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To: Rambi who wrote (6560)	12/10/2005 8:39:06 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 542214

I agree- Harry Potter is more fun, and so are the Oz books- nothing holds a candle to the Oz books (not even Harry Potter)- except for Terry Pratchett's Discworld series. I found the Voyage of the Dawn Treader fairly boring, if I remember right. If I remember (and it's been a long time since we read them) I liked The Silver Chair, The Last Battle, and The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe best.

To: Rambi who wrote (6560)	12/11/2005 8:14:26 PM
From: thames_sider	Respond to of 542214

<ot> The Christian symbolism is blatant! I don't know how anyone could miss it-- especially Aslan's death and resurrection. I didn't miss it entirely when I first read them, aged around 9-12: but I mentally discounted most of it, and didn't catch that theme. To be fair, I was in one of my more precocious periods and had read some cut-down Norse myths plus the Graves translations of the Greek myths: so one more resurrected hero figure wasn't especially obvious to me as a specifically Christian theme... The one overtly Xtian part I found was the final few chapters of "Voyage of the Dawn Treader"; the rest of the volume was my favourite then, a wonderful chaptered-quest style following the Odyssey or some of the Irish myths, but it had this appallingly squishy ending which after the first pass I tended to skip as unreadable whenever I revisited the book. It wasn't till I read an account of the Inklings that I realised what and why this symbolism was! (The ending to the Last Battle was almost as weak, and decidedly petty also: although I would term it as not so much Christian as Pelasgian, since it has some decidedly heretical ideas about the need for actual rather than nominal worship... wonder if those will come out in the film?) Are they going to do all seven books? That's what I've read but I really can't imagine how the Horse and his Boy will get past the racism censors in recognisable format... I think the Magician's Nephew should be the most enjoyable, anyway :)