> Oh yay. Can't wait. My biggest problem with the books so far has been the heavy-handedness of the Christian allegory.

Again, everyone always told me this, but I honestly never really noticed it. It makes me really want to go back and read them, just for this aspect.

Another thing that upsets me about TLB: There's no real last battle, at least that I can recall. Just a bunch of symbolism. I always hated that book.

>The best book is the book in which it takes a back seat to the adventure, which is Dawn Treader.
Dawn Treader is just the best book period. It has the most interesting events and characters. Reepicheep is probably my favorite character in the series. And it also shows that Caspian is cooler than he was in Prince Caspian.

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> However, having said that, I will say that I did enjoy "The Horse and his Boy" even though it was so obvious which biblical story Lewis was telling. The difference, I think, is that this was an Old Testament story, and Aslan acted appropriately "Old Testament", which I've always liked better than the more friendly, cuddly New Testament Aslan (although they always describe him as "terrible" in the stories, the kids were forever running up to him and hugging him and stuff. *Nobody* did that in "Horse". *This* was the God who had to put Moses in a crack in the mountain and order him to shade his eyes and only look at His backside as He passed, lest he be struck dead by His visage. Yeah, I can get into that.)

Heh. The other interesting thing about Horse was that it dumps you back in time (if you read them the they were written, not this new way where I've seen them rearranged in chronological order), and fills in some gaps between Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe and Prince Caspian. I liked that.