i thought all the books were good,the first one was a little boring but the rest were very good

The books were pretty good, far better than the movie, but they are geared towards readers at about the Junior high school level. C.S. Lewis also has a trilogy out (which I can not remember the name of these three books but I beleive one is The Perils of Perilandria) which also merges theology and fantasy but is for more advanced readers. I liked that trilogy much better. For a christian writer he has/had more flexible and advanced views than just about any self-proclaimed "christian" I've ever met.

If you like his views on religion you might try The Screwtape Letters or Mere Christianity, both by Lewis.

The Screwtape Letters is a series of letters from a demon to his nephew, talking about how to lead men to their vices, etc. Mere Christianity is sort of a noncontroversial attempt at Chrisitan apolgetics.


On topic: I really liked The Chronicles of Narnia. They were some of my favorite books when I was little, and maybe that's part of why I liked the movie, nostalgia. But I know that's not all of it, I just thought it was a great film. Not too gory or actiony, so it's still suitable for little kids, though the part with the table could be a little scary, but it's also got enough adult elements to satisfy the older audience.

I hope they're planning to continue the series. A few of the books are a little heavy-handed in the Christian undertones, but I don't imagine the modern movie making machine would translate them instead of just ripping them out anyway. After all, look at what they're doing to the His Dark Materials movies.

Had to edit it to fix the tags, I'm too used to GFAQs>_>

This post was edited by Poopington on Nov 3 2006 01:43pm

how is this junior highschool lol? the book is easily read within a week... and it stars little kids :/

I actually dont remember the book although I know that I read it when I was younger. The movie I thought was great..Riding a polar bear into battle was kick. But i like the movie (actually own it) but the book from all i remember was good. They are also making a new movie based of the second book of narnia. I believe it is the return to narnia

CS lewis is recognized as a literary master far before th LW&R. read some of his works and youll agree. and yes there are christian values undertones in the book, but as an athiest it doesnt bother me and i dont see why it should bother anyone.

I saw both moveis but never read the books.

Yo i have never read it, but i must say the movie is quite nice. Sometimes the movie is not even like what the point of view of what the book has. So yea i might read it, but man the movie.. well if you have saw it. Tell me if the movie is like the book.

All of the books were great, but I really liked The Last Battle and The Magician's Nephew. Also, he didn't ask anything about the movie, so don't rag on it...

The books are beautiful. I read them as a kid and now I am reading them to my own kids

My favourite was the Magician's nephew.

My kids loved the movie but tbh I thought it was disappointing. It seemed very short to me and lacking in key elements. I think they took too much out and it just didn't capture the true essence of the books for me. To be fair to the film though anything crashed and burned after LOTR.

I agree that CS Lewis is a very provocative christian writer ... one of a kind imho!

the 4 in the series was all they had when i was in school there good read