The Chronicles of Narnia

I have just for a second time listened to the 7 books from the Chronicles of Narnia. These books-on-tape were dramatized versions [word-for-word] recorded for Focus on the family and introduced by Douglas Greshem

The Magician's Nephew is probably my favorite of all 7 books.

It has an strange resemblance to Perelandra.

The five main characters are spread across the good/bad spectrum with totally-good Aslan > mostly-good Polly > tugged-both-ways Diggery > mostly-bad uncle > totally-bad witch.

I liked the ideas of the rings and the pools to different worlds.

It was an ingeneous way to set up the remaining 6 wardrobe books.

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe is obviously the base book of the seven chronicles, like Exodus -- the second book -- is the anchor of the five books of the Pentatuch. The professor speaking of Lucy echos the words of Lewis, "She is either lying or crazy or truthful".

There is a sense of continuity vs. discontinuity when the the children in England compare to the children in Narnia. Were the beavers like the Hratha in Perelandra?

I considered the words of Aslan, "Women in war is ugly".

A Horse and His Boy was great. I especially enjoyed the sly appearances of Aslan and his words to the two principle horses and their two principle childen. The separation of the twin princes was interesting.

Prince Caspian was a return to Narnia. I was a bit confused by the four children assuming the roles of adults.

Again, I liked the words of Aslan. They seem to represent the best apologetic. I thought the talking animals and mythic beasts a bit excessive. Bachhus and the bacchanalia seemed to be an odd feature.