The Chronicles of Narnia Scholastic Box Set (Book One Through Book Six) (edition 1995)

As far as I can remember, these are the first books (not counting all of Bruce Coville's alien adventures) in which I became completely enthralled, and then inspired to search for secret passages in my bedroom closet.

So now whenever I hear Phish's "Prince Caspian" I get a little bit excited. ( )

Books Two and Five are good, the rest are weak and kind of dull. And then Book Seven happens, and lipstick wearing Christians never feel safe again. ( )

I don't actually own the entire series individually, as I was reading this series perviously. My brother does own the entire series published as one -- this collection I'm reading currently. This will be how I complete the series. It's the same exact story, just published all as one. The illustrations are not included, except for 1 illustration at the beginning of the chapter -- not the same.

Prince Caspian 4/18/2013
I am continuously sad as I finish each novel :-( No difference with this one.
I don't know what I'll do when I finish the novel. I will keep reading to find out. I notice, however, that I procrastinate reading so I don't have to finish :-) So sad :-(

May 4, 2013
I just breezed through the rest of the books. There was nothing new I wanted to say about them. They're all awesome, they're all amazing. I cannot decide on a favorite! I just do not have a favorite book ... It's all together awesome :-) I loved it!

I will certainly be rereading this book later in life ( )

This is the second time I've read the series...the third time I've read The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe...it's interesting the things I've picked up on this time around that I just didn't pay attention to before. And I'm not talking the obvious Christian spin...I'm talking about the geographic layout of Narnia and the way the stories intertwine. So far I've finished the first 3 books (if you're reading chronologically) and I'm far more impressed this time around than I was a couple of years ago.

I made it through The Voyage of the Dawn Treader and I have to take a breather. It's so much easier to read the HP books all in a row...these just get tiresome after a while. ( )

I spent my time reading The Chronicles of Narnia since last Sunday. They're a fast, easy read, clearly books for children, but not entirely bad for adults because of it.

I'm not going to go on a detailed description of what I thought of each book, but try to generalize a little.

On the writing style, I was a little annoyed on the way the author kept addressing the reader, but it wasn't a setback. It was also a little annoying how he kept repeating things like you couldn't remember it from two pages back (it's stupid to lock yourself in a closet, things can't be described, etc).

I really enjoyed the first book, while it wasn't the one that had the most adventure in it- I think it was the best of the whole lot and a great introduction. I loved that I could read how Narnia began.

Second and third were really good too, but from there on they began to decline in quality. The next three were okay-ish, while the last one had a decent first half and an ending (or really, from halfway on) that made me go "Er... ok... ?" and put it down with a feeling of a rushed, senseless, pointless ending.

I read somewhere around that this is supposed to be Christian children story, which I guess it's where everyone got that Aslan = Jesus idea, but quite frankly, I didn't see it.
Maybe because I didn't read it from a "Christian point of view.", or I just didn't give a damn about it and took Aslan for what he seems to be: Some kind of random deity from a book. And random deity do things their way, get involved when they want, are good/bad as they are supposed to be, etc. I saw no particular parallel anywhere.


Overall, I think it's a good read for everyone- something all should read at least once, at least the first 6 books; you can most definitely skip the seventh. ( )