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[cheekbones3]

Tired this morning. Flatmate traumas, while still happening are much more low-key now, which is a blessed relief...

Started to read the Narnia series of books. Why is it that the second one is easily the most famous? Strange to have read one book out of seven, and to not have even known about the other six at the time...should be able to do that in a couple of weeks or so - they aren't exactly heavy reading.

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[meran555.livejournal.com]

i've been interested in re-reading all those books as an adult...but i've been held back by the fact that my christian mythology is lacking, and there's evidently a whole lot of allusions in the storyline, because cs lewis was a very christian man. so, i've not reread them yet, but am waiting until i know more christian mythology so that i don't miss anything.

lord knows, i hate missing things.

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[cheekbones3.livejournal.com]

I just like enjoying the stories, but I have have been told as such too...

[rainstorm.livejournal.com]

The Horse and His Boy is my favourite, along with The Last Battle.

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is good, but not the best. strange it's the most well known.

[http://users.livejournal.com/dee_/]

The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe is the book that alludes to the most well known & accessible part of the Bible, ie The Gospels (eg. Aslan/Jesus dying & rising from dead) & has an obvious Good-Bad conflict to involve the reader. Read the books as a child for the story but I think it's a shame to read them as an adult without realising the deeper content. But then I was a Divinity student.

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[cheekbones3.livejournal.com]

Well I just read the first one - I may as well have read Genesis!