The Magician's Nephew - C.S. Lewis

I think this was the last of the Chronicles of Narnia to be writted but chronologically it serves as the first story. A lot darker in my opinion than the other ones, and a very different style of story, it still haunts me when I read it. I reread the whole chronicles again recently and was vastly unimpressed by the story, I think maybe down to the fact that I had grown up and it was a tale lodged in my childhood. However, the Magician's Nephew still grabbed me and held me and I polished it off in an afternoon. In hindsight I should probably have let it stand on it's own because it worked very well as a story in its own right as well as an origin to the Narnia ...

I loved this book, I felt that it really described the land of Narnia very good, what I really don't understand is why film companies do not bother converting this book into a film, it's worth putting up, because although the Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe is most commonly known, lots of people asks how did Narnia become Narnia? And why is there a witch in Narnia? Why is there a Lamppost there? And why is it a wardrobe that brings them to the wardrobe? I personally have asked myself these questions after watching the films. So I went onto the internet one night, when these questions were enormously bugging me, and I found that the Lion, The Witch and the ...

The magician's nephew. The first in the Narnia series (when put in chronological order). If you're one of those people who read "The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe" first and want to know how it all came to be then this is the book for you. Ever wondered how Narnia was created, how the first link from our world to Narnia was made, where the lamp post came from, how Jadis (The White Witch) came in to Narnia or how a wardrobe can transport people to this magical land? All will be revealed in this book. When i read it, i did not expect any of this to have such a large connection to "Lion". It was a great revelation when i realised that's what this ...