Narnia poll!

[starlady]

So I have finished my Narnia reread, in honor of which, I have a very important poll:

Poll #6446 The Chronicles of Narnia: favorite?

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 40

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Which is your favorite Chronicle of Narnia?

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The Magician's Nephew
5 (12.5%)

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
5 (12.5%)

The Horse and His Boy
9 (22.5%)

Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia
5 (12.5%)

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
11 (27.5%)

The Silver Chair
5 (12.5%)

The Last Battle
0 (0.0%)

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With a bonus post on the Narnia musical.

Comments

I'm so torn.

[jesse_the_k]

These books saved my sanity when I was wee, and my family was in the middle of some ugly shit. After Winnie the Pooh, they were the first books I owned. I read 'em three times in a row. As we shuttled between apts and moved cities I developed an Aslan-based religion.

Just after I finished TLB for the last time, I read an article in the newspaper about the Christian allegory. My upbringing was militantly secular Jewish. I felt totally unmoored.

So I want to reread them, and then I don't. Is it wiser to leave the whole issue in the past, or should I stir it up so I can appreciate your criticism and reflections?

Re: I'm so torn.

[starlady]

Though my experience w/r/t discovering the Christian aspects wasn't so wrenching, I also didn't really reread the books after I found it out, and that was a dozen years ago. Speaking personally, I think I've come to appreciate and understand how much I still love the books all the more for having done this reread, and I've come to a better grasp of how the Christianity--which Lewis obviously put and saw there, but which isn't necessarily obvious if you're not looking for it--fits in with the other elements of the books.