[ SECRET POST #2273 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2273 ⌋

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Comments

[cassandraoftroy]

I don't think it ruins the magic. I read The Magician's Nephew first (and it remains possibly-my-favorite in the series), and seeing Lucy find the wardrobe made me go, "OMFG I KNOW WHAT THAT IS! I RECOGNIZE THAT LAMPPOST! OMFG AWESOME!" rather than, "Huh?"

[tabaqui]

Exactly - I read them in what is apparently the 'new' order, too? I loved seeing the lamppost and realize it was 'Lantern Waste'.

[kamino_neko]

The 'new' order is chronological, the 'old' publishing order. Starts with The Magician's Nephew, ends with The Last Battle, vs The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe to LB. Only Magician's Nephew and A Horse and His Boy change position based on the order. (Moving to first and second, versus fifth and fourth, respectively.)

Edit - wait...first and THIRD. Been a long time since I read them...thought Horse came before Wardrobe, for some reason.

[(Anonymous)]

It... kind of does? Its set essentially in the time between the main chunk of Wardrobe and the conclusion when they head back to the real world. Shasta meets them as grown up Narnian nobles in the midst of their rule.

[(Anonymous)]

That was exactly my experience (and The Magician's Nephew is definitely my favourite).

[nomorenoodles.livejournal.com]

I read them in that order too, and it didn't ruin the magic for me at all.

My favourite in the series, though, has to be The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. :D

[scherrymouse]

This was me too. I was so excited to hear about the wardrobe and the lamppost, because I knew where they came from, and it just drew me into the universe all the more. (Also, I think the White Witch is made scarier by her introduction scene in TMN, but maybe that's just me.)

Damn, I need to re-read these books. In the order I'm used to, probably.

[leikomgwtfbbq]

Same here!

I read The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe first, as a lot of kids do, but when I read the others, I was really struck with a bigger sense of wonder--that everything is connected, that everything recurs, and everything can be made eternal (nothing good is ever totally destroyed).

Shit blew my mind when I was a kid. I made a habit of reading them about a thousand times a year.

(I'll also agree with the below commenter that Jadis is even more frightening considering her origin in The Magician's Nephew.)

The Narnia books are still my favorite fantasy series to this day. I've read far more grown-up ones, and the stories do have their flaws, but they affected my life and the way I read very deeply.

(words words words)

[niko]

In contrast, I read Magician's Nephew first, too, and even in third grade, felt like something was "off" about it... It wasn't until I went back and read LWW that I realized that I was SUPPOSED to have had the "A-ha!" moments back in MN, and didn't get them because I didn't have the context to know there were original moments to be had.

I'm with the OP. I've been on a kick of buying fancy hard-cover copies of favorite books for my "library", and it really rankles that I can't get a copy of Narnia in the order it was in when I was introduced to it.
I wish they'd release an un-numbered set, because I won't buy it in the wrong order.