There was something missing. The White Witch wasn't seductive enough, Aslan wasn't big enough, or scary at all, and Susan was annoying and pouty. Lucy was perfect though! The cockney beaver reminded me of one of the porters at Robinson.
IS anyone else getting bored of reading Philip Pullman bitching about Narnia? I agree with him that the Last Battle isn't as good as the rest of the Narnia books. Can you think of any other well-known children's writers, whose other-world novels end in one which is nowhere near as good as the others in the series? Can you think of any other well-known writers for children who use their tales of other worlds and magical creatures to communicate what they believe to be true about the nature of spirituality?
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Richard / Website (6.1.06 18:13) Well said. Polly Toynbee's rants about Narnia were just as annoying. But hers were based on a total misapprehension of Christianity and paying very little attention to any of the Narnia story. At least Pullman criticises the Narnia books themselves, rather than going 'It's by a Christian and Christianity is evil so therefore the book is evil. End of.' |