The first thing that’s wrong is that I’m a big doofus.
Which is why I didn’t initially catch the second thing, which is that the title is A Horse and His Boy, not The.
The original, published order. I find it fascinating how Lewis tied things together by inventing the connecting circumstances as he went along. It’s part of the charm of the series.
Actually, you were right the first time
Word.
Exactly, you don’t know…there’s this cool house with this cool magic wardrobe. It’s a mystery.
And you try out all the closets in your house, because you’re not British and you don’t really know that a wardrobe is a stand alone thing - and they’ve never worked before, but hey, you never know
And then it goes “click” several books later, and it’s cool because now all the pieces have fallen into place.
Maybe the people who like the bad chronological order are the ones who read the last pages of a book first to make sure their favorite characters will end up ok.
oH.
My bad, then.
Would somebody be good enough to pass me the doofus hat? The extra-colorful one, please.
Definitely not, Max. It takes a high order of suckitude to not only be a bad book, but also to spoil every other book in the series. I cannot read Narnia any more - not because of the writing, or because it’s “too childish”, but because that loathsome and blatant allegory at the end of TLB makes the whole thing feel rancid