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Summary: All never-ending stories!
Review: You can't read these books just once, you just can't! No matter what age you are! I have loved these books since I was in sixth grade, and I bought the whole set just to read them over and over, which I still do regularly now. I get this yearning feeling wishing it were all true, so that I could go there someday. The way the author writes it makes it so real, the stories feel like they could go on forever! I've seen the earlier videos on TV a long time ago, but I really wish that someone could make them into movies one day, it would be so great!
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Summary: Before Harry Potter!
Review: I have enjoyed these books since I was a young girl. These books have great moral lessons and excite a child's creativity. While reviews of the Harry Potter books say they're almost as good as Chronicles of Narnia - why get those books when you can have the original. Chronicles of Narnia introduce children to the lion Aslan. Aslan is capable of loving, forgiving but is also very just. He's not a "tame lion". These books whisper the love and forgiveness of God. They take a child through the depths of despair and into great hope and rejoicing. I have used "Lion, Witch and the Wardrobe" as a devotional in different Christian camps. These books are an ABSOLUTE MUST.
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Summary: beautiful book, wrong order
Review: The Chronicles of Narnia has long been a staple of literature that people truly enjoy to read. These are wonderfully written stories together in a beautiful book for your coffee table. The pictures amongst the stories are enchanting. The only thing I have against this book is that "Magician's Nephew" is first, when it should start with "The Lion the Whitch and the Wardrobe". If I had read the "Magician's Nephew" first, I might never have loved the series quite as much. Not to say it is bad, but it is more of history of a place you have already been than an introduction to the world. Everyone should read this series.
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Summary: A Roar Of a Lion
Review: One of the most beloved stories of all times.It's sort of hard to forget a talking Lion named Aslan and a spoiled boy named Edmund.This is all great fun to read and to escape the hars of reality from time to time.Soon you will fine you're self floating around the pages and trying to get back to reality.
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Summary: The greatest of children's fantasy
Review: The seven books in the Chronicles of Narnia are undoubtedly among the greatest modern classics for children. I once heard someone say (or read somewhere) that they are among the few stories that one should read three times in one's life: in childhood, in early adulthood, and later in life. Indeed, these fun and colorful tales are worthy of such attention by even the most sophisticated of readers. In each book (except The Horse and His Boy) Lewis chronicles the stories of ordinary British schoolchildren (around the time of WWII and earlier) who inadvertently get transported into a magical land called Narnia, usually via some sort of "ordinary" household item such as a wardrobe, ring, or picture. The first book, The Magician's Nephew, follows two children named Polly and Digory who are enticed to try on a ring crafted by their deranged Uncle who wishes to test his discovery. The children are transported into an intermediate world that serves as a junction for many worlds, including our own. Eventually they enter a world that is just being newly created by a Lion named Aslan. This is Narnia, where animals can talk and time runs fast relative to our world so that whoever enters and then leaves finds that while many years may have past in Narnia, only a perphaps a few minutes have gone by in our world. It is the character of Digory who, in the later books, is the old professor in whose house Peter, Susan, Edmond and Lucy find and enter the magical wardrobe. A host of adventures follow in which the children rid Narnia of an evil witch, help restore the rule of a good king, travel to the bottom of the world, and (my personal favorite) even to the ends of the oceans. The final book, The Last Battle, tells of the end of Narnia. Much has undoubtedly been said or written about the Christian allegory contained in these books and, while young children won't notice, many of the implications are obvious. The first book parallels the book of Genesis in the creation of Narnia by Aslan and its early corruption by the witch. The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe describes a scene representing the crucifixion of Christ, and both the Horse and His Boy and Prince Caspian are meideval adventure stories. At the end of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader it is made blatantly clear that Aslan IS Christ in Narnia, and not merely a representation or figure of similarity. The Silver Chair takes us to a sort of Heaven of Narnia where Aslan and his Father the Emporer reside. The Last battle includes the complete destruction of Narnia with the good passing into Heaven and the bad disappearing forever. The last story is even complete with an evil Ape and his plans to decieve all of Narnia into believing in a false god at the end of days. The end of The Last Battle is glorious and borders on sentimentality, which it probably should given the subject. It's actually refreshing to read a story in which morality is so clear cut and where the author isn't afraid to blatantly inject strongly held (and positive) personal beliefs. Although completely different in style and intent, these books are the equivalent of The Lord of the Rings for young readers and should be kept and cherished as treasures of modern fantasy literature.
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Summary: The Best Series EVER!!!!!
Review: Chronicles of Narnia is one of the best series I have ever read! It's exciting, it's adventurous, it is OUT OF THIS WORLD GOODNESS!!!!!! The story line is one of the best I have ever had the priviledge of reading. The characters just come to life and you get a perfect picture of them in your mind! I really love this series and if you ever think about reading this series I highly recommend it!
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Summary: poor quality paperback
Review: ...The stories are classics as always - but this printing is on below the bar paper and covering material - esp at the asking price...
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Summary: A wonderful series
Review: My mother convinced me to read "The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe" when I was about 6 or 7 years old. She didn't have to convince me to read the rest of the series. It had hooked me. I've read "The Chronicles of Narnia" through several times since then and have enjoyed them more and more with each reading. The stories are filled with colorful characters, including Professor Kirke ("Bless me, what do they teach them at these schools"), his crazy uncle Andrew, Eustace Scrubb, the Pevensie children, and of course Aslan. These books are a wonderful fantasy series, not only for children, but adults as well. The underlying Christian message behind the Narnia series only added to my enjoyment of the books, as did Lewis's occasional witty jab at political correctness (especially in "The Voyage of the Dawn Treader" and "The Silver Chair").
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Summary: A classic, plain and simple
Review: If there was ever a book that was truly a work of art, this is it. I first read this amazing series in my elementary school days, albeit not completely through and the abridged versions. One day not too long ago, I was hungry with nostalgia and added this collection to my wishlist. Low and behold I received it as a present and promptly dropped virtually everything else to bury myself in this book. Almost everything in here brings back memories of childhood and the wonders of fairy tales. I don't know about you but I am the kind of person who develops strong associations between reading and senses. Sometimes I'll be reading a book and I'll think of a beat and realize that I had heard that song years before when I was reading the same passage. Spooky in a sense, Narnia drew upon all my senses and I was brought back to my juvenile days when I didn't have a care in the world. Even now (I've grown up a little) it is wonderful to dream. And that is what Narnia does... it makes you dream of possibilities and what-ifs. I have never been a religious person but the religious undertones of these books never presented a significant problem for me; in fact, I believe that they lend a certain degree of cohesiveness to the story which adds to it's magical qualities. If you've never read this I don't know what to say. It will be an experience and is a great book for any age. If I had the money I'd buy a copy of this book for everyone who wanted one, but alas I'm only a lowly student.
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Summary: Marvelously imaginative, yet ultimately flawed
Review: C.S. Lewis has a marvelous imagination, and paints a vivid picture of the fantastic, yet believable world of Narnia, and its inhabitants, ranging from humans to fauns, witches, talking apes, and a lion who is much more than he appears to be. That said, the books are seriously marred by the author's ham-fisted Christian allegory which intrudes at every turn; one is tempted at times to shake the author by the lapels, saying "Alright, I get it! Aslan is Christ! Now will you just get on with the bloody story already?". This inability of Lewis to decide whether he was writing a fantasy story or a Christian polemic (he even slips in a variation on the (logically fallacious) "Trilemma" from "Mere Christianity" in the first book) ultimately detracts from the work as a whole. One is almost tempted to think that J.R.R. Tolkien was referring to his friend and colleague Lewis when he wrote famously about his own works "I cordially despise allegory in all its forms, and have done so since I grew old enough to detect its presence". I agree with Professor Tolkien, so while the Narnia books do have their charm, be warned that your own tolerance for allegory will be seriously tested.
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