Finished The Magician's Nephew by C. S. Lewis. I missed a whole day of reading, so I thought I'd do this small, quick book instead. I really enjoyed it :-) But I always do love Narnia books. My review is zanix in What Are You Reading Now? : The Clunkers of 2008 (Dec 14, 2008, 3:51am)... on every level; Factotum crosses the line for a confessional (murder and fake orgies); White Jazz Knucks. Jab. Toss; The Chronicles of Narnia - can we say deus-ex machina? not to mention HE KILLS THE CHILDREN!; and Uncle Don must be paying for somebody's new braces with The Body Artist ( ...
... by Junot Diaz
4. People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
5. A Holiday for Murder by Agatha Christie
6. The Magician's Nephew by C. S. Lewis
7. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis
8. In the Woods by Tana French
9. On Writing: A Memoir of ...
... been rather hard to find: Till We Have Faces. Has anyone else enjoyed that one?
According to Folio 60, I see The Chronicles of Narnia and Sagittarius Rising, both of which I've seen offered on eBay. I think that all of the titles that we've listed would sell well, just as they ...
... # 5 Boris: The Screwtape Letters is far more subtle in its methods of presenting the conflict between God and Satan than The Narnia Chronicles and is, as you say, a very different type of book. It is not fantasy, and in fact, is coldly serious. It's approach is unique among his writings that I ...
Many thanks for the replies, guys.
The reason I was (and still a bit am) hesitant is because my experience with the Narnia books was not so good. I did not know anything about CS Lewis when I took it up, and was just expecting a good fantasy tale; I felt then a bit tricked (or manipulated) by ...
... good bits, but it mostly, it annoys me. The Horse and His Boy, although I didn't like it so much when I was small, like The Magician's Nephew, now I'm older, it's actually one of the ones I prefer. Funny how we change as we get older...
You've reminded me about the audiobooks I've been ...
... books
Ramona the Pest
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
White Fang
The Chronicles of Narnia
The Prydain series
Watership Down
The Xanth series
The M.Y.T.H. Adventure series
The Unicorn Creed
Those are the ones I remember ...
... Pulman
5. The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
6. The Emerald City of Oz by L. Frank Baum
7. The Magician's Nephew by C.S. Lewis
8. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
9. The Horse and His Boy by C.S. Lewis
Completed 7/28/09
... Authors - COMPLETED
1. One Fifth Avenue by Candace Bushnell FINISHED JAN 17
2. Chronicles of Narnia: The Magician's Nephew by C.S. Lewis FINISHED FEB 7
3. Naked in Death by J.D. Robb FINISHED MAR 23
4.
Young adult reads for an older adult to enjoy (COMPLETED)
1. The Magician's Nephew - CS Lewis (8/28/09)
2. The Horse and His Boy - CS Lewis (9/2/09)
3. Prince Caspian - CS Lewis (9/5/09)
4. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader - CS Lewis (10/8/09)
5 ...
The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner
The King of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner
The Magician's Nephew by C. S. Lewis
The Alchemist by Michael Scott
So you want to be a Wizard by Diane Duane
not very original. =D oh well.
Mr. Pipes and the British Hymn Makers were Running out of Time to cross Beyond the Valley of Thorns in order to save The Magician's Nephew from The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. They succeeded of course.
That's fun! I didn't know you could do that!
... and took these title off my wishlist and added them to my TBR list:
Anna Karenina
You Suck: A Love Story
Jester
The Chronicles of Narnia
White Oleander
Alice in Wonderland
Through the Looking Glass
Needful Things
Oliver Twist
Bitter Blood
Alanna: The First Adventur ...
... Sky - Kirby Larson - Read
7. The Jungle Book - Rudyard Kipling
8. The Boy with the Bronze Axe - Kathleen Fidler
9. The Magicians Nephew - CS Lewis
... The Challenge : The Classic Work on Improving Parent-Child Relations--Intelligent, Humane & Eminently Practica
The Magician's Nephew (The Chronicles of Narnia)
Prince Caspian (Narnia)
The Silver Chair
The Last Battle
The Egg and Other Stories (Penguin Twentieth-Century Cla ...
I recently added copies of A Swiftly Tilting Planet (an old fave) and C.S. Lewis' The Magician's Nephew if anyone happens not to have them and wants them.
And WOW on the NASCAR romances. I was surprised too!
fey
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The Five People You Meet in Heaven was good too
The Famous Five series when I was a kid was good too
The Chronicles of Narnia Tv Series when I was young was excellent
Arabian Nights was good too.
There were a few Hallmark productions that went well as well. Just ...
... some of the really awful Christian books for children from my church library when I was young, but for years I really loved the Chronicles of Narnia--even as an adult. Don't think I've ever read any adult Christian novels, unless you count Gilead.
Just started C.S. Lewis' The Horse and His Boy, the third book of The Chronicles of Narnia. Enjoyed the first two but still not much of a fantasy fan.
#1 AMQS
Obviously I just found your list and haven't read it yet--but the answer to including books like the Narnia series, Harry Potter, etc, I include them in my reading journal. YA type books are often read by as many adults as children and teens. Some of them I consider great ...
... The Book Thief, I Am the Messenger, Elantris, Mistborn, From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, The Chronicles of Narnia, The Great Divorce, The Hobbit, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, The Princess Bride… the list goes on, but I'm going to stop ...
... Blue Castle. A Rose for Pinkerton. A Midsummer Night's Dream. A Christmas Carol. The Lord of the Rings trilogy. The Chronicles of Narnia. Dealing with Dragons. The Thief. Rose in Bloom. . . . You know what? Maybe you should just go look at my library.
Favorite Movie: Let ...
... description of his own life in the front of the Penguin Classic Crime paperback.
About half way through C.S. Lewis' The Magician's Nephew the first in seven volumes of The Chronicles of Narnia. Not much of a fantasy fan so I haven't read these before. I like C.S. Lewis' other ...
I'm currently reading Nightrise.
Recently I've finished The Magician's Nephew, Kitty at St. Clare's, Pagan's Crusade, Wild Magic and Wolf-speaker. I'm loving Tamora Pearce right now.
... I do all year, but there are definitely some books that I like enough to revisit, including The Lord of the Rings, The Chronicles of Narnia, Pride and Prejudice, Fruits Basket, To Kill a Mockingbird, and more. I've sometimes reread a series when the new book was coming out and I ...
... once in a while--not just for the romance but because of what it says about women and the importance of their work)
The Chronicles of Narnia (since college)
#63 jfetting--Two of yours are on my list; the other two are ones that I keep thinking I should read but am afraid I'll be ...
... Funke
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff by Christopher Moore
The Other Boleyn Girl by Phillipa Gregory
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
60. The Magician's Nephew (The Chronicles of Narnia) by C. S. Lewis
Rating 1/5
61. The Da-Da-De-Da-Da Code by Robert Rankin
Rating 4/5
62. The Last Battle by C. S. Lewis
Rating 1/5
63. The Secret - Das Geheimnis (Arkana) by Rhonda Byrne
Rating 4/5
...
... that each book stands alone. One doesn't have to read the series in order to under stand what happens in each book. The Narnia books will also allow reading out of order, but you get a little lost.
Yet books by Kevin Anderson in his Seven Suns series, if read out of order are confusing ...
What about The Magician's Nephew by C.S. Lewis. Time passes in Narnia, but when they return to our world hardly any time has passed.
What about The Magician's Nephew by C.S. Lewis. Time passes in Narnia, but when they return to our world hardly any time has passed.
... Oswald by Roald Dahl
James in the House of Aunt Prudence by Timothy Bush
Granny's Wonderful Chair by Frances Browne
The Magician's Nephew by C.S. Lewis
Her Father's Daughter by Gene Stratton Porter
... 12, so I don't have it yet, but I will soon! :)
Laia, I definitely prefer the original publication order. If you read The Magician's Nephew first there is no magic and wonder about Narnia when the kids first arrive there!
... At times he takes the apologetic bent, but mostly he is writing on how best to exhibit Christian virtues.
While The Chronicles of Narnia had its snarky moments, mostly against modern education, for the most part it offered an enticing and reasonable vision of what the Christian life ...
... Conan The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
11 june Cheetham, Anthony Science against man
14 june Lewis, C.S. The Magician's Nephew
15 june Lewis, C.S. The Lion, the witch and the wardrobe
18 june The horse and his boy
20 june prince caspian
22 june the voyage of the dawn ...
... of the year:
Extra Credit: Series and Sequels {complete}
1. The Complete Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling
2. The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
3. A Modern Comedy and End of the Chapter by John Galsworthy
4. The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster
5. The Night Trilogy ...
... starts during every other lunch break - I really need to pick my lunchtime books better I think!
42) C. S. Lewis - The Magician's Nephew and
43) C. S. Lewis - The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe
Re-read these (and will re-read the rest) as I recently went to see the new film ...
... starts during every other lunch break - I really need to pick my lunchtime books better I think!
42) C. S. Lewis - The Magician's Nephew and
43) C. S. Lewis - The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe
Re-read these (and will re-read the rest) as I recently went to see the new film ...
... just a wee bairn. I had the damned thing memorized by the time I was three. I'd call her out if she tried to skip parts.
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis. I've read 'em more than twenty times.
The rest of The Chronicles of Prydain. They have their faults, but they mean so, so ...
... heard about the HP series and its contents makes me believe that it's a dumbed-down version of The Lord of the Rings and The Chronicles of Narnia, from which JK Rowling seems to have liberally borrowed.
Third, I find the terminology and lingo to be nauseatingly twee (Muggles? Dumbledore? ...
... earliest to the most recent:
Serendipity by Stephen Cosgrove
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Bloom
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
The Dark is Rising series by Susan Cooper
Watership Down by Richard Adams
The Xanth Series by Piers Anthony
...
... bad example to give. Maybe the Foundation or Dune or Pern would have been better since they get complicated or even Narnia
When I did my Access Database I put a field for series and used the intitial letters as an Acronym plus a number eg HP1, I have used Discaa to Discbd for the ...
... the Japanese Occupation.
In poetry, consider Langston Hughes's The Dream Keeper and Other Poems.
In fantasy, The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis, and in science fiction, the brilliant story about a boy sold in slavery who grows to become one of the galaxy's strongest ...
Therese Raquin **½
by Emile Zola
06/27/08
The Magician's Nephew *
by C.S. Lewis
06/27/08
Utopia (#135) ***
by Thomas More
06/27/08
The Wild Geese ****½
by Ogai Mori
06/28/08
The Silver Spoon ***
by John Galsworthy
06/29/08
Rashomon and Other Stories ***½
by ...
... by Coetzee
Never Let Me Go by Ishiguro
The Secret Agent by Conrad
Worst of:
The Body Artist by DeLillo
The Chronicles of Narnia by Lewis
... series The Gunslinger is seen as his best work. I think it's as good as any fantasy series available, even next to Narnia or Lord of the Rings. It combines apocolyptic type fantasy with the gritty western genre. The first in the series is short and readable in one sitting but the ...
... like Harry Potter, The Dark Tower, Anne Rice's The Vampire Chronicles, Tales Of The New Vampires,or the C.S. Lewis Narnia Series, Tolkien's Lord Of The Rings Trilogy, etc. I just prefer to have everything nice and neat in alphabetical order as a rule.
beatles1964
... that nobody's mentioned that, but maybe most of our strange sequences apply to completely published series (such as The Chronicles of Narnia)
Actually I was just wondering that.
TNP has read CS Lewis' The Chronicles of Narnia.
In The Magician's Nephew, when Jadis is walking with the two kids through the collapsing building. Even though ten-ton pillars are falling inches away from them, she never flinches, just keeps walking. I know she's an evil beeyatch and it's good when she finally gets cancelled, but there's ...
... so far I've read new moon, eclipse, the host (wow, stephanie meyer books have started to touchstone) and reread the chronicles of narnia and am currently reading animal farm and inkheart. I haven't really decided what I'm going to read next, mostly because I plan to read many ...
... J. R. R. Tolkien
The Attolia series by Megan Whalen Turner (The Thief, The Queen of Attolia, The King of Attolia)
The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis. I had sections of these memorized.
The Hero and the Crown and The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley
The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula ...
since last I posted I reached the magician's nephew in my chronicles of narnia reread, and read the book after that
... the Cherry Ames books?) by Helen Wells
Army Boys in France by Homer Randall
The Minister's Daughter by Julie Hearn
The Magician's Nephew by C.S. Lewis
The Knight Before Dawn by Mary Pope Osborne
... Laymon
3 - Thr3e - Ted Dekker
4 - I'm the Vampire That's Why - Michele Bardsley
5 - The Woods - Harlan Coben
6 - The Magician's Nephew - CS Lewis
7 - Keepsake Crimes - Laura Childs
8 - Good In Bed - Jennifer Weiner
9 - The Bride Wore Chocolate - Shirley Jump
Heather
Book M ...
I picked up The Magicians Nephew, The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis and Garlic and Sapphires by Ruth Reichl on the half price table at Barnes and Noble.
... and I could only take ONE BOOK with me. So getting to choose twelve books is a relief. Mine would be:
The NIV Bible
The Magician's Nephew
The Borrowers Afield
Pride and Prejudice
Cheaper By the Dozen
An Ordinary Princess
An Old Fashioned Girl
Watership Down
Dragon's ...
April 19, 2008
#22 The Magician's Nephew by C.S. Lewis
Well, this was obviously a reread, and I could tell the whole time. I don't know how many times I have read this book, but it is just torn up, but I love it like that.
Anyway, I enjoyed as much as usual. I read it in 2 days. I am going to ...
... Rowling *
40. Specials by Scott Westerfeld
41. The Horse and His Boy by C.S. Lewis *
42. The Magician's Nephew by C.S. Lewis *
43. Rococo by Adriana Trigiani
44. Summer Blowout by Claire Cook
45. Fragile Heritage by ...
The Magician's Nephew, although now that I am into it I realize that I have read it before. You have no idea how often this actually happens.
33. The magician's nephew by C.S. Lewis. Very cute, very entertaining book that I believe most adults will enjoy just as much as children.
49. and 50. The Magician's Nephew and Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis
I was ill, so, with fuzzy brain and wobbly eyes I retreated into comfort reading between the long snoozes of scary dreams. I know these are awfully heavy-handed, but it's so hard not be be hugely fond ...
The Magician's Nephew
23. Continuing through my Narnia re-read with my eight year old daughter, tonight we finished The Magician's Nephew, which offered a few clever links to the earlier books, but was definitely not amongst the best books in the series.
The Magician's Nephew! The opening line that I love from that series is from The Voyage of the Dawn Treader: "There once was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it." (I figured posting it now for people to guess would be too easy, but it definitely deserves a mention!)
14. A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
15. The Magician's Nephew by C.S. Lewis
... 1, 2008:
The Widow of the South by Robert Hicks
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis
The Magician's Nephew by C. S. Lewis
Pushing Up Daisies by Rosemary Harris
They Came Like Swallows by William Blake
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
...
I read The Magician's Nephew first. Then The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. That's the way it came in the set which we bought a few years ago. I thought TMN was the weakest of all the books. I read the books after I saw the movie. I'm so glad Prince Caspian is going to be a movie. I read ...
I like the publication order better. If you read The Magician's Nephew first, I think it spoils the wonderful moment when Lucy steps through the wardrobe in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. I haven't bought a new set of the books for this very reason. I'll hold out until I can find a ...
43) The Last Apprentice revenge of the witch
44) The Magicians nephew
...
#35-Speaking of horses, how about Death's horse "Binky" from Discworld?
As for a device, how about the magic rings from The Magician's Nephew?
... Jan.
The Silver Chair Feb.
The Horse and His Boy Feb.
The Magician's Nephew Mar.
The Last Battle Apr.
The Screwtape Letters
Finished:
A Wrinkle in Time
Noughts and Crosses {+ An Eye for an Eye}
The Magician's Nephew
Reading:
The rest of BattleAxe
After:
The Declaration, by Gemma Malley
... honors thesis on the medieval and modern in Middle-earth. He was very readable! Good stuff.
You're leading a group on The Magician's Nephew? That's awesome! Have you ever been to www.NarniaWeb.com? I'm a moderator there and I am going to be co-leading a group on The Horse and His Boy ...
... Myth by Bradley Birzer. I am enjoying all of them right now. Oh, I'm also re-reading (for about the 7th time) The Magician's Nephew as I'm leading a daily discussion on each chapter this week with my online reading group. I never log my re-reads, though.
...
Y: The Last Man - Unmanned by Brian K. Vaughan ***1/2
Audiobooks:
The Prestige by Christopher Priest ****
The Magician's Nephew by C. S. Lewis ****
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger ****1/2
Read with my son:
Ellen Tebbits by Beverly Cleary ****
...
Now listening to The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe read by Michael York. I prefer Kenneth Branagh reading The Magician's Nephew better but still a good 'reread'. I remember my fourth grade teacher reading this to us and then I read it myself right after.
... the Witch and the Wardrobe, read by Michael York. I don't enjoy listening to him as much as I did Kenneth Branagh read The Magician's Nephew.
I'm also about 100 pages into Banewreaker by Jacqueline Carey. This is a little slow going for me. I like the premise (a take on Lord of ...
Finished The Magician's Nephew which was a fun 'reread'.
Last night I started The Time Traveller's Wife before bed and I was wowed! What a great story, and I like how it is told by two readers, one reading for Clare and one reading for Henry. I was only going to listen a little to go to ...
... than the movie and I actually had to pause five minutes from the end to let my heart calm down.
Now listening to The Magician's Nephew read by Kenneth Branagh which I tried rereading recently but couldn't get into. Listening to it is much better and Branagh has some great voices.
September 2007
#41 The Magician's Nephew - CS Lewis
#42 While the Sun Shines - John Harding
#43 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
#44 The Radiant Way - Margaret Drabble
#45 The Horse and His Boy - CS Lewis
#46 The Lesson of Her Death - Jeffery Deaver
#47 Michael Tol ...
23. The Magician's Nephew by C.S. Lewis
24. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis.
I got a very nice boxed set of the Chronicles of Narnia for my birthday this summer, and finally got a chance to start reading them. They really are fabulous books, and quite quick reads. I'm ...
I love The Magician's Nephew it's one of the ones I visit over and over again.
I like what suge said, about reading books over again to visit old friends. I love some of my familiar old books, I even have ones from when I was seven that I won't throw away (a disney series I love)
... I'm fond of!
Going back to the original quote, I do love the image of a library as "the wood between the worlds" from The Magician's Nephew. I can so see that, with each book containing its own world, and you can slip into them so easily, just by pulling one from the shelf and opening the ...
... global series would work side-by-side (more on this later)
== Multiple series example
I could see the info page for The Magician's Nephew having two series links: Narnia story chronology (1), Narnia publishing history (7)
Clicking on either link would take you to a list with the Narnia ...
... the Telmarines in Prince Caspian and the White Witch and her allies in The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe (and in The Magician's Nephew) fit that description as well. Sorry, it seems to me you're reading too much into Lewis's portrayal. (Yes, I read your review as well.)
... would there have to be an ordering? Couldn't there be more of an abstract connection? Similar to Author works, couldn't The Magicians' Nephew just be a part of 'The Chronicles of Narnia' series and not need an ordering?
Maybe that's how collections might work?
Just my thoughts
#4 - why not children's books?
the only book character that ever had me really scared was the White Witch - but from The Magician's Nephew rather than the later books...
... I wasn’t aware that Animal farm is folklore. I was never any good in geography, but now I know that Lolita and The Magician’s Nephew and The Hobbit are happening in Ireland. It’s nice to know that The Lord of the rings and Secret garden are memoirs. Of course, The Stranger ...
... I wasn’t aware that Animal farm is folklore. I was never any good in geography, but now I know that Lolita and The Magician’s Nephew and The Hobbit are happening in Ireland. It’s nice to know that The Lord of the rings and Secret garden are memoirs. Of course, The Stranger ...
Gaaaah! I'm sooooooooo behind!! I hate it when life gets in the way of reading. ;)
Book #22
Title: The Magician's Nephew
Author: C.S. Lewis
Book #23
Title: A Thousand Splendid Suns
Author: Khaled Hosseini
Book #24
Title: For One More Day
Author: Mitch Albom
Book ...
... Enchanted Castle was so then I was off to read all the works of E. Nesbit. I couldn't believe my luck the day I found The Magician's Nephew on a shelf and devoured it. I read lots of Oz books in third and fourth grade by L. Frank Baum but also others by Ruth Plumly Thompson and J ...
... striking and believable than his resurrection. I preferred some of the other books in the series: my favorite was probably The Magician's Nephew, with the sinister uncle and the world-between-the-worlds with its multiple portals.
Another interesting comparison might be the Grimm's Fairy Tale ...
1. Wicked
2. The Wizard of Oz
3. The Magician's Nephew
4. The Last Battle
Now reading The Fairy-Tale Detectives by Michael Buckley.
Finished The Wizard of Oz. Now hoping to finish up the Narnia series with The Magician's Nephew and The Last Battle.
My Favorites are Sherman Oak and the Magic Potato, and The Santa Mysteries :), written by me. I also love The Magician's Nephew, and the Wizard of Oz.
... series many times when I was younger. I don't know if they would have the same appeal to me now. I was going to reread The Magician's Nephew recently, but the first couple of pages didn't grab me fast enough and I had a library book I needed to read and return anyway. I'll try again ...
... important for preserving some of the wonder of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, but also in part because The Magician's Nephew just isn't as strong as some of the other ones. (My apologies if you've already read these two, as I see now that they aren't on your list). Thus, ...
... Jones and add three superb Australian writers: Garth Nix (Sabriel, Lirael and Abhorsen), Trudi Canavan (The Magician's Guild et al, The Priestess of the White et al) and Alison Croggon (The Gift, The Riddle, The Crow and continuing). I see that touchstones is ...
... fantasy lately to know, but what are some of the origin theories in some of your favorites? I know the Silmarillion and The Magician's Nephew have a creator singing the world into being. Is that a coincidence do you think? Or did the Inklings have some discussions round their fire and come ...
... Pratchett
9. The Ogre Downstairs by Diana Wynne Jones
10. Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
11. The Magician's Nephew by C. S. Lewis
12. A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin
13. The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula Le Guin
14. The Farthest Shore by Urs ...
... hasn't out right said so, and I'm about halfway through. Otherwise I'm enjoying it well enough. Actually, more so than The Magician's Nephew which I read as a kid and had decided to reread. I ended up putting it down after a couple of pages and never got back to it.
Well its an idea:^) so where does the magician's nephew fit into the Narnia series?
Simon
... of Idiocy, too. The statistics problem should be known by now.
Mark the Show all users on the very same The Magician's Nephew book page is showing an (overwhelming) list of about 1,200 users owning the book. The latter seems good.
...
#32 The Magician's Nephew by C.S. Lewis
