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I suppose it wouldn't be a proper internet message board without getting these sort of threads out of the way.
It's been years since I read the series but I remember The Silver Chair as being my favorite. Not sure why, but I must have had a reason for it.
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I know it's odd, but The Horse and His Boy has always been my favourite. It's almost always the least favourite of everyone I've ever talked to, but for some reason I just love it.
I realize that it's pretty much a complete off-shoot from the main plot points, and that really, there's not that much action in it at all, but I think it just strikes me as really thoughtful and symbolic.
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I think I'm gonna have to pick The Last Battle. I've always been really interested in end-of-the-world, Revelations type stuff. It's the only book in the series I've read twice, actually.
Pretty much the only two that I couldn't really consider for the top spot are the Magician's Nephew and Prince Caspian.
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I'm going with LWW only because it's the one I remember best. However, I have a nice little B&N gift certificate that keeps telling me that I want to buy the entire series so I can revisit them properly, and I'm feeling inclined to listen.
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All of the stories are just so different in the terms of their adventures, it's really hard to choose and even harder to justify it through anything but mere personal preference.
After rereading them something like seven or eight years after I first read them, my opinion of The Horse and His Boy really went up; it's probably my second favorite now. But I will always and forever love The Voyage of the Dawn Treader the most. It's just the best of the adventures, and features the best overall cast of characters. Even though Peter and Susan aren't around (I know Susan seems a little lame sometimes, but I find her very interesting), Edmund (whom everyone can't help but love, what a magnificent character sometimes) and Lucy, along with the evolution of Eustace (including his encounters with one of the most inspiring and entertaining characters, Reepicheep), the growing, but grand King Caspian, and a very noble and likable crew and very challenging and captivating "villains", make the book a fun read no matter the situation.
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Voyage of the Dawn Treader. The narration in that book is superb. Eustace Clarence Scrubb "and he almost deserved it." Posts: 11064 | From: Indianapolis, In. | Registered: Jun 1999
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I picked Silver Chair as it was the first Narnia novel i read so it was my in-point to the Chronicles. But i also loved Dawn Treader for it's Homer-esque series of adventures and seafaring. And of course Reepicheep.
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I thinkThe Voyage of the Dawn Treader is best, simply because I like Caspian alot. He's my alltime favorite in the books; I just LOVE him.
If I could pick a second fave, it would be The Last Battle.
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I agree with Krawlie. However it has been some time since I have read the books. I think I was in the 5th grade. I will definatly reread the series before LWW hits the screens.
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I've always like Voyage of the Dawn Treader best. Reepicheep and Eustace have to be two of the most memorable characters in Narnia.
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I was torn between "The Silver Chair" and "The Horse and His Boy". I read the series over and over growing up, but I read those two more than the rest.
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definetly has to be the first one, the magicians nephew. It was the first one I ever read, and one of the only ones I can really remember everything from.
But it's really hard to decide cause I love them all.
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Do you know how hard you would have to laugh to actually laugh your ass completely off? Posts: 167 | From: BrookPark, Ohio | Registered: Nov 2003
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This question makes me nervous because I have always loved The Silver Chair and The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, equally. Don't make me choose, oh please don't.
I can officially say I like The Horse and His Boy the least. It just doesnt do anything for me. I have read the series at least 8 times through and I have started to skip this one on the last couple of reads.
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I don't really know. Mine's either The Last Battle or The Horse and His Boy. These two just came across as the most interesting. I think I like The Horse and His Boy because it doesn't focus on Lucy etc.
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It would have to be The Magician's Nephew. I loved the creation of Narnia,where the iron bar Jadis had broken off the streetlight grew into the lamp-post mentioned in LWW.I read it last in the series and it kinda clarified certain things like why there was a lamp post and how they knew about sons of Adam and daughters of Eve,when there were no humans in their own world,etc
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Its a tie betweene LWW and The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. Voyage was the first book in the series I read back in first grade and is my favorite because of that (and because of Reepicheep). I love LWW because of the way its written.
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Last battle because I like seeing how stuff ends/dies.
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Got to say that "Voyage of The Dawn Treader" really got me going -for Caspian, - and "The Silver Chair" - who could forget Puddleglum? Most interesting was how "The Lion The Witch and The Wardobe" hooked me. I had grown up (I was 10 at the time) reading Greco-Roman legends, and I liked anything that had fauns and centaurs in it. Curse you, C.S. Lewis! You faked me out as a little girl. I fell in love with Aslan, just as all the Sons and Daughters of Adam and Eve did, and was led astray. Hmph.
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