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3.74 AVERAGE
3.74 AVERAGE
adventurous
challenging
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Challenging, inspiring and just beautiful.
پایانشو خیلی دوست داشتم.
و دلم برای فضای ساده ی داستان واقعا تنگ می شه. :(
و دلم برای فضای ساده ی داستان واقعا تنگ می شه. :(
adventurous
fast-paced
My least favorite of the series. I understand that it is supposed to represent the Last Days, but it does so poorly. If I have to hear "but he's not a tame lion" one more time, I'm going to scream.
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
emotional
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Yeah, not a good foot to have ended this series on.
Probably my least favorite of the novels for a number of reasons:
First point: The tone of this one is strangely dark - Early in the novel the king of Narnia, who is not yet 25, remarks to his unicorn bff " If we had died before today, we should have been happy" to which the unicorn replies "Yes, We've lived too long". And while I normally dig a gloomy YA story, that is just weird. For all that, I kind of like Tirian and Jewel and their friendship/suicide pact. They were highlights of the book for me. Lewis seemed to want to be done with the series (not sure why), but even anticipating that I found the ending to be kind of unpleasant and an invalidation of my emotional investment in this story. The book was a bummer and as such stuck out from the rest of the series in a bad way.
Second point: This novel features a return of POCs to Narnia, and sadly as a result is despicably racist. POCs are characterized as cruel slavers, manipulative, illogical, greedy, and "smelling of onions". yep. Not just one individual character, but the entire fictional race of people of color are said to smell like onions. Lewis' contempt for people of color is not at all subtle.
Point three: Also not subtle is the Christian religious allegory, which reaches a fever pitch in this one. Why do I bring this up so much as a problem? Basically, I hate being lectured to in fiction - a writer cannot possibly respect their readers if they also think they are morally superior to them. Furthermore, I find unsubtle religious allegories to lack imagination. There are definitely some subtle and interesting religious allegories in fiction - think Dostevsky, or Vonnegut. But this series preserves all the heavy handedness of a religious text and none of the ambiguity or conundrum of a more meaningful, persuasive religiously themed work. Finally I dislike books with an obvious agenda, and The Last Battle is straight up proselytizing. Would I have had such a problem with this if I had first read these as an unsuspecting child rather than a salty cynical adult? We’ll never know.
The whole thing was quite disappointing. My fondness for the doomed King and his unicorn bro aside and the excellent reading by Patrick Stewart (yeah, that's right Patrick Fucking Stewart reads the audiobook - so wasted), I really wish I had not read this and ended it on the high note of The Silver Chair.
Probably my least favorite of the novels for a number of reasons:
First point: The tone of this one is strangely dark - Early in the novel the king of Narnia, who is not yet 25, remarks to his unicorn bff " If we had died before today, we should have been happy" to which the unicorn replies "Yes, We've lived too long". And while I normally dig a gloomy YA story, that is just weird. For all that, I kind of like Tirian and Jewel and their friendship/suicide pact. They were highlights of the book for me. Lewis seemed to want to be done with the series (not sure why), but even anticipating that I found the ending to be kind of unpleasant and an invalidation of my emotional investment in this story. The book was a bummer and as such stuck out from the rest of the series in a bad way.
Second point: This novel features a return of POCs to Narnia, and sadly as a result is despicably racist. POCs are characterized as cruel slavers, manipulative, illogical, greedy, and "smelling of onions". yep. Not just one individual character, but the entire fictional race of people of color are said to smell like onions. Lewis' contempt for people of color is not at all subtle.
Point three: Also not subtle is the Christian religious allegory, which reaches a fever pitch in this one. Why do I bring this up so much as a problem? Basically, I hate being lectured to in fiction - a writer cannot possibly respect their readers if they also think they are morally superior to them. Furthermore, I find unsubtle religious allegories to lack imagination. There are definitely some subtle and interesting religious allegories in fiction - think Dostevsky, or Vonnegut. But this series preserves all the heavy handedness of a religious text and none of the ambiguity or conundrum of a more meaningful, persuasive religiously themed work. Finally I dislike books with an obvious agenda, and The Last Battle is straight up proselytizing. Would I have had such a problem with this if I had first read these as an unsuspecting child rather than a salty cynical adult? We’ll never know.
The whole thing was quite disappointing. My fondness for the doomed King and his unicorn bro aside and the excellent reading by Patrick Stewart (yeah, that's right Patrick Fucking Stewart reads the audiobook - so wasted), I really wish I had not read this and ended it on the high note of The Silver Chair.
This had some really funny parts, but still definately not my favorite.
4.5
"All their life in this world and all their adventures in Narnia had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story, which no one on earth has read: which goes on for ever: in which every chapter is better than the one before."
I was expecting to find the ending a lot weirder (bad) and less weird (good). surprising! this book is kept from 5/5 because of the racism and the exclusion of Susan from Heaven all because she likes nylons and lipstick and society.
"All their life in this world and all their adventures in Narnia had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story, which no one on earth has read: which goes on for ever: in which every chapter is better than the one before."
I was expecting to find the ending a lot weirder (bad) and less weird (good). surprising! this book is kept from 5/5 because of the racism and the exclusion of Susan from Heaven all because she likes nylons and lipstick and society.
Where the hell do I begin with this one. I both liked and hated it. It’s starts off typically Narnian but becomes very grim and dark at the end. Many characters die and Lewis really leans full tilt into the whole Theologian aspects of Narnia which can be very jarring