The Chronicles of Narnia: Boxed Set
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I've bought two boxed sets of C S Lewis' Narnia Chronicles in my life and (I think) had one bought for me... I certainly had all the books when I was a child, but I have no idea what happened to them. And, indeed, they may not have been in a box. But I digress ... The first set I bought was for my daughter when she was small, and the second a few years ago, from Amazon, for myself.
that last set sat on the bookshelves, unopened, until we catalogued all the books last year, when I did at least rip the cellophane off them. I hadn't read them myself for over about 35 years, probably, and I decided to do so over the recent late December holiday period.
I'm sure I bought them from Amazon UK, and was somewhat irritated to find that it is a US printing - odd typefaces, spelling USAnianised in places, and very badly proofread / typeset, with paragraphs repeating themselves in places. My box also doesn't hae this rather ferocious lion on it!
I had remembered the the stories with much fondness - religious allegory and all - after all, I'm a convent girl, and I can brush religious allegory aside when need be. I was really looking forward to them, but oh *dear*. The Xian stuff reads to me now as though it's been shovelled on with a JCB, and the whole middle class mores jarred horribly. And the stories themselves are really quite light in most respects. I was actually pleased to finish the last one this morning - I was determined to get through them, but it was tough work.
I doubt I'll read them again, and I'll wait for LWW on DVD, I think.- and might not even bother then.
