How do you read the series? I have never read it before, but I did see the first movie already. The wife got me the 7 book compilation, and it has it in Narnia universe chronological order. But publishing order is completely different, and the librarian at one of the schools argued pretty passionately that reading it in publishing order is much better. Apparently The Magicians Nephew sheds light on a lot of things that you get into reading in the published order, but I usually prefer to read things chronologically.

So WTF how did other who read the series do it?

1/16/2008 10:28:47 AM

i read it in chronological order

1/16/2008 10:29:47 AM

I read it both ways...

but chronological is a good bet

1/16/2008 10:32:12 AM

fuck that movie.

Every fucking time i'll be flipping through the movie channels and i'll see "Chronicles of... " and im all like w00t! Riddick!

But then i see this shit and i get depressed.

1/16/2008 10:45:45 AM

i read it in chronological order

1/16/2008 10:46:44 AM

Magicians Nephew
Lion, Witch & Wardrobe
Horse & His Boy
Prince Caspian
Dawn Treader
Silver Chair
Last Battle

That's the only real way to do it. Publishing order sucks balls.

1/16/2008 12:31:54 PM

Yea thats right there is how I have it in this book. As I said, a librarian was the one that made the case for publishing order. Prior to this, I was two chapters into The Magicians Nephew and never even knew their was some controversy about the order of the books.

1/16/2008 12:55:22 PM

Quote :

"Magicians Nephew Lion, Witch & Wardrobe Horse & His Boy Prince Caspian Dawn Treader Silver Chair Last Battle"

that's the way i read it

i even had the companion to the chronicles of narnia book growing up

Quote :

"uck that movie. Every fucking time i'll be flipping through the movie channels and i'll see "Chronicles of... " and im all like w00t! Riddick! But then i see this shit and i get depressed."

is sad in so many ways....

1/16/2008 1:04:45 PM

god that movie was horrible

1/16/2008 1:34:56 PM

I liked the movie...never read the books tho

1/16/2008 3:39:46 PM

Chronic WHAT!

1/16/2008 3:42:52 PM

Quote :

"“I think I agree with your order [i.e. chronological] for reading the books more than with your mother’s. The series was not planned beforehand as she thinks. When I wrote The Lion I did not know I was going to write any more. Then I wrote P. Caspian as a sequel and still didn't think there would be any more, and when I had done The Voyage I felt quite sure it would be the last. But I found as I was wrong. So perhaps it does not matter very much in which order anyone read them. I’m not even sure that all the others were written in the same order in which they were published.” (Dorsett & Mead 1996)"

(that's C.S. Lewis responding to a reader's question "What order do I read them in?")

from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chronicles_of_Narnia#Reading_order

[Edited on January 20, 2008 at 7:49 PM. Reason : yes]

1/20/2008 7:48:36 PM

Chrono Trigger.

1/20/2008 8:19:03 PM

Lion, Witch & Wardrobe
Prince Caspian
Dawn Treader
Silver Chair
Horse and His Boy
Magician's Nephew
Last Battle

That's the way I read them first, and to me it still makes the most sense. As he wrote them, Lewis's world and story got bigger and bigger. There's something almost disjointed about reading Magician's Nephew first because there's stuff in it that's never close to being touched on in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe for the simple fact that Lewis hadn't even thought up Magician's Nephew yet. Plus I like reading the two really religious ones at the end. Those first 4 are really story driven and slowly work you in to the religious aspects. Magician's Nephew and Last Battle are the two most blatantly allegorically driven so they kind of work together as a Genesis/Revelations thing.

1/21/2008 7:10:08 PM