but a few for sure. He also read to us other CS Lewis books, JRR Tolkien, George McDonald and even some Ray Bradbury.
Funny, I don’t remember him reading us many picture books.