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)
― mark s, Thursday, 26 October 2023 17:09 (eleven months ago) link
aslan is being such a dick in the lost-in-the-woods section
― mark s, Thursday, 26 October 2023 17:10 (eleven months ago) link
isn't Scrubb the suck-up?
― hat trick of trashiness (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 26 October 2023 17:16 (eleven months ago) link
scrubb constantly says they're all mad idiots who are trying to kill him!
― mark s, Thursday, 26 October 2023 17:23 (eleven months ago) link
he is not aslan-pilled
― mark s, Thursday, 26 October 2023 17:24 (eleven months ago) link
I’m at the beginning stages of a fiction thing and have already introduced a character named “Aslan”.
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 26 October 2023 17:24 (eleven months ago) link
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.
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 26 October 2023 17:49 (eleven months ago) link
lol you're cranky
― hat trick of trashiness (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 26 October 2023 17:50 (eleven months ago) link
One of the Bulgy Bears sticks his paw in his mouth in the lists, greatly offending Peter. That's the only purpose they serve.
― hat trick of trashiness (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 26 October 2023 17:51 (eleven months ago) link
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)
― mark s, Thursday, 26 October 2023 17:54 (eleven months ago) link
blue fires are pretty
― hat trick of trashiness (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 26 October 2023 18:01 (eleven months ago) link
I love fantasy books where people walk for ages (and maybe get lost). The best bits of Lord of the Rings are them walking.
― trishyb, Thursday, 26 October 2023 18:02 (eleven months ago) link
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.
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 26 October 2023 18:02 (eleven months ago) link
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.
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 26 October 2023 18:05 (eleven months ago) link
like britishes
― hat trick of trashiness (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 26 October 2023 18:07 (eleven months ago) link
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
― mark s, Thursday, 26 October 2023 18:08 (eleven months ago) link
now that's the part of the novel where things get unwieldy
― hat trick of trashiness (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 26 October 2023 18:09 (eleven months ago) link
yeah the tree orgies were odd
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 26 October 2023 18:20 (eleven months ago) link
hot entwives in your area
― mark s, Thursday, 26 October 2023 18:21 (eleven months ago) link
Prince Caspian is better than the Silver Chair, which is irritating and not very good
― the absence of bikes (f. hazel), Thursday, 26 October 2023 18:26 (eleven months ago) link
tbf Tom Baker is in The Silver Chair. Probably not in the book though.
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 26 October 2023 18:27 (eleven months ago) link
― the absence of bikes (f. hazel), T
respectowiggle
― hat trick of trashiness (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 26 October 2023 18:31 (eleven months ago) link
i really like silver chair: puddleglum is a good character to have in a kid's book i think
― mark s, Thursday, 26 October 2023 18:34 (eleven months ago) link
anything would be a letdown after Dawn Treader though
― the absence of bikes (f. hazel), Thursday, 26 October 2023 18:35 (eleven months ago) link
dawn treader has too much aslan in it
― mark s, Thursday, 26 October 2023 18:36 (eleven months ago) link
courage, dear heart
― hat trick of trashiness (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 26 October 2023 18:53 (eleven months ago) link
the Emerald Witch plucking at her koto surrounded by clouds of incense = so metal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wh55SzhLkmc
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 26 October 2023 18:56 (eleven months ago) link
hoping there’s a metal band called bism
― mookieproof, Thursday, 26 October 2023 18:56 (eleven months ago) link
also mudfilth
― mark s, Thursday, 26 October 2023 19:07 (eleven months ago) link
― The land of dreams and endless remorse (hardcore dilettante), Thursday, 26 October 2023 23:53 (eleven months ago) link
Prince Caspian is better than the Silver Chair, which is irritating and not very good― the absence of bikes (f. hazel), Trespectowiggle
― The land of dreams and endless remorse (hardcore dilettante), Thursday, 26 October 2023 23:54 (eleven months ago) link
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.
― hat trick of trashiness (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 26 October 2023 23:59 (eleven months ago) link
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
― mookieproof, Friday, 27 October 2023 00:02 (eleven months ago) link
amidst all the bad takes in this revive, and they're not few, the idea that fotr lacks plot is a real doozy
we have a good thread where we do in fairness surmise that it is a book about walking in the main so points for that
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Friday, 27 October 2023 01:22 (eleven months ago) link
mark otm about why not listen to lucy, the portrayal of the character in the british tv tltwatw in the nineties was shockingly annoying and very accurate
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Friday, 27 October 2023 01:23 (eleven months ago) link
we just finished the horse and his boy. Aslan saved the boy so the Aslantians would win the war years later. Main kid(s) always become rich at the end, in one world or another.
― Natural Wine • Danny Devito • Virginia (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 27 October 2023 02:27 (eleven months ago) link
the bolt of Tash falls from above
― mookieproof, Wednesday, August 3, 2011 9:56 PM (twelve years ago)
the bolt of tash falls from above
― mookieproof, Wednesday, February 1, 2023 3:56 AM (eight months ago)
sorry for duplication, but i just wanted to point out that i was otm
― mookieproof, Friday, 27 October 2023 05:37 (eleven months ago) link
"Lack" implies it's the worse for it, though.
Silver Chair and Dawntreader are my absolute favourites. It makes me a little sad that KIDS TODAY don't read these books. I loved them so much. I still do. I don't care if CS Lewis was trying to indoctrinate me into Christianity by stealth. It's not like he did a very good job of it.
― trishyb, Friday, 27 October 2023 08:10 (eleven months ago) link
. It makes me a little sad that KIDS TODAY don't read these books.
They don't?
Cobbles and kettledrums!
― hat trick of trashiness (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 27 October 2023 09:28 (eleven months ago) link
― mojo dojo casas house (gyac), Friday, 27 October 2023 09:50 (eleven months ago) link
I might be extrapolating a bit from my own experience, but no, none of the younger readers in my orbit have ever mentioned the Narnia books. My sister-in-law, bless her, tried to get my niece interested in TLTWATW for my sake when she was the right age, but no, absolutely no interest. Which suggests to me that they're not on the radar of kids that age at all.
― trishyb, Friday, 27 October 2023 09:54 (eleven months ago) link
last battle is next and my son is psyched “because all the OGs will be there”
― mojo dojo casas house (gyac), Friday, 27 October 2023 09:55 (eleven months ago) link
Come further up, come further in!
― hat trick of trashiness (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 27 October 2023 09:57 (eleven months ago) link
the Narnia boxed set is sold at Costco next to the Dogman and Wimpy Kids, so I'd guess they are still popular in the US.
― Natural Wine • Danny Devito • Virginia (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 27 October 2023 12:34 (eleven months ago) link
I like Shasta (his highness, Corn) and Aravis in A Horse and His Boy more than the other kids. They risked more to earn their happy outcomes. I like Aslan the war-fixer less. Aslan is coolest when a mysterious and intimidating creator in Magician's nephew. He is always showing up in Horse Boy, scratching little kids. It feels like Narnia's own "when there was one set of footprints, that's when Aslan carried you".
― Natural Wine • Danny Devito • Virginia (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 27 October 2023 12:48 (eleven months ago) link
the godly manifestation of corporal punishment
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Friday, 27 October 2023 12:50 (eleven months ago) link
― hat trick of trashiness (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 27 October 2023 12:56 (eleven months ago) link
Aslan's constant meddling is a very pagan sort of behavior for a deity, I think Lewis ultimately wrote these books because he wanted kids to abandon Christianity when Jesus failed to get involved in their lives in any obvious way. Take up with ancient Greek gods, he is saying, there's fauns and talking animals and the gods are all up in your business all the time.
― the absence of bikes (f. hazel), Friday, 27 October 2023 14:19 (eleven months ago) link