Do you like this book

[The White Stag]

I love this book as it's my fav :D but also I love how it sets the scene for this long and many adventures to come in Narnia. But what do you think? Bt thequestion that I should ask is do you think that they should ahve done this book as a film first or do you think that the director made a good choice?

[inkspot]

LWW had to be first. it is the most popular -- and many of us read it first, too. It was a good choice to make LWW prior to MN.

But I do love MN, and I love it being the 6th book rather than the first.

[office]

i love this book but its not my fav

[Princey]

I think LWW should have been made first because it's the most well known and popular. It's also the most loved (how could it not be, when it has Peter in it? :D)

But I adored the Magician's Nephew, it was so cool!

[Saruman]

LWW is where the movies should have started, and they have. For some reason it keeps me on the edge of my seat, wondering how Professor Kirke would know so much about Narnia. To have an explanation later on makes it all the more worthwhile, I think. I do hope they will make TMN into a movie; it's one of my favorites. :)

[glamel]

Eventhough MN is actually where everything started , It's a wise decision not to make it the first film, because, I for one, after reading LWW, was curious on how everything started in the first place. MN is a great book, I wonder who'd play Uncle Andrew :D

[Feet]

it's my favorite book. strawberry is my special horse....
Magician's Nephew...i love

[Apple_Of_Life29]

i agree with glamel. LWW leaves you wondering where many things came from. it would be great to see all of the movies released in the same order of the books...but i dont know if that'll happen.

[Aravis Kenobi]

Someone else may have already pointed this out, but The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe is the most famous of all the Chronicles (except for the Last Battle, which surpassed it when it was published) so more people would see this film in case they hadn't read the other books. Andrew Adamson probably thought that more people would like this film first since it was the first book published. The reason they're doing the films in publishing order is because of how most people read them. Simple as that.

EDIT: I agree with Saruman on his point. It keeps you wondering how the professor knows so much about Narnia and why he tells Susan and Peter that Lucy might be telling the truth. :)

[Tsukiko]

yes. it shoiws hwo narnia was 1st created

[Harvestar]

The thing is-
In the "more proper" way, they should have done this movie first.
True, it may be more popular, but then they miss out on a lot of the basics.

Remember many people have not even read these books and may need some background info to understand what is actually going on.
Since the books also go in order (at least in relation), there is a history of some locations, people, or whatever to everything.

I find it almost like Star Wars and how they framed the first movie as number one, and jumping around.

So if you ask me if this should be first, I would say yes.
But after what they have done, nah, its all good. :)

(I have something to add, but I'll save it for next time.)

[Aslan'sgirl]

I like the LWW better first. I read that one first and SO many more times. It's one of my very favorites and was my absolute favorite for years. I love the MN, but I like this order. :)

[Harvestar]

I guess I should start reading them over again :o
I do have good memory of what happens, but I think I will
re-read before the movie comes out.
I voted no, by the way.

[I♥Georgie]

i polled no because i like the LWW and it may go in oder :)

[Emily_Cullen]

I don't really know but I would say no :rolleyes:

[Esmeralda]

I loved The Magician's Nephew! It's the only Narnia book I have read so far, and I really enjoyed it. I'll be starting on The Lion,The Witch,&The Wardrobe tonight. : D

[fernshirehobbit]

i would have prefered it be first... but that is just because how much i prefer things to be chronilogical

[Catherine]

I don't think so. First, because LWW is the most popular...i know several people who have read LWW but not the rest of the series, and also i like that so far they are filming the books in the order that they were originally published. I don't think the story would flow as well in the chronological order in film as it does in the books.

[Lexy]

I pefer the other books to this one:)

[Copperfox]

I love "Magician's Nephew," because it sweeps away uncertainty and establishes clearly that Aslan IS Jesus, not just "somebody who sorta makes you think about Jesus a little bit." Also, in showing the origin of Jadis, it sheds light on the true nature of evil.

[Glenburne]

"Magician's Nephew" is one of my favorite books in the Narnia series--a little less familiar to most people than LWW, and a great read. The predicament that Uncle Andrew forces Digory and Polly into is really fascinating: I think the book also feels a lot less "safe" than LWW because of the introduction of other worlds besides Narnia and our own. I love the book.

I do think, however, that it was best to do LWW first as a movie from a director's standpoint, simply because as a more familiar book it would be more likely to draw people into a movie series than MN. And since LWW was the real starting point for Lewis anyway, it feels more like a first book than MN.

[Copperfox]

Another reason why I like TMN is because most otherworldly fantasies take the reader into a fantasy world which is "already there;" not often do you get to see the fantasy world being created. And once the Narnian world is created in TMN, we get to experience vicariously with Digory and Polly what it would be like to explore this brand-new, still-mostly-vacant world.

[Glenburne]

The whole death-and-birth of worlds idea is fascinating.

[inkspot]

I am surprised by the poll results at how many people say they don't like TMN. I love it for the same reasons as CF and Glenburne. When I was a kid it wasn't one if my favorites because to me CON was all about Narnia, being there, with Lucy and Edmund, etc. But now I really enjoy TMN because it extends the magic to other worlds than our own.

[EveningStar]

While I love TMN, I would not want it to be the first film.

First off, if you know who Digory Kirke is from the very beginning, it takes away the suspense about whether or not he'd believe the Pevensies had really visited another world through the wardrobe.

Furthermore, some of the things in TMN are only fully effective to an audience familiar with LWW. Think for a minute about a story of a dashing hero who saves the princess and falls in love with her but at the end of the movie he cannot marry her because he's not of royal blood. Then someone sees his odd birth mark and declares that he is the true heir to the throne switched at birth. Just imagine how you would let the air out of that to do a prequel FIRST so all the people in the audience are sitting there thinking, "Come on Rodrigo, show them your birthmark!"

[inkspot]

Oh, I mis-read the poll! I thought the question was do you like this book?

OK, I am in total agreement with ES, that LWW was the natural choice to be the first film. Doing TMN first would not have made sense in the least.

[MrBob]

"Another reason why I like TMN is because most otherworldly fantasies take the reader into a fantasy world which is "already there;" not often do you get to see the fantasy world being created."

Copper, I can only think of two books that are like that: MN and The Neverending Story. Both are amazing with the sprouting of Perilin, the Night Forest. That is an incredible way to create a world. The best part about the creation of Narnia was was the animals emerging from the ground.

I want to see both onscreen.

MrBob

[DancesWithDryads]

This is kinda petty, but I really loves knowing who the Professer really was while the non-book-readers didn't. I know I cheered when he said "Try me," and lots of people looked at me strange, it was awesome :) I absolutly love TMN. I love the insignt it gives to LWW, I remember having a complete spaz attack when Diggory turns the Narnian tree into the Wardrobe. The imagery is fantastic, I love how Aslan signs Narnia into existance, and Strawberry! He's my favorite!

[~Aravis~]

I really like TMN alot. I think it's a great book, and definitely one of my favorites. :) I can't wait to see it as a movie.

But as to whether they should have done it first... I think they made the right decision. Because LWW was the most well known book and all... I think they did the right thing, for the sake of the people who are not crazily familiar with the books like alot of us.

Although I do read the books in chronological order, and I know alot of us would have liked to see them in chronological order. ;) But for the sake of the others, and trying to get alot of viewers, LWW was best for first, in my opinion. :)

[missionary]

I read the books in order too. I've read the series 3 times all in chronological order. LWW was though a better first choice than TMN.

[TheSilverChair]

I love this book. Though I think it was best that LWW was first, because that was the most popular book. Plus it will be cool to get a movie that feels like a prequel in a few years down the road.

[inkspot]

Welcome, TSC. I didn't see you post before! :)

I agree this is a wonderful book. I hope, if there is a film, that they do justice to the book.

[dawna]

its a great book I do hope the make this book into a film as I hope they make ALL the books into a movie .

[Godstone]

The Lion the witch.. was a guaranteed cinema filler and so was the obvious starting place. If Dawn Treader is successful then you never know, it could get made at some stage.