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3.7 AVERAGE
3.7 AVERAGE
adventurous
emotional
informative
inspiring
reflective
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
Shasta is a boy living in a fisherman's little hut. He is running a lot of errands such as cleaning the hut, mending the fishing nets etc. Although, Shasta longs to go to the North, to behold the mountains at which he can look from his shabby hut. One day, a man (a queer one, with a tunic and a scimitar) arrives to his hut and wants to buy him from his "father". Although, the man's horse is a Talking Horse of Narnia and persuades Shasta to travel together to Narnia!
A quite good book that is very enjoyable. Also, I think that the Christian allegory still remains. Read it!
'Child,' said the Lion, 'I am telling you your story, not hers. No one is told any story but their own.'
I’m stuck between giving this a 3/3.5/4 stars because I really enjoyed it and it was fun going back in time to when the Pevensies were ruling Narnia. Sometimes it dragged and the racial undertones created by the Calormen/Narnian divide left me feeling a little unsure about the book. I love Lewis’ use of Christian themes and parallels but this one feels more complicated as it appears to create a racial divide and good/evil or normal/strange binary when it comes to his descriptions of the darker skinned Calormen and the white Narnian’s who worship Aslan (aka Christ). Aside from this, as a fictional story it was fun and I liked the characters, the beautiful descriptions of the places and the reveal at the end.
adventurous
lighthearted
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
N/A
Loveable characters:
N/A
I love CS Lewis but this one didn’t get my attention like his other books. I don’t know if I missed some importance about the story but I also wasn’t able to see how this addition affected the rest of series.
adventurous
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
i liked it!! a bit hard to read but thats js bc its written in 1950’s
Read this book again this month, such a good one. A classic road-trip book, mixed with some spirituality stuff. This book got a little confusing at the end but all together pulled together really well. The character development of Shasta and Bree was also something that really stuck out to my this go around. From Bree being a “proper horse” and Shasta just being a boy, to the end Bree embracing the childlike aspects of life and Shasta embracing responsibility. Highly suggest.
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First off: I am reading these book in chronological order rather than in publication order as I think that makes more sense. Not that it really matters but just to clearify!
This was my first time reading The Horse and His Boy. I feel that this is one of the lesser known books in the series, I was certainly not familiar with the story! This story does not really take place in Narnia. The main characters Shasta and Aravis meet some castmembers from Narnia (talking animals and some well-known King’s and Queen’s!) but only are in Narnia for a few pages towards the end. The only reason I can think why C.S. Lewis included this book in his Chronicles is to shed some favourable light on Narnia because else it does not really add anything to the series.
The Horse and His Boy takes place in Calormen, a land to the South of Narnia. Two runaways meet and go off on a journey together to Narnia. I never actually understood why this book is called The Horse and His Boy because this book is just as much about Aravis, the female companion of the boy. Aravis was also a much stronger character than Shasta and she felt much better developed; Shasta was pretty much a blank canvas apart from the last three or so chapters.
The real masterminds of this novel are the horses: Bree and Hwin. They are the driving force and the only reason why they are all travelling to Narnia in the first place. I did not like Bree very much: he was very conceited and felt superior to almost everyone. This became most obvious in relationship to Hwin, the timid mare of Aravis. Hwin was smarter but almost always overruled by the arrogance of Bree.
There is nothing mayorly wrong with the book, apart from the somewhat vague reasons for their journey. There was nothing super right with it as well. I was just in the middle of the road for me. It was ok, but sofar the least of the books. I want to read more about Narnia itself and I hope to get more in the next book Prince Caspian. Therefore I gave this book 3 stars.
First off: I am reading these book in chronological order rather than in publication order as I think that makes more sense. Not that it really matters but just to clearify!
This was my first time reading The Horse and His Boy. I feel that this is one of the lesser known books in the series, I was certainly not familiar with the story! This story does not really take place in Narnia. The main characters Shasta and Aravis meet some castmembers from Narnia (talking animals and some well-known King’s and Queen’s!) but only are in Narnia for a few pages towards the end. The only reason I can think why C.S. Lewis included this book in his Chronicles is to shed some favourable light on Narnia because else it does not really add anything to the series.
The Horse and His Boy takes place in Calormen, a land to the South of Narnia. Two runaways meet and go off on a journey together to Narnia. I never actually understood why this book is called The Horse and His Boy because this book is just as much about Aravis, the female companion of the boy. Aravis was also a much stronger character than Shasta and she felt much better developed; Shasta was pretty much a blank canvas apart from the last three or so chapters.
The real masterminds of this novel are the horses: Bree and Hwin. They are the driving force and the only reason why they are all travelling to Narnia in the first place. I did not like Bree very much: he was very conceited and felt superior to almost everyone. This became most obvious in relationship to Hwin, the timid mare of Aravis. Hwin was smarter but almost always overruled by the arrogance of Bree.
There is nothing mayorly wrong with the book, apart from the somewhat vague reasons for their journey. There was nothing super right with it as well. I was just in the middle of the road for me. It was ok, but sofar the least of the books. I want to read more about Narnia itself and I hope to get more in the next book Prince Caspian. Therefore I gave this book 3 stars.
"Der Ritt nach Narnia" ist eine relativ unabhängige Geschichte, die chronologisch nach dem zweiten Buch eingeordnet ist. Man spürt einen Hauch von 1001 Nacht durch Wüste, Pferde und Städte, deren Tore am Abend geschlossen werden. Die Handlung hat mich nicht vom Hocker gerissen, wobei ich nicht ausschließen will, dass sie auf einen jugendlichen Leser anders wirkt. Shasta flieht mit dem sprechenden Pferd Bree nach Narnia und gerät in einen Strudel von Ereignissen, bei dem u.a. seine Identität eine Rolle spielen wird.
Naja. Ich hatte mehr Substanz erwartet oder zumindest irgendeine Botschaft, die das Buch vermitteln möchte. Insbesondere der Kampf am Ende hat mich gestört, das war doch alles sehr einseitig und klischeehaft. Wenigstens kann C.S. Lewis flott schreiben und der Auftritt von Aslan hat mich wieder versöhnt.
3 von 5 Sternen
Naja. Ich hatte mehr Substanz erwartet oder zumindest irgendeine Botschaft, die das Buch vermitteln möchte. Insbesondere der Kampf am Ende hat mich gestört, das war doch alles sehr einseitig und klischeehaft. Wenigstens kann C.S. Lewis flott schreiben und der Auftritt von Aslan hat mich wieder versöhnt.
3 von 5 Sternen
An enjoyable story with fun world building that expand on the time in Narnia when the pevensies were rulers
Not my favourite Narnia book but definitely a better read than I remembered.