Krug
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http://www.narniafans.com/index.php?subaction=showfull&id=1087257702&archive=&start_from=&ucat=1&
Hmm don't they remind u of box art from the D&D Miniatures?
Hmm don't they remind u of box art from the D&D Miniatures?
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Cthulhu's Librarian
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cool! Thanks for the link, I didn't know about that site.
Bass Puppet
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Hey thanks C.L.
Question, I'm anticipating the Narnia movies and I'm gonna pick up a couple of the books at the local used book store. I was wondering which book to start off with and I remember there was a thread that discussed this. Can someone recommend a book or direct me to the thread.
Thank you in advance.
Question, I'm anticipating the Narnia movies and I'm gonna pick up a couple of the books at the local used book store. I was wondering which book to start off with and I remember there was a thread that discussed this. Can someone recommend a book or direct me to the thread.
Thank you in advance.
EricNoah
Adventurer
Despite the chronological order of the series as it is published nowadays, one should start with "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" as the true "first book" of the series -- it is the real introduction to Narnia and assumes the reader knows nothing.
The "first" book chronologically, "The Magician's Nephew," is really designed for someone who already knows some of Narnia's history but provides several "ah-ha" moments for those who think they know a lot, and thus really should be read later in the series. In my opinion of course.
The "first" book chronologically, "The Magician's Nephew," is really designed for someone who already knows some of Narnia's history but provides several "ah-ha" moments for those who think they know a lot, and thus really should be read later in the series. In my opinion of course.
Hypersmurf
Moderatarrrrh...
EricNoah said:In my opinion of course.
It's a good opinion
Last time I read Narnia aloud to someone, I started with Lion, and skipped A Horse and his Boy. I intended to come back to Nephew after The Last Battle, but we never got around to it...
-Hyp.
Kid Charlemagne
I am the Very Model of a Modern Moderator
I would read them in order of publication. They make sense in that order, and then the last several kind of fill in the places in between, if you will.
Fieari
Explorer
Order of publication:
The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe
Prince Caspian
Voyage of the Dawn Treader
The Silver Chair
A Horse and His Boy
The Magician's Nephew
The Last Battle
The above is the order you should read them in. They were written to be read in that order. Older boxed sets come in this order, but pity enough, newer publishers go in chronilogical order, namely:
The Magician's Nephew
The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe
A Horse and His Boy
Prince Caspian
Voyage of the Dawn Treader
The Silver Chair
The Last Battle
Which is silly. First of all, the magician's nephew is a TERRIBLE introduction to the series. It's a great book, and one of my favorites, but starting there is silly. Really silly. Not only that, but it gives SPOILERS as to what happens in later (earlier) books. I mean, what good is a big surprise that things were prophesized a certain way when you already knew the prophesy? What good is a mystery involving a certain person's ancestry when you already know the answer? What good is characters making speclations about the past, about great shocking surprising revelations, when you've already been told? The order is there for a reason!
Beyond that, putting a Horse and His Boy directly after The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe is also silly, because they don't flow into each other at all... they'd have to put A Horse and His Boy IN THE MIDDLE of The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe to have it make any sense. The end of the first book goes straight into the beginning of the next, as is right and good. A Horse and His Boy is a FLASHBACK, a story written as a story... it's mentioned that in Caspian's time, a Horse and His Boy is told as a story then. In fine arabian storytelling format, the book is then made to tell the story that was told in the story which is actally history. That's how it's written, and it's written WELL.
Do yourself a favor: Read the books like they were meant to be read. The right way.
The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe
Prince Caspian
Voyage of the Dawn Treader
The Silver Chair
A Horse and His Boy
The Magician's Nephew
The Last Battle
The above is the order you should read them in. They were written to be read in that order. Older boxed sets come in this order, but pity enough, newer publishers go in chronilogical order, namely:
The Magician's Nephew
The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe
A Horse and His Boy
Prince Caspian
Voyage of the Dawn Treader
The Silver Chair
The Last Battle
Which is silly. First of all, the magician's nephew is a TERRIBLE introduction to the series. It's a great book, and one of my favorites, but starting there is silly. Really silly. Not only that, but it gives SPOILERS as to what happens in later (earlier) books. I mean, what good is a big surprise that things were prophesized a certain way when you already knew the prophesy? What good is a mystery involving a certain person's ancestry when you already know the answer? What good is characters making speclations about the past, about great shocking surprising revelations, when you've already been told? The order is there for a reason!
Beyond that, putting a Horse and His Boy directly after The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe is also silly, because they don't flow into each other at all... they'd have to put A Horse and His Boy IN THE MIDDLE of The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe to have it make any sense. The end of the first book goes straight into the beginning of the next, as is right and good. A Horse and His Boy is a FLASHBACK, a story written as a story... it's mentioned that in Caspian's time, a Horse and His Boy is told as a story then. In fine arabian storytelling format, the book is then made to tell the story that was told in the story which is actally history. That's how it's written, and it's written WELL.
Do yourself a favor: Read the books like they were meant to be read. The right way.
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Hypersmurf
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mmadsen said:
It always felt 'tacked-on' to the main arc.
I wanted the continuity of the visitors-from-Earth stories, so I skipped the one-of-these-things-that's-not-like-the-others.
And I'd do it again, too!
-Hyp.
