About this title: While a false Aslan roams the land, Eustace and Jill must find the true lion. The false Aslan and his cohort the Ape have begun a massive war in Narnia, and Eustace and Jill have been called upon to save the magical land.
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"These books are meant to be Christian literature, but they only resemble Biblical stories in very superficial ways. In order to get from Biblical stories to the Chronicles of Narnia, you have to remove all the horrible details, like God commanding 'every living thing that breathes' to be killed in Jericho, and you have to add a good deal of charisma and nobility. For instance, you wouldn't see Prince Caspian whoring his wife out. That's just not something he would do. However, that is exactly what Abraham did to Sara, when they had to cross Egypt (he knew the pharoah would want his wife, and yet chose to go anyway. Telling Sara to lie about their marital status doesn't make Abraham a hero--it makes him a pimp). If Prince Caspian was given such a choice, he would have fought the pharoah and won, he would have gone through some horrible trials as he went around Egypt, or he wouldn't have gone at all, and the God that had commanded him to go would have learned a lesson.
As books go, they're fast reads and cute, but they don't belong in Christian literature."
"A dismayingly poor conclusion to the series... I honestly don't understand why a fair number of people apparently like it. (I believe it even won some kind of award). The writing is flat and uninspired compared to the earlier volumes, and the preaching has completely taken over the narrative. Oddly enough, a lot of it also comes across as extremely immoral. Let's not even get into the question of whether the treatment of the Calormenes and their god Tash is racist or bigoted. The thing that really annoys me is the way that foolish, deluded Puzzle, who acts as front man in a religious coup by agreeing to don the lion skin and impersonate Aslan, is somehow given a free pass. Why, exactly? He was only obeying orders? It seems to me that this is reductio ad absurdum, taking the notion of Christian forgiveness to its logical and extremely nasty conclusion, and I still have no idea what C.S. Lewis thought he was doing. If George W. Bush could read, he would probably find this book rather comforting."
"Wow, talk about a cool book about times right before the millenium - symbolically of course, but CS Lewis talks of faith here and I want to read this again just to grasp the idea that our development of our faith is up to us and no one, not even Christ can just give us faith. Oh how Aslan wants to let everyone have a feast, but we see that there are those that can't see that the feast is there - but see something else or their faith limits them so they can't see beyond what their physical eyes can see. This makes me think of the brother of Jared and his faith that was so great that Christ said to behold Him and His body was shown to him and COULD NOT BE WITHHELD from the brother of Jared because his faith was so great. That is my dream - to have my faith someday turned into a perfect knowledge. I have a lot to work on I guess. This book rocks."
"This was a FABULOUS ending to the series! I love the very last page...the idea that this whole series was just the title and cover page and that their real story is just beginning with Aslan in Narnia. It was the perfect ending and was an inspiring, spiritual ending. I love how Narnia is portrayed and can picture its great beauty in my mind. I have really fallen in love with this series and am so glad that I read them. Fantasy is such a great genre to open your mind to new heights and wonders."
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