Chronicles of Narnia - POLL

Former Catholic, same, though Aslan was never gentler than in this book. Lewis at his best writing those Aslan speeches about Jadis, the tree/fruit, and suffering.

also, fuck this inheritance ending. These people are always finding old bank stock notes in the attic or inheriting some great uncle's fortune.

― Enumerated funks of Walsh, Joe. (Sufjan Grafton), Saturday, 10 June 2023 17:33 (four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

yes but this was prob p true for the likes of c s lewis et al tbf

we recently finished The Horse and His Boy, yes it is still my favourite, have to say my son didn't care for it at all though. I think there are maybe too many passages of dialogue, and using impenetrable old-fashioned language too, though I still enjoyed those. think the runaway kid adventure is a genre I generally love, and Tashbaan reminded me of Mont St Michel (I went there when I was 10 and read the book later the same year) - it just seems to have more possibilities outside the text than the other books in the series, a world barely glimpsed.

I did remember fondly the last paragraph - "..years later, when they were grown up, they were so used to quarrelling and making it up again that they got married so as to go on doing it more conveniently..." - but if I'm going to be honest there wasn't a lot of quarrelling and making up in the book, so maybe CS could have spent a bit more time on that and a little less on the heavy-handed parable stuff, idk.

yeah it is a bit racist too.

it just seems to have more possibilities outside the text than the other books in the series, a world barely glimpsed.

otm -- and why I love ....The Dawn Treader too.

Interesting: https://www.tor.com/2021/05/12/the-problems-of-susan/

Not totally sure about the fanfic, but I do appreciate the wider delve.

all critical activity is fanfic

Where is your Middle-earth novel

it's behind you

*ducks*

I just

Lol

Just finished Prince Caspian. It was interesting in that for 60% of the book it was just the four kids (& one dwarf) walking for ages and getting lost. By interesting I mean dull. Why didn't they trust Lucy when she saw she said Aslan? I mean people being irrational and wasting time doing nothing is at least realistic, so let's credit Jack for that at least. The action sequences are quite harsh, lots of death, but all seem to be crammed into a few chapters. And after getting to know Prince Caspian we basically just abandon him until he puts in a couple of cameos at the end. Easily the worst so far I'm afraid.

Why didn't they trust Lucy when she saw she said Aslan?

Why would they? They're out of practice, only one visit.

The next book is much better.

I do kind of appreciate that, despite all of their experiences, Peter and Susan are already growing up to be pompous English prigs, because of course they are. Typical British colonialists.

lucy is very tiresome! she is a suck-up and i hate her!

(she does have a good extended scene in the next book -- if it's dawn treader -- but it's the scene that's good not her)

aslan is being such a dick in the lost-in-the-woods section

isn't Scrubb the suck-up?

scrubb constantly says they're all mad idiots who are trying to kill him!

he is not aslan-pilled

I’m at the beginning stages of a fiction thing and have already introduced a character named “Aslan”.

Also, still don't know why anyone is supposed to give a fuck about the Bulgy Bears, or what they are doing in this book.

lol you're cranky

One of the Bulgy Bears sticks his paw in his mouth in the lists, greatly offending Peter. That's the only purpose they serve.

i mean they are definitely another dreary digression in an overlong book but they are there to be the talking bears which DON'T eat children bcz "old narnia" is nice (twee) but can also front some troops which might give the telmarines pause once nikabrik's alternative is decisively squashed ("light the blue fire!" = best scene)

blue fires are pretty

I love fantasy books where people walk for ages (and maybe get lost). The best bits of Lord of the Rings are them walking.

CS introduces them like "here are some great new comic characters, lads you're going to love their hilarious antics" and then in several mentions it's just a paw in a mouth, which to be perfectly frank is not going to make much difference to people who have never encountered a talking bear before.

xp lots of my favourite things scenes in things are nothing happening on the surface, but all the time we're finding out about the characters. this is not the case here, everyone just acts like pricks.

like britishes

to be perfectly frank is not going to make much difference to people who have never encountered a talking bear before.

the last bear I talked to had hella attitude and wouldn't even bottom idk

a lot of it is wild shit given this guy is meant to be some kind of xtian: like unleashing bacchus and silenus and getting them to coax schoolgirls into taking half their clothes off

now that's the part of the novel where things get unwieldy

yeah the tree orgies were odd

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Prince Caspian is better than the Silver Chair, which is irritating and not very good

tbf Tom Baker is in The Silver Chair. Probably not in the book though.

Prince Caspian is better than the Silver Chair, which is irritating and not very good

― the absence of bikes (f. hazel), T

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i really like silver chair: puddleglum is a good character to have in a kid's book i think

anything would be a letdown after Dawn Treader though

dawn treader has too much aslan in it

courage, dear heart

the Emerald Witch plucking at her koto surrounded by clouds of incense = so metal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wh55SzhLkmc

hoping there’s a metal band called bism

also mudfilth

I love fantasy books where people walk for ages (and maybe get lost). The best bits of Lord of the Rings are them walking.

Prince Caspian is better than the Silver Chair, which is irritating and not very good

― the absence of bikes (f. hazel), T

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This is 90% of why Fellowship is the best. It’s basically a travelogue of a long walk without a ton of other plot going on.

― The land of dreams and endless remorse (hardcore dilettante),

*cough* The Silver Chair: the trek through Ettinsmoor, etc.

in the silver chair it bothered me all out of proportion that scrubb didn't get to say hi to the elderly caspian

also: repectabiggle