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Summary: Lovely! Wonderful! Superb!
Review: C. S. Lewis' books about Narnia are some of the best books ever written!
"The Magician's Nephew" tells about the creation of Narnia, so I recommend that you start from here and read all of the books in the series. You won't regret it!
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Summary: superb book
Review: This is a very good book.
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Summary: The Magicians Nephew
Review: That was the best book I've ever read!
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Summary: This is the most wonderful book I have ever read
Review: my fifth grade teacher read the class this book and the minute he was done with the book the whole class got permission from the principle of our school and then went to the public library on a feild trip so we could all get a copy fo this wonderful book
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Summary: Not #1 in Narnia!
Review: This is a particularly poignant book, as far as the Narnian tales go, and I recommend ALL of them highly. But I must express my strongly held opinion in this regard: this is NOT the first of the Narnia series and readers shouldn't start here. I understand why the publisher, considering the chronology of Narnia, decided to put this one first. But I don't believe Jack would have allowed it and instead would have asked people to start reading Narnia with "The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe" - the book he wrote first and the one which introduces the fundamentals of this created world.
For those of you who started with "The Magician's Nephew," I encourage you --next time you read the series (and they re-read so well!)-- to read them in the written order. Paul Ford, author of "Companion to Narnia" and guest of honor at the 1998 C.S.Lewis Centenary in Wheaton, Illinois, shares this opinion - I am not alone!!!
-- Lynn Maudlin --
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Summary: A beautiful allegory about creation
Review: This is one of the books that I read to my first grade class every year. The symbolism is amazing and the word pictures are unique to the mind of C.S. Lewis. Please don't deprive yourself of this unforgettable experience. Read this book
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Summary: A beautiful book that people of all ages should read.
Review: Though this book was originally written for small children, I began reading the entire Narnia series at the age of 12. A teacher recommended that I read The Magicians Nephew first because it shows how Narnia was created and explains how Jadis the Queen comes to the peaceful land.
The story begins with a friendship being formed between two children, Polly and Digory. Digory has been staying with his Aunt and Uncle because of his ill mother who needs to be taken care of. Being completely bored, he climbs over his wall on day and meets the girl who lives next door. Digory tells Polly how his Uncle is a crazy magician. They decided to crawl through some raftors that connect Polly and Digory's houses. Unfortunatley, they stumble into the secret labratory of Digory's uncle. He traps them and, before they can do anything, gives them rings
( green for going and yellow for coming back )and sends them off into a different world. Finding themselves surrounded by pools, they decide to jump into one to see what would happen. But by doing that, they awaken Jadis the Queen, who they accidentaly bring back with them to London. She immediatley goes off and runs a muck downtown. Trying to get her back to her own world, they put on their rings. But, once again, luck was not with them. They had accidentaley brought with them a cabby with his horse and the Magician.
Once they are in the world with all of the pools, they go into the wrong pool; a.k.a. Narnia. They then wittness the creation of Narnia where animals can talk.
It is a beautiful story that I stayed up half the night finishing. I just wish that more people can read this book. The creation of Narnia is very much like the scene in the Bible where God creates the world and all of it's creatures.
Yes, this is a childrens book, but I truly believe that anyone who reads it will immediatley love it.
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Summary: O.k at times but goes noware
Review: This book goes noware but down.The begging is good and then in the middle goes down ward.It's o.k. at times but fore die hard fantasy fans like Harry Potter stay away.
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Summary: We now return to the beginning. Even earlier, actually.
Review: In this prequel to the Chronicles of Narnia, we get to see everything from the origin of the lamp-post that Lucy encounters upon first entering Narnia to the debut of Aslan, as he grants the animals of Narnia the gift of speech.
I strongly recommend that you not read this book until you have finished the first five volumes in the series. It is good as a stand-alone story, but the real magic is discovering the answers to questions that may have occured to you while reading the other books.
Digory and Polly find themselves in a nexus between worlds, and travel from our world to Narnia and back again. They also venture into other magical worlds, and inadvertently bring trouble home with them in the form of an angry goddess.
Digory is trying to help his sick mother, but also finds other demands being placed on him. As in all of the Narnia stories, great burdens are borne by young children, and only those who are up to the task at hand can find happiness.
This book is every bit as magical as the others, and also brings back a note of familiarity for those who became distressed when the original foursome became less prominnently featured. By returning to its roots, Lewis is able to both play on feelings of nostalgia, and to amaze us with the presentation of a creation myth as it happens.
Any fan of the series will remember this volume fondly, and will likely use this book as a springboard to begin rereading the earlier books. I can't recommend this book, or this series, more highly. It has earned and will continue to earn a palce in the hearts of children, and I can only hope that the upcoming big-budget movie will rejuvenate the series' popularity in the same way that the Lord of the Rings movies generated an interest in that series.
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Summary: The magical story of the Magician's Nephew!
Review: I had never heard about `The Chronicles of Narnia' till some days ago. As I was browsing through Amazon.com Books section, I noticed this wonderful series, and after reading a brief review, immediately purchased the whole set.
"The Magician's Nephew" is the first book in the book, and a wonderful start to the series. The story starts off with Digory and Polly, two children who decide to peek into an abandoned house next to Digory's house. When they accidentally stumble into someone else's room, their adventure into another world begins.
The story of `The Magician's Nephew' is filled with magic and excitement that will make a person of any age interested in it right from the start. C. S. Lewis uses simple words that makes reading the story simple and keeps the reader engrossed in it. The story is fast-paced without a dull moment, and indirectly delivers a profound message in the end that is very thought-provoking.
I am off to read the next book of the series, "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" where I can enter a world where horses can fly, where animals can talk, where life is born and where the excitement never ends. Read this book today and enter the world of Narnia, where you will soon forget about all your worries.
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