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carmenrlawrence 's review for:
The Chronicles of Narnia
by C.S. Lewis
Well, I'm glad I finally read them all as it is totally iconic. And I can really see how some of my favorite writers and directors pull inspiration from Lewis' ideas in this series. However, I personally was not a big fan.
Each novel got a bit more heavy handed with it's biblical messages and parallels. For example, the first book relating the creation of Narnia to that of the world was obviously a parallel but it was still about the story- by the end of The Last Battle, when they make it to Aslan's Eastern lands, he's basically bashing them over the head saying, "YOU DIED AND WENT TO HEAVEN. ISN'T HEAVEN COOL? DIDN'T IT SUCK WHEN THE DEVIL, er, TASH ATE THAT GUY? AREN'T YOU GLAD YOUR CHRISTIAN er NARNIAN?"
I think my favorite may have been The Horse and His Boy- you couldn't always see the ending coming from page one and it didn't really tie into the overarching "ASLAN IS GOD" storyline. It was just a fantasy adventure in Narnia from the perspective of these innocent bystanders watching a potential war unfold. I liked it a lot. Every other book was entirely too predictable and tedious and slow and... kind of boring. Maybe it's great for seven year olds!
Each novel got a bit more heavy handed with it's biblical messages and parallels. For example, the first book relating the creation of Narnia to that of the world was obviously a parallel but it was still about the story- by the end of The Last Battle, when they make it to Aslan's Eastern lands, he's basically bashing them over the head saying, "YOU DIED AND WENT TO HEAVEN. ISN'T HEAVEN COOL? DIDN'T IT SUCK WHEN THE DEVIL, er, TASH ATE THAT GUY? AREN'T YOU GLAD YOUR CHRISTIAN er NARNIAN?"
I think my favorite may have been The Horse and His Boy- you couldn't always see the ending coming from page one and it didn't really tie into the overarching "ASLAN IS GOD" storyline. It was just a fantasy adventure in Narnia from the perspective of these innocent bystanders watching a potential war unfold. I liked it a lot. Every other book was entirely too predictable and tedious and slow and... kind of boring. Maybe it's great for seven year olds!