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Posted By: Dave, on host 209.6.136.158
Date: Friday, October 23, 1998, at 18:14:28
In Reply To: Re: Reading posted by Stephen on Friday, October 23, 1998, at 14:39:34:

> Of course, it's not like the book is very
>long. Looking at my copy, it's a measley 184
>pages. And it's a small book, with large
>print. Probably wouldn't take more than a few
>hours to read...

Ah, stop it. Don't worry, I'm going to read it. Like you said, it's shorter than the average magazine, plus it has *HUGE* type. I generally take two days to read the average Narnia book, but that's only because I rarely read for longer than an hour at a time on them.

But it pains me that the best is already behind me. I knew Dawn Treader was the best book the first time around, but like I said, I never finished them all the first time around. So I never read "The Magicians Nephew" "The Horse and His Boy" or "The Last Battle." (As Stephen points out, in the "old" or, more properly, "correct" ordering system, these three books came 5th, 6th, and 7th in the series. In the "new", or "stupid" ordering system, they are 1st, 3rd, and 7th, respectively. I'm reading them the "stupid" way this time around, so I've already hit the other two, and TLB is the only book left in the series I haven't read. Strangely enough, it seems to me that it was Lewis himself who was the greatest proponent of the "stupid" ordering system, which is why they are arranged thusly today.)

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