Narnia

[cloudy]

Does anyone want to see The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe as badly as I do? I'm pacing around wanting to see it.

Those were my absolute favorite books when I was a kid - read them over and over until they literally fell apart. A couple of years ago, I bought a limited edition boxed set of The Chronicles of Narnia, and they're MINE....the kids have their own.

It looks like it will be wonderful. Thoughts?

 

[yui]

I'm very eager to see it, too, Cloudy! I've already told my friend's little boy that he has to go see it with me; he's twelve and I do think he is simply humoring me by agreeing to go.

 

[Guest]

Does anyone want to see The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe as badly as I do? I'm pacing around wanting to see it.

Those were my absolute favorite books when I was a kid - read them over and over until they literally fell apart. A couple of years ago, I bought a limited edition boxed set of The Chronicles of Narnia, and they're MINE....the kids have their own.

It looks like it will be wonderful. Thoughts?

Dying to see it myself.

 

[Saucyminx]

I read my set to ruins as well--actually 2 of them. My 10 year old son is on his second reading of them now.

So i can't wait either--i'm actually starting to annoy the children, because whenever the trailer comes on the tv, i stop whatever i'm doing, stare raptly at it and then say "I can't wait to go see that."

They just roll their eyes and say "yeah--we know mom. "

 

[cloudy]

I read my set to ruins as well--actually 2 of them. My 10 year old son is on his second reading of them now.

So i can't wait either--i'm actually starting to annoy the children, because whenever the trailer comes on the tv, i stop whatever i'm doing, stare raptly at it and then say "I can't wait to go see that."

They just roll their eyes and say "yeah--we know mom. "

my household has already learned to be silent while the trailer's on.

 

[maggot420]

My set is in tatters now too.
Shouldnt they have started with the first book though?
Why start with the second one?

 

[English Lady]

I'd imagine it's because The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe is the most famous of the set, and it's a good complete story, with the inclusion of Father Christmas which works in well for the festive season

I want to see Narnia myself, Hubby and I will go and see it when the mother in law is here to visit. She can baby sit

 

[logophile]

I managed to score passes to the preview on Dec 6. Can I just tell you that I'm missing La Leche League for the first time in 7 years to take my kids? So very excited here!

 

[rgraham666]

Oh yeah!

Read it first 41 years ago, at the age of nine. Haven't stopped loving it since.

But I feel the same way I did about Lord of The Rings. There's a fair bit of trepidation. It would be sooo easy to be disappointed.

On the other hand, Lord of The Rings was excellent, so I'm hopeful.

 

[yui]

My set is in tatters now too.
Shouldnt they have started with the first book though?
Why start with the second one?

Lemons! For the love of Narnia, put down the lemons, M!

Actually, I wondered the same thing, but EL is right, Lion, Witch and Wardrobe, is a relatively complete story on its own.

 

[lucky-E-leven]

I'm probably the only person here (or alive) that hasn't read them.
Not sure why, but Nancy Drew, Little House on the Prairie (series), and other miscellaneous books all came my way as a kid.
*pout*

Sidenote: I am fucking thrilled that Aeon Flux will be released soon!

 

[hugo_sam]

I'm probably the only person here (or alive) that hasn't read them.
Not sure why, but Nancy Drew, Little House on the Prairie (series), and other miscellaneous books all came my way as a kid.
*pout*

Sidenote: I am fucking thrilled that Aeon Flux will be released soon!

Don't feel like the lone stranger, Lucky. There are at least two of us. Just never did read it. I feel like I was missing something. Hardy boys, Nancy Drew, LOTR, and lots of other stuff but never CON.
ON day I'll get to it I guess.

 

[BlackShanglan]

I'm very excited. Nervous, because it will really, really hurt if they kill this beautiful tale - but the trailers look good! Can't wait to see it, I or the SO either.

We're also both keen to see "Cassnova." Nervous as well - that's something that could be very good or very bad - but we're hoping the former from the director of "Chocolat." The visuals, at least, look stunning.

Shanglan

 

[Remec]

Does anyone want to see The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe as badly as I do? I'm pacing around wanting to see it.

Those were my absolute favorite books when I was a kid - read them over and over until they literally fell apart. A couple of years ago, I bought a limited edition boxed set of The Chronicles of Narnia, and they're MINE....the kids have their own.

It looks like it will be wonderful. Thoughts?

Oh yes...ever since the first trailer showed months and months ago I have been hyped. Especially 'cause it came out of left field. I'm sure there had to have been some publicity somewhere, but none of the movie/entertainment magazines I read had anything in them that I recalled when the trailer came out. (And who else recognized what the story was before the first glimpse of streetlamp in wintry woods?)

We have a VHS of most of the cycle that came from, I think, a BBS-backed television production, and they're nice. I think the added money and time that comes with a full-blown studio version might make these even better though. (Well, this anyways, but here's to hoping we see some of the rest of the series also.)

 

[Remec]

My set is in tatters now too.
Shouldnt they have started with the first book though?
Why start with the second one?

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe is the first book. The later book, The Magician's Nephew, tells how Narnia came to be, but it was written as a prequel.

 

[Remec]

I'm probably the only person here (or alive) that hasn't read them.
Not sure why, but Nancy Drew, Little House on the Prairie (series), and other miscellaneous books all came my way as a kid.
*pout*

Sidenote: I am fucking thrilled that Aeon Flux will be released soon!

Ingalls-Wilder I never got around to reading, but I read the first 60+ Nacy Drew books. I know they we part of the same conglomerate of ghost writers that also produced the Hardy Boys, Bobbsey Twins, and a number of similar titles, but I seem to recall that they had more of a single person overseeing them, which might have been why I liked the writing and the characters more than in some of the others.

 

[BlackShanglan]

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe is the first book. The later book, The Magician's Nephew, tells how Narnia came to be, but it was written as a prequel.

Many stores are now selling them re-ordered to chronological order. In fact, I ended up not buying a new set (having given away my old in a moment of charity) because they only had them in the new order. I can't help but feel it's an idiotization to suggest that we couldn't comprehend the story in its original and perfectly right sequence.

Speaking of which ... talk about something that's damned well written. Think how small each of those books really is - how compact, how generous and pleasant, and what enormous amounts of ideas are crammed into those little books. And everything in its place - no book or plot or idea that seems just tacked on for no purpose. It begins where it needs to begin, and it ends when it needs to end instead of dragging itself forever onward so that the writer can buy a third house. And the themes it takes on! What children's writer today would have the guts to have the first book feature a child who is a traitor and a hero who dies horribly, mocked by his enemies? Let's not even ask if Disney would remotely consider a tale in which the last book of the series ends with all of the main characters dying and the most beautiful of all fictional worlds laid to ruin. Lewis really is a masterful writer, and more than that - a masterful thinker.

Shanglan

 

[rgraham666]

They did what, Shang?!

And agree about Lewis.

Actually my favourite by him is The Screwtape Letters. A lovely little piece of theology that one is.

 

[Remec]

Many stores are now selling them re-ordered to chronological order. In fact, I ended up not buying a new set (having given away my old in a moment of charity) because they only had them in the new order. I can't help but feel it's an idiotization to suggest that we couldn't comprehend the story in its original and perfectly right sequence.
Shanglan

Sacrilege!
Next thing you know, we'll be having people buy and read The Land of Oz before The Wizard of Oz, or the first Camber of Culdi Deryni trilogy before the first Kelson one, just because those books are written as occurring first.

With that sort of thinking, Peter Jackson should have made The Hobbit before LOTR. <shaking head and grumbling to self>

 

[BlackShanglan]

They did what, Shang?!

And agree about Lewis.

Actually my favourite by him is The Screwtape Letters. A lovely little piece of theology that one is.

Agreed, Remec and Rob, on the re-ordering. It's rare that I will actually walk out of a bookstore without buying anything, but I was too horrified to recover gracefully.

Rob, I agree on The Screwtape Letters. It's a wonderful work, brilliantly written, and I acknowledge with some embarassment that it and the Chronicles have probably done more to shape my religious sentiments than the Bible itself. Perhaps it's not such a bad thing; Lewis is so humane and so insightful that again and again, it is his words that bring me to some consciousness of what I'm doing and what I ought to be doing. Him and Mill, bless him.

Shanglan

 

[CharleyH]

I'm probably the only person here (or alive) that hasn't read them.
Not sure why, but Nancy Drew, Little House on the Prairie (series), and other miscellaneous books all came my way as a kid.
*pout*

Sidenote: I am fucking thrilled that Aeon Flux will be released soon!

LOL - ROFLOL

 

[lucky-E-leven]

LOL - ROFLOL

Wassofunny?

 

[CharleyH]

Wassofunny?

Dont you know? LOL?

 

[zeb1094]

I'm probably the only person here (or alive) that hasn't read them.
Not sure why, but Nancy Drew, Little House on the Prairie (series), and other miscellaneous books all came my way as a kid.
*pout*

Sidenote: I am fucking thrilled that Aeon Flux will be released soon!

You're not alone. What I read as a child was Hardy Boys and anything by Robert A. Heinlein that I could be my hands on. Did love to watch AeonFlux on latenight TV though.

 

[Huckleman2000]

I haven't read the Narnia books in over 30 years, but I'm definitely looking forward to the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe! That's the first one I read, and it was a memorable circumstance.

We read it aloud in my 4th grade class at Sacred Heart school in Kaduna, Nigeria. We continued with Prince Caspian, and The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. The teacher was English, and between her accent and the unfamiliarity of the name, I thought Eustace was named Useless until I got a copy of the book myself. Travelling so much at a young age, I really identified with the kids in the books; when I returned to "the States", I felt I had more in common with them than with my classmates. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader I think was my favorite of the series, and I can't hear of the Caspian Sea without thinking of Prince Caspian.