Which order do you think the books should be read in?

What order?

  • Written (LWW, PC, VoDT...)

    Votes: 87 46.0%

  • Chronological (MN, LWW, HHB...)

    Votes: 89 47.1%

  • Other (Please specify)

    Votes: 13 6.9%
  • Total voters
    189
iMerge with older threads on the subject.

As I stated somewhere previously, I much prefer the order in which they were written/published. That way, you get the thrill of meeting Aslan just as the Pevensie children did. You feel their joy when they first hear his name, and yet you don't know who he is, or how he can help ... whereas if you already read TMN, you know all about him, so it is not such a mystery.
 
I was born the year they changed the order, I'm pretty sure(correct me if I'm wrong-1995?) So my mom bought the series for me in chronological, and that's how she read them to me, and that's how I think of them. On MN and LWW, really, it's ok if you read MN first, cause you still aren't sure if Aslan or Jadis or even Narnia is the same place, because of the different ways the children got through. Maybe no one else's brain works like mine though. lol.
 
Hear-aslan-roar said:
I have read all of the narnia books before, but I am wanting to get the full effect of them...Please help me..what order should I read them to get the full effect out of my reading experience.
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Read them as fallows:

The Chronicles of Narnia:

The Magician's Nephew
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
The Horse and His Boy
Prince Caspian
The Voyage of Dawn Treader
The Silver chair
the Last Battle
 
I say read it in the publishing order the first time round.

Then read it in chronological order.


after that, just one at random, and read them that way.
 
Hear-aslan-roar said:
I have read all of the narnia books before, but I am wanting to get the full effect of them...Please help me..what order should I read them to get the full effect out of my reading experience.
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I think you should read the in chronilogical order.
 
:) I just registered with narniafans.com and have read all 15 pages on this topic. Why read the books in chronological order? Because they were only recently published that way? To keep precise, calculated track of everything that is going on? My, oh my, what do they teach them in schools these days?

Rather, read them in the order they were originally published-the order they were written in by the great genius C.S. Lewis himself. Savor every delicious moment and experience the wonder, awe and mystery. Let the dots connect.
 
The first time I read it the chronological order, now I'm just reading them over again in which ever order I want. :p
I'm glad the movies will be in the written order. :D :D :D
 
I think that now, as they have started with LWW, and are doing Prince Caspian, they will have to do the books where the original Pevensies are in first before the actors and actresses get too old to portray their characters. For this reason, I think that it will go:

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (already confirmed)
Prince Caspian (already confirmed)
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Lucy and Edmund are in it, therefore they can't be too old!)
The Silver Chair
The Horse and His Boy
The Magician's Nephew
The Last Battle

The last four I put in that order because that's the order in which they were published.
 
So far they are making them in the order that are written and I want it that way because so far I was reading the books in that order (The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. Prince Caspian. The Voyage of Dawn Treader (I started reading but stopped but I am planning on starting to read it again)
 
I first read them in more or less the published order except I started with PC (I was given the book for Christmas) After that I got LWW VODT and all the other books. I would say it's better to read them in published order the first time, but after that it doesn't really matter. I just read which ever I fancy at the time. They're all terrific stories anyway
 
Filming order may be affected by the ages of actors. But some scenes could be shot in advance for later use. For instance, "The Horse and His Boy" is not likely to be filmed until Georgie Hensley is about 28 years old; but I would like it if they could film a scene with her and Jim Broadbent NOW, to use then. I've posted the idea before: Lucy is seen talking to the Professor not long after the return of the four from Narnia, telling him about the adult life she and her siblings lived there. This would fade into the action of HHB, while helping the audience to place HHB in the time-stream.
 
yeah...that would be good...i read the books twice in the written order (LWW, PC, etc.), so i hope they keep the movies in that order...i really like the idea of filming parts of THAHB...that sounds good to me!
 
Chronological

i prefer the Chronological order beacuse it is easy to understood than the orihinal order.
1.magician's nephew
2.the lion, the witch and the wardrobe
3.the horse and his boy
4.prince caspian
5.voyage of the dawn treader
6.the silver chair
7.the last battle
 
Chronological

i prefer the Chronological order beacuse it is easy to understood than the original order.
1.magician's nephew
2.the lion, the witch and the wardrobe
3.the horse and his boy
4.prince caspian
5.voyage of the dawn treader
6.the silver chair
7.the last battle
 
New Order

This is official news I read up on in another site:

The order of the films are as follows:

1. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
2. Prince Caspian
3. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
4. The Silver Chair
5. The Magician's Nephew
6. The Horse and His Boy
7. The Last Battle

Whoever voted on 'Other' might just win
 
I think we should read it in the way of publication.
Have you ever written a story? It's sort of like exploring. Along the way you find out more about your characters, the place they live etc.
So you would naturally get a view of Narnia closer to that of Lewis' if you read it the way he wrote it. It's sort of like exploring Narnia with him.
 
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