What is the best Narnia book?

What is your favorite of the Chronicles?

  • The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

    Votes: 25 34.7%

  • Prince Caspian

    Votes: 7 9.7%

  • The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

    Votes: 7 9.7%

  • The Silver Chair

    Votes: 6 8.3%

  • The Horse and His Boy

    Votes: 10 13.9%

  • The Magician’s Nephew

    Votes: 5 6.9%

  • The Last Battle

    Votes: 12 16.7%
  • Total voters
    72
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GoatyLegs

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Whats the best Narnia book

I have no idea if this has been asked but mine is LWW,SC,PC,VDT,MN,LB then the least fave is the Horse and his boy
 
THE HORSE & HIS BOY!!!
All the way..
I love them all but I just love the subtlety of this book. The fact that it is a snapshot of the Pevensie rule, I like it. It is snugly placed, chronologically, before the end of LWW and before the beginning of PC, because of this, I find it fascinating. It is the only book which doesnt have children falling into Narnia, it is set completely in Narnia, and the culture, adventure and mystery which unravells is truly fantastic.. As i say, i do love them all, but the way that this is so different to the linear style of LWW and the others is brilliant! :)
 
you're right it is really different from the other books, maybe that's why it's my least favorite (i don't say that i don't like it)

i just love the storys whit the pevensie-children in it. Eustace and jill are great to, and so are digory and polly, but Peter, Susan Edmund and Lucy just make it "real" Narnia to me (can't help it:))
 
i like the Magicians Nephew bcuz im reading it now...though the last time i opened it was saturday i think
 
My favorite Narnia Chronicle is The Horse and His Boy. It is also my favorite to listen to on Focus on the Family Radio Theatre version.

My least favorite is either The Silver Chair, because it always struck me as having a "going nowhere" plot, though I love the Puddleglum character. I also have a distaste for The Last Battle. To this day, I cannot resolve Lewis' depiction of Emeth. It just doesn't hold theological water that a dynamic worshipper of another God would actually be worshipping Christ.

But anyway, let's not address that already ironed-out issue in this thread.
 
I think without a doubt the best narnia book is the next to get the silver screen experience, that's right my best is Prince Caspian. I love that book. In fact it's not only my fav. narnia book it's my fav. book ever.
 
The Horse and His Boy was my first Narnia book, then Prince Caspian then I read all the books in order. For me it's a toss up between Voyage of the Dawn Treader and The Silver Chair.
 
I would have to say, as sad as it is to choose from the best book series upon the face of Earth, well...I'm going with The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe. It was the first published and the book that introduced me to magical worlds and whatnot. Ever since, it's been almost strictly fantasy for this girl!
 
Narnian Princess said:
I really liked The Silver Chair. I was shocked when I discoverd the White Witch was back in another form. But how did she come back anyway.........
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She actually wasn't back in another form, the Lady of the Green Kirtle was just of the same kind as the White Witch. At the end of chapter 16, Lewis says this,

"And now they all saw what it meant; how a wicked Witch (doubtless the same kind as that White Witch who had brought the Great Winter on Narnia long ago) had contrived the whole thing, first killing Rillian's mother and enchanting Rillian himself."

So it wasn't like the White Witch was re-incarnated or anything, it was just that she was related to her in some way.

For me, it is extremely difficult to choose a favourite book, becuase they are all soooo good. But if you had to corner me and force me to choose, I would have to say a tie between Voyage of the Dawn Treader and Last Battle. In my opinion, those two have some of the richest theology and storytelling of any literature I've ever read.
 
Pardon me for answering this way, but C.S. Lewis mentioned the best of the Narnia stories and I take his word for it:
But for them it was only the beginning of the real story. 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 forever: in which every chapter is better than the one before.
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When I was four years old, C.S. ("Jack") Lewis turned to page one. One day, in God's good time, I will join him there. Love you, Jack; bear it well Son of Adam. Till then, I think my favorite is LWW.
 
lieke said:
you're right it is really different from the other books, maybe that's why it's my least favorite (i don't say that i don't like it)

i just love the storys whit the pevensie-children in it. Eustace and jill are great to, and so are digory and polly, but Peter, Susan Edmund and Lucy just make it "real" Narnia to me (can't help it:))
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You said it !! :)
 
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