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Jul
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Most of my books are packed up because we were getting the floors refinished. They remain packed up because there is still a lot of wall work to be done and it didn’t seem worth it to set up the book cases again only to move them. My books that I haven’t read are also hidden in boxes so when I needed a new book to read I figured I’d go through the boxes and find the new book box or the box with the Chronicals of Narnia, and I’d read whichever came first. It had been over 20 years since my last read of the Narnia books and since the movie will be coming out soon I wanted to refresh my memory.
I remember it being a short book, but it’s really short. Not much happens in it and yet it should make a nice 90 minute movie. There’s nothing to get complicated or difficult that would need to be changed story-wise. In a number of cases he goes into great detail in the book about how the computer graphics should look and if those directions aren’t followed I’ll be pretty disappointed. There isn’t much dialog so you have to throw more of that in there but that should translate fairly well from thoughts they are thinking.
How does it hold up as a book? It’s kind of shallow but it’s still entertaining enough. While I didn’t know the Christian connection the last time I read them, I can see it now, but I hardly think it’s the main focus and I don’t think that interferes. I’m going to continue with the others and see what I think of them.