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I read all 7 books.

I didn't really care for most of them

wackyteen posted...

I didn't really carry for most of them

Neither did the kids, which probably would have made their lives easier.

I read them all when I was young enough to not realize they were a big christian parable. Finding out that they were a giant Author Tract was when I became an adult. :(

Read most, watched all movies and BBC miniseries. It's funny how some have been adapted multiple times now and others never.

Justin2Krelian posted...

Read most, watched all movies and BBC miniseries. It's funny how some have been adapted multiple times now and others never.

I'm not sure all would make for entertaining movies. 3-6 episode TV/streaming series maybe

I read all, only liked the first one. Thought he got too preachy in the others. The first was the most like a straight up fairy tale, even with the Christian message.

I think I read 5 or 6 of them.

I really liked some old TV version of it from like the 80s when I was going. The Diseny movies did little for me.

I read them all.

Read none, watched none

I read the first one because I had to in elementary school then I watched the movie a year or two later never followed the series after that.

I read the Screwtape Letters at one point

I did... Can't remember fuck all about them but I know I did as a kid

No. I was an atheist that knew Azlan was a blatant Jesus allegory (allegory really isnt even a strong enough word for it) before it was an option. I did watch the first movie though.

I started from The Silver Chair. That really colored how I looked at the rest of them.

By the way, I highly recommend reading Lewis' Till We Have Faces. It's his retelling of the myth of Cupid and Psyche, and of course it has a Christian message but it's a lot more subtle and mature about it than his Narnia books. I never found it distracting, annoying, or an interruption to the story.

none, none

I got to the one about a horse (I think) and stopped.

Never read the books. Watched that one animated movie from way way back when.

Justin2Krelian posted...

It's funny how some have been adapted multiple times now and others never.

I know, why the fuck they never make it to The Magician's Nephew? Even now, with multiverse shit being all the rage!

Read none watched 2. Two variations of the first story. The first live action one by Disney and the animated on from the 70s which incidentally aired in the 90s on Disney Channel.

I read magician's nephew, lion witch & wardrobe, and then got really bored of whatever the 3rd book is (the horse one?) and dropped it and never came back. I kinda remember magician's nephew being way shorter than the other two but it was so long ago I have no idea

never watched any of the movies

I feel like both the Narnia books and the wizard of Oz books were children's books for a much different era, like dustbowl era children or something. Like they were for a specific century and point in time that would not hold up well.

I did want to read the book when I was a kid, does that count for something. I liked the cartoon so. But if you had told kid me that there were 7 books not just lion witch wardrobe then hoo boy

read them all multiple times. Didn't know they were a christian allegory until later, I wasn't raised as christian.

I don't think I watched any of the movies.

Yes but I really dont know why, I didnt enjoy them lol

Read none, watched the BBC series multiple times.

Saw a movie, didnt care to have anything to do with the series after seeing it.

Pretty sure I read them all. The thing that happened in the last (I think) book bothered me.

Read them all growing up and loved them. My parents bought me the big ass paperback collection. One big ass book lol we were catholic but I don't think they knew it was a Christian allegory.

Still, I remember those books fondly. Would be interesting to read them again. The first book in particular was the shit.

Never read the books. Seen the whole miniseries (went on a nostalgia binge and rewatched them all again 2 or 3 months ago) and the Disney remakes. Never seen the old animated movie, though.

The miniseries was kinda funny, now. Whenever they needed a female antagonist, they had the exact same woman behave in the exact same loud, foppy, bi-polar manner.

Read The Magician's Nephew and watched 2 of the movies.

I definitely read Lion Witch and the Wardrobe in Elementary school in the 90s. I think I probably read one or two of the other ones, but I cant remember.

Never watched any of the movies.

Yeah.

Didn't really enjoy any of the ones after Silver Chair (in release order).

There's a reason that both attempts to bring the saga to the screen fizzle out halfway through the series. It's because the back half is utter toss.

Read none, watched none

Read them all twice. My ranking changed a lot when I was older. The good ones are LWW, Magicians Nephew, and The Horse and His Boy.

i don't remember the plot of The Silver Chair at all...

i read all of them back when i was growing up in a christian household

Read one in school, liked it, but then I discovered Harry Potter.

I actually encountered these books a lot in elementary and middle school, but I never even knew what LotR was until the movies came out.

I read the books before, though I'm type of person who doesn't pick up on the plot right away... >__>

I think I saw one or two movies. Never read the books. No thanks.

Only the lion the witch and the wardrobe

I think I read them all a long time ago. I definitely have not watched all of the movies

Read them all as a kid

- Loved Lion, Witch, and Wardrobe, like everyone else.

-Thought Prince Caspian was boring as hell. Thought the movie did it way better, when it came out.

-Dawn Treader was the opposite: Loved the book, Thought the movie was totally forgettable.

-To this day, I don't think I could tell you what the hell The Silver Chair was about, or what happened in it.

-Horse and His Boy was fine, but completely pointless

-The Magician's Nephew was an excellent return to form, is my personal favorite, and the one I always wanted a movie for.

-For being about the end of the world, The Last Battle is shockingly forgettable and dull, and is basically only remembered for its last 3 pages.

Magician's Nephew > A Horse and His Boy > Lion, Witch and Wardrobe > Voyage of the Dawn Treader > Prince Caspian > The Last Battle > The Silver Chair, imo.

Pretty neck and neck between Last Battle and Silver Chair, but the latter's just plain forgettable. Last Battle at least has some haunting imagery in the form of Tash.

I feel like I read up to The Magicians Nephew before I got so bored of the books but I honestly cannot remember. I feel like I read The Last Battle though so maybe I read all 7. God damn were they boring. I only read them because I was forced to by my family since they said I played too many video games and didnt read enough books.

Didn't read any of it, but I did listen to either cassette tapes or CD of all 7 books when I was young.