Ok, I was trying not to get into actual sequence war battles, just stating my opinion, but in fact Lewis did not prefer internal chronological order. He got a letter from a fan saying "I want to read the books in chronological order but my mother DEMANDS that I read them in publication order." He responded with something like "I think you're right and your mother is wrong, I really do not care what order people read them, you can read them in whatever order you want."
That's basically the evidence people have been using to say that Lewis "preferred" internal chronological.
Most series where publication order and internal chronological order are different, I go back and forth between the two but with Narnia I'm kind of a zealot. Possibly this is only because they changed the official series order while I was growing up, but still. When my first boxed set wore out I went on e-Bay and acquired another one of the appropriate era rather than cope with the retcon numbering. LWW assumes that the reader has never heard of Aslan. TMN opens with essentially "here's some backstory for that universe you already know about."
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Date: 2011-01-15 18:42 (UTC)That's basically the evidence people have been using to say that Lewis "preferred" internal chronological.
Most series where publication order and internal chronological order are different, I go back and forth between the two but with Narnia I'm kind of a zealot. Possibly this is only because they changed the official series order while I was growing up, but still. When my first boxed set wore out I went on e-Bay and acquired another one of the appropriate era rather than cope with the retcon numbering. LWW assumes that the reader has never heard of Aslan. TMN opens with essentially "here's some backstory for that universe you already know about."
In conclusion, um, FEELINGS?