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
Peepiceek said:
Come on. Surely you thought that already! :D;)

I just feel they're not very 'Narnia'. Lewis seems to be inserting a twentieth century school into an otherwise medieval context. And the man turning into a tree is just weird.

Peeps
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Well, since the basic theme of PC is turning to faith from a refusal to believe in the supernatural (a Narnia-version of modernism) it's not wholly out of character for the book to include a repressive school. The disconnect comes because we've only been seeing the Telmarines through Caspian's eyes. Caspian, being a prince, would have had a life very different from the average Telmarine. If Miraz was ruling the people tyrannically, repressive schools would have been a handy way for him to keep the next generation of commoners in line with his way of thinking.
 
I can see the point, but I just don't feel the two worlds belong together in this way - I find it implausible and inelegant and I wish Lewis had written the end of PC in a different way. It's the only bit in the whole series I don't like but, sorry, I just don't like it.

Peeps
 
The best narnia book ever!

Okey, I know there's more of this but can't we do it again? :)

Which of the seven narnia books is the best? Make your own top seven (Start with the best!), and then I/You can count the points of each book, for example if your favorite is LWW, then it gets 7 points. Then VDT is second (maybe) it gets six points, and so on...

Then we see which is the best book, not only by voting for the favorite, but also the second, third... that will give a more thrustworsty result, agreed? So write your top seven and let's see wich is really the best one! ;)

Okey, here's mine: (Hard desicion)

7. Prince Caspian
6. The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe
5. The Horse and his Boy
4. The Silver Chair
3. The Last Battle
2. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
1. The Magicians Nephew

What's yours? :)
 
Very very tough call, and I change my mind regularly, but I think at the moment it's this:

7. TLB
6. VDT
5. HHB
4. TSC
3. TMN
2. PC
1. LWW

Peeps
 
The Last Battle
The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
The Silver Chair
Prince Caspian (lol the only one without a "the" in front of it xD)
The Horse and His boy
The Magician's Nephew

(though honestly they're all about tied for me after Voyage.:D I don't want to put any of them last either.:eek:)
 
1. Voyage of the Dawn Treader
2. The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe
3. The Horse and His Boy
4. The Magician's Nephew
5. Prince Caspian
6. Last Battle
7. Silver Chair
 
SC is at the bottom of my list also. But the Last Battle second to last?? Any particular reason Missreepicheep? Here's my order

Last Battle
Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Lion Witch Wardrobe
Magician's Nephew
Horse and his boy
Prince Caspian
Silver chair
 
Don't get me wrong. I like all of the Narnia books. I enjoy them very much. But one of the books had to be last on the list, even though I am a fan of them all.

The beginning of The Last Battle scared and depressed me when I was nine, although I did love the ending. Now that I'm a lot older, I really like the book, although still not as much as the others. Why? Well, I've never connected with Jill or the reformed Eustace like I have with Lucy and Edmund, characters that VDT focuses on. And even though I am enthralled by the sybolism throughout The Last Battle, and have read the ending so many times I've nearly got it memorized... I just don't like the book in its entirety as much as I do the others. It doesn't connect with me in the same way the rest of the series does. I don't mean to offend anyone that loves The Last Battle. It's a wonderful book. I just like the others better. :)
 
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
The Silver Chair
The Magician's Nephew
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
The Horse and his Boy
The Last Battle
Prince Caspian

It was rather difficult to decide which of the first three is actually at the top, but this is more or less accurate.

This is all subject to change, of course.:p
 
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Mozart the Meerkitten said:
ah this thread may end up being merged with the old one though....lol
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hope not...
And I don't think so...

By the way, here's the rank this far:

The Last Battle: 17
The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe: 13
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader: 13
Prince Caspian: 12
The Horse and his Boy: 12
The Silver Chair: 12
Magicians Nephew: 5

Last Battle in the lead!

And the one with most seven points is Last battle with 2 sevens!
 
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