Category: book Nook
First off, guess I should say that for those of you that don't know, I'm 18 going on 19 in June. I have never read these books before. No wait, I take that back. I have. I read The Lion Witch and the wardrobe, the Silver Chair, Prince Caspian, and Voyage of the Dawn Treador. Problem? They were all abridged but I didn't know that when I was about ten or eleven. Well, not too long ago, we were all talking on ventrilo, and we got onto the subject of books as we seem to frequently do, and some one talked about Narnia books, and I said that I thought the books that I had were abridged, since they seemed really short. Well some one said thay had them in dramatized audio, and they'd be happy to give them to me if I'd like to listen to them. Oh yeah. I had never heard of dramatized audio before. So I took them, and all that weekend, I listened. When I was finished, I really thought about it. Which one was my favorite? Definitely book 3, "A Horse and His Boy". I just liked the overall flow, and it being completely based in the land of Narnia. The Last Battle came in a close second with it being so intense and I was just waiting for what was coming next.
So, after reading all that, I'd like to know. What were your favorite books and why? I also just found out that all 7 were written from the years of 1950-1956.
Two more things: 1. The dramatized audio that my friend gave me was from the BBC doing the books not focus on the family. I listened to focus on the family on youtube, and really didn't like it.
2. I was listening to my IPhone a bit ago, and came across this.
This song
and when the rhythm guitarist gallopped on the D chord (at least I think that's what he did, muted, and strummed extremely quick), all I could think of was the 3rd book, and Bre and Shaster running from Aslan.
Ok, I'm done now. I'm sure you all think I'm strange now, but their ya go.
Mike.
I've read all of them a long time ago, but the only two I really remember are the Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe and The Magician's Nephew. The version I listened to was Focus on the Family. Might try the BBC ones.
This is how bored I get:
Found another song that reminds me of the books, well the 3rd one anyway. Its This one
Its a bit loud, so you might want to turn down your headphones if you click it. See? This is how bored I get when I'm up at 5 in the morning. I find songs that seem, to me at least, go along with scenes of books or movies in my head.
If you'd like them rose, I can put them up on dropbox for you.
Yeah cool. Thanks
Here ya go.
Click me! click me! click me!
now i know those books, and love all seven, i've even read a book called the world according to narnia, which is a great read. it goes into the background of the books, and is really accessible read too.
Goes into the background? how so?
I just enjoy the whole series as a single unit.
do you still have that BBC files? I want them. My favorite one is by far the Last Battle. It is so sad at the end, yet so happy, and I liked what happened at the stable when Tash took rishtat tarkon and shift and ate them all up.
Back a few summers ago I read the
entire series...
Didn't really have a favorite book
only to say I appreciated the books
more so than the movie presentation.
Will agree with post #9 in that to me
I enjoy the series of the books as one unit
Also to give to know:
The Chronicles of Narnia
The Voyage of the Dawn
trailer In theaters on 10 December 2010 (USA) :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1bf2DXWMfk
the book i was talking of looks at the bible and at passages in the narnia books to work out what on earth CS lewis meant by certain things he wrote. very good book the world according to narnia.
The interesting thing is that according to a lot of material I've read, Lewis didn't consciously make those parallels between Narnia and the Bible. Like many things in this life it just sort of worked out that way. As for me, I'm not sure if I'd have a favorite book. I just liked the whole series. I agree that the books are and will always be miles if not kilometers better than the movies, but ironically I think the more recent films had more emotion to them than those PBS versions.