Comments on: This week in books

By: desdinasi.livejournal.com

desdinasi.livejournal.com — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 09:39:44 +0000

sorry for the random question, i stumbled onto your page while trying to google dwj\’s house of many ways.
i\’ve been trying to get it for so long, and tried going to klcc/calling kinokuniya and they said that the book wasnt in stock :(

but you said you have got it? ah so strange =(

By: Julie

Julie — Sun, 18 May 2008 15:20:59 +0000

Very interesting! I read them in the order of publication and even though I know it was Lewis’s wish to have them republished in chronological order I always thought it was a terrible idea. I loved the way the history of Narnia unfolded gradually through the books and it never felt wrong or out of order to have the beginning of the world in book 6. And to go back in book 5 to revisit the “Golden Age” of Narnia, with a cameo appearance by the Pevensies, whom you thought you’d never meet again, is such a pleasant surprise.

By: Yati

Yati — Sun, 18 May 2008 13:55:57 +0000

:D To each her own, I suppose.

I think it’s partly because I read it in its “chronological” order, ie right after The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe instead of the published order. I probably would have had more patience with Bree and the horse* if I had known Narnia better! It’s the same reason, I think, why I’m not terribly fond of The Magician’s Nephew as well.

The movie took some, uh, liberties when it comes to certain elements of the plot, but I think it’s stronger than the first one. I hope you’ll have a good time watching it. :)

* [edit] Whoops, I meant the boy.

By: Julie

Julie — Sun, 18 May 2008 12:55:44 +0000

What??? You didn’t like The Horse and His Boy??? I loved that one! I think about it whenever I’m too tired to do something — I think of the scene where Bree thinks he’s too tired to run any faster, until he hears lions roaring behind him. :-P My least favorite book was The Last Battle and my second least is Prince Caspian, though I am looking forward to seeing the movie.