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Mark @ Carstairs Considers (2200 KP) rated The Silver Chair (Chronicles of Narnia, #4) in Books

Mar 9, 2018

The Silver Chair (Chronicles of Narnia, #4)

C.S. Lewis | 1953 | Children, Fiction & Poetry, Science Fiction/Fantasy

7.8

(18 Ratings)

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Eustace and Jill are called to Narnia to save the crown prince who is being held underground by an enchantress. But will they get sidetracked along the way? This is another fun adventure, but it is Puddleglum who makes the book for me.

Read my full review at <a href="http://carstairsconsiders.blogspot.com/2013/03/book-review-silver-chair-by-c-s-lewis.html">Carstairs Considers</a>.

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David McK (3425 KP) rated The Horse and His Boy (Chronicles of Narnia, #5) in Books

Jan 28, 2019

Firstly, is this the third Narnia book, or is it the fifth?

The answer to that is whether you go by chronological setting (in which case it's the third), or by publication date (it's the fifth).

This is also a story that I didn't remember reading as a child; however, when I was recently re-reading it I was finding plot elements to be a little-bit-more-familiar than I was otherwise expecting: perhaps I did, and had just forgotten.

Unlike [b: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe|100915|The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #1)|C.S. Lewis|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1353029077s/100915.jpg|4790821], this does not follow the Pevensie children, but rather the journey of a young boy named Shasta who discovers he was adopted and is running away to Narnia when his adoptive father is about to sell him into slavery; running away alongside/with the help of the talking horse Bree. Along the way they fall in with a girl named Aravis and her talking horse Hwin, who are also making the same escape.

While I've heard arguments recently that, in this book, CS Lewis is displaying his own racist xenophobia ('fair and white ... accursed but beautiful Barbarians'), personally I think that is reading too much into what is simply intended to be a children's Arabian Nights esque fairytale