The Chronicles of Narnia

Last weekend I bought The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis book on tape at a garage sale for 50 cents. I listened to the first tape, but found that the background music made listening seriously difficult. It has been a long time since I last read the book. It is a book better read, than listened to. It is a very simply told story with some obvious, but not very intrusive Christian allegory. If you ignore the allegory it is a very nice book, and there is no danger of a child reading it and running off to a Christian right cult.

I have the BBC dramatization on tape that is actually a much better production.

I first read the Narnia books when I borrowed them from my friend Jack Shepherd back when I was about 12. He had the whole set in hardcover. He lived at the Missionary College in Upper Nyack; now called Nyack College. I loved all the books. My favorite, though, without a doubt is Voyage of the Dawn Treader. Back when I was 12, my favorite book of the series was A Horse and His Boy, but I haven’t read it in so long that I forget the plot.

The reason that there has been some interest in the Narnia books is that Disney is doing TLTWATW as a movie. The trailer looks very interesting:

http://www.apple.com/trailers/disney/thechroniclesofnarnia/

The actress that plays the white witch looks to be the same one that played the borg queen.

I will probably not see the movie, but since it is a simpler story and more dramatic than the Harry Potter books, it will probably be a classic.

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