¡¡¡¡Last Battle!!!!

[Malchristian]

I finished this book yesterday! It's awesome! What part do you like best? I like Time.

[DeplorableWord]

I love the Last Battle, too, but I don't think I have a favorite part- I liked all the parts!:D

[lamer]

"Further up! Further in!"
Love that line.

[Malchristian]

That got a tiny bit annoying after a while. "Further up! Further in! Further up! Further in! Further up! Further in!"

[I_AM_ME]

i finish the book yesterday and i love it my favorite part is when the sun and the moon get together and it all becomes in shadows and the ending is just so beautiful. :)

[lieke]

i love the LB! it's one of my favorite books! i think the best part is when tirian meet all the kings and queens (Peter, Edmund, Lucy, Digory, Polly, Eustace and Jill) and offcourse the ending, the last few lines that every new chapter will be better than the previous one.

[Charn_Tim]

This is my favourite book of the series (tied with VDT). The part I liked best is how Lewis makes Emeth of Calormen enter the New Narnia after all, particularly his whole conversation with Alsan. It really answered a lot of questions about salvation that I was on the precipice of understanding, and when I read it, things just seemed to make sense.

[slideyfoot]

The last five chapters, which read like an extended sermon thinly disguised as a children's story, are the most interesting. I must have read the book as a child, as its in my bookshelf in the same edition as the others I can remember reading, but I can't recall getting any religious connotations. Having re-read it today, the allegory is so thumpingly obvious I don't know how I could have missed it, even as a child.

Not being a christian, I can't say I especially enjoyed the book (at least, today as an adult - I've no idea if it appealed to me as a child); its far too preachy for my tastes. In addition, there is all the controversy over potential racist interpretations (repeated use of the term 'darkies' by the dwarves), and the other possible bit of bigotry against Islam (seeing as the Calormenes are a race of dark-skinned people who live in a desert, wear turbans, and worship a different god). But thats dealt with at length in a plethora of other threads on here.

Still, its academically intriguing in terms of Lewis' allegory, so from that standpoint, I got some pleasure out of analysing the text.

[Aslan'sgirl]

I thought one of the best parts was in Chapter 9: The Great Meeting on Stable Hill, page 111 on the night before the battle:
"Kiss me,Jewel," he said. For certainly this is our last night on earth. And if I ever offended against you in any matter great or small, forgive me now",
"Dear King," said the Unicorn, "I could almost wish you had, so that I might forgive it. Farewell. We have known great joys together. If Aslan gave me my choice I would choose no other life than the life I hsve had and no other death than the one we go to."

I just loved that part. And in page 129, last paragraph when Tirian announces:
"Here stand I,Tirian of Narnia, in Aslan's name, to prove with my body that Tash is a foul fiend, the Ape a manifold traitor, and these Calormenes worthy of death. To my side, all true Narnians. Would you wait till your new masters have killed you all one by one?"

That was just so amazing! :)

[high_kingpeter]

My favorite part was when Peter and crew found Prince Emeth. It made me feel so happy because even Calormenes were allowed into the real Narnia so long as thier hearts were true, Aslan would let them in.