C.S. Lewis
Prince Caspian. Lynn Redgrave is a wonderful reader, maybe the best I’ve heard. This is an excellent audiobook.
While I am still deciding what paperback to take on my vacation, I am not fucking around with the audiobooks. My iPod Shuffle is going to be filled with as many of the Narnia books as I can fit.
I am listening to these in their original order, but not because I am some kind of purist who is having a fit because the publisher is messing with my childhood. I originally read these books entirely out of order: my mother picked up The Horse and His Boy for me during my horse-crazy years, when I would read anything about horses but nothing whatsoever about magic and fantasy and strange lands. After that I read the others as I could get them from the library, and I think that The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe may have been the last one I read.
A few years ago I read a one-volume Chronicles of Narnia in the new order, and I thought it worked quite well. The story of the witch and the wardrobe always seems more compelling to me if you already know the original history.
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on June 23rd, 2005 at 12:58 pm
I agree that too much is made about reading these in sequence– it’s not like they are so complicated that crucial context is lost. Actually, the ones I like best are the ones where the reoccuring protagonists are in the background, like “The Horse and His Boy”, or the second or third generation protagonists, like “The Silver Chair.” Actually, “The Siver Chair” is my favorite because Puddleglum is so real. He drinks, and he gets depressed– not a lot of other Narnians do this sort of thing, unless they are intended to be bad people in need of reform.
on June 25th, 2005 at 3:14 pm
The Last Battle is my favorite Narnia book but that’s not much of a distinction because I love them all almost equally.