50 books to read before you die discussion

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis was voted to be our group read from Open Nominations for December of 2017

Of course, I've heard of The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe all my life; I just finished it for the first time. I read a couple of C. S. Lewis' works before and wasn't as impressed with his writing as I had expected to be. The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe clearly is a children's book, written in a fairy tale style. I enjoyed Lewis writing of it. It's as if he's is telling a story to a child, with clever little things like referring to something one of the characters said "at the end of the last chapter"

The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe is a quick easy read. I heard an audio book version read by Michael York, who did an excellent rendition.

I had read that Pullman wrote The Golden Compass as a counter to C. S. Lewis' Narnia tales. The Golden Compass trilogy was criticized by some Catholic groups for supposedly being anti-christian. While it did portray the church in the role of villain, it wasn't the church that we know in our world. Anyhow I was expecting The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe to be overtly pro-christian, but I didn't find that at all. Other works of Lewis are unabashedly christian.

I was glad to read this once again and decided to read the whole series again in 2018. In fact, I'll be reading at least three other book series this year. LOTR, which I've read, including The Hobbit, four of the Leatherstocking Tales that I haven't read yet, and four of the Harry Potter books I haven't read yet. This is going to be fun.
I saw so much in The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe that I didn't see before since I'd read "Surprised by Joy," a story Lewis wrote about his younger, formative years.
Here's my Goodreads review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

I actually finished reading this just before I ended up in hospital, and seeing as I was the one who nominated it for the December read, I think it's only fair that I should do my bit and take part in the discussion about it.

I nominated this book because I wanted to read a Christmas classic (and I have already read a Christmas Carol) I also wanted to read another children's classic, I appear to have been making my way through these of late.

I was sceptical at first about the whole Christian angle, as I've made no secret of I am an atheist, but I don't think I really needed to worry about that too much. It was a really quick pacy story that I ended up thoroughly enjoying. I really enjoyed the beginning of the book, you get pulled in so fast your in Narnia before you know what's happened.

I may consider some time in the future delving into the rest of the books. When I eventually have children, it's definitely one that I will read to them, my list keeps growing longer on this point, they will be in their 20s before I've finished reading them everything I think they should read.