Read For Free The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader Brought To You By C.S. Lewis Issued As Hardbound
read the first book back in Christmas and feeling confused about the reading order I'll say that this was a very enjoyable and easy to read children's book.
I'm still struggling to find out who the reading order of Narnia is, I've seen that this is either thend or theth book but then again I've seen it being named therd book, I'm just going to read it however I want and hope it'll all be fine, At least, I don't there was any missing detail from the book, so that must be a good thing,
As to why I gave thisis because I found it less adventurous than the first one, I felt this one was a bit rushed and yes that's the way children's books usually are but it was a bit too much for me.
I loved the characters, although some of the characters of the first book were missing, but we had a new one on the children side, and several new ones on the world of Narnia.
A journey in the sea on a ship named Dawn Treader, C. S. Lewis is a masterful author, very laconic but at the same time his words are utterly descriptive, The thing with children's books is that they always make me feel nostalgic and give me this feeling we all had as children, I feel carefree.
One of my fave Narnia books when I was a child, the crew of the Dawn Treader are joined by Ed, Lucy and Eustace as they seek out the Seven expelled Lords who sailed East seven years earlier.
Eustace is a great character, in that he behaves as a few most certainly would, with utter disbelief, shock, and also borderline horror at the 'backward' Narnian reality, as well as forever questioning and assigning his own ideas of the motives and aims of his fellow crew.
The trip sailing East, allows C, S. Lewis to really expand on the Narnia reality and show us what else is out there, which he does with aplomb, It's C. S. Lewis goes wild with a mesh of dark fairy tale style adventures from dragons and onelegged bouncing dwarves to clouds of darkness and mesmerising merpeople.
It's Lewis's creativity and gift for storytelling that should dwarf pun intended any and all Christian symbolism in the series, Another gem!
“Adventures are never fun while you're having them, ”
The pace of this book was kind of slow for me, I spent seven days for the first half of this book.
Then when the adventure comes, everything just gets better and better, I enjoyed how The Voyage of the Dawn Treader has The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe vibes, even though it reminded me of some parts of Pirates of the Caribbean.
“One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts, ”
The ideas were flowing, especially the mysterious feelings that got me chilled when the children are on the ship sailing to rescue and discover something they haven't seen before.
That's just amazing considering this book was written before CGI has been welldeveloped, I can't imagine how Lewis created such imaginative images in his head and made people see it clearly,
The ending was a bit sad, though, This is the time for the last goodbye, and I knew even if there should be more, but it's enough in the story for the children to grow up and keep in their mind that this is the farewell.
All in all, the chronicles of Narnia is worth reading when I have nothing to read, It makes my head spin in a good way and it keeps me want to go back and be a kid again,
“Courage, dear heart, ”
sitelink gl/wQbbm "Please, Aslan" said Lucy, "what do you call soon"
"I call all times soon", said Aslan
note: a review of this whole series is up on my channel!
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I am reading this series in publication order yes, I know, I am weird, which means this was book number three for me.
Also, I haven't read it as a kid, so this is my first experience with this classic, I liked this one more than number two Prince Caspian, and this might very well be my favourite book so far, I loved the sailing theme, and I am a sucker for stories about voyages at sea, This one, in particular, was more a collection of single stories as the ship containing the characters sails from island to island, they live different adventures, just like those classic sailing books like Gulliver's Travels or even the Odyssey, which I love.
But even though all adventures were enjoyable, if sometimes a little too short the book itself is underpages, the last chapters were simply amazing.
Glad I chose to go on with this series!
I knew that the new film version of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader was going to be bad.
I did not know that it was going to be that retarded that I'd question my faith in my own taste, Not that I don't like retarded stuff, But boring too Ouch. Was the book that bad I don't remember all of it, It's been years since I've read it, Lauren, you're never picking the movie ever again,
A video game version of the movie would be better than the movie, At least it would be more difficult! What the fuck was up with the swords Was that ALL there was to it I seem to remember there was more.
. . "Hey, there's the lord's sword, Pick it up. " There were all these old lords with ZZ Top beards and no one bust out into "She's got legs" I guess they forgot how to use them when they were asleep for that long.
I seem to remember there was more to the lords than that, I seem to remember that Caspian learned more than a trite "Be your own man" message relating to his hero worship of the dad he didn't know the movie seems to forget that he didn't know his dad.
There was more than gripping the flaccid swords of old men and daddy never touched me as a child, Wasn't there
The looks thing What the Lucy didn't perform a spell to look "beautiful" like Susan I'm enough of a girl that I thought "Well, she's not THAT pretty.
. . ". She used it to eavesdrop, She found out that her friend said something she didn't mean about her behind her back, Because she did that, they would never be friends the same way again, What Lucy really learned was that people are pissy bitches and one bad mood isn't them all the time, Girls can insult your ugly sweater and still really sometimes secretly admire you,
I know that Eustace becoming a dragon and the process of becoming "himself" again was more, I loved that in the book it wasn't some pansy "Be nice" message, Eustace was a jerk because he was afraid of everything, afraid to think for himself, In the movie he learns to be what the "cool kids" want instead of just not being afraid to change, What the Boo! The "be yourself" message about Lucy and Caspian did not mesh with the "be like everybody else" message they inflicted on the audience about poor Eustace.
The kid who played Eustace was the only good actor in the film, Lucy is an embarrassment. Also inappropriate! She did that wideeyed wonder grin when her cousin was stuck as a dragon! What idiots let that one go by They made their heroine look like a bitch.
Okay, they made a lot of mistakes in the pretty bad Prince Caspian film, He shouldn't have been old, It was nothing to meet him again later on in his life if he's still a young man, The stupid Susan romance Who cares when he meats Freudian slip the star chick if they are pissed he forgets about Susan I hated that movie.
It was preschool LOTR films battle scenes, They got all wrong what were the good parts of the book,
I know that Edmund admits to being a shit for his first Narnia visit, This is not mentioned in
the film, I liked that about Edmund in the book,
Nothing new here: I always loathed Reepicheep, He's the little thing that runs his big mouth so no one will underestimate him, If he was really that good he wouldn't have to run his mouth, He's also the biggest mouth peice for Aslanmania,
The "Bad stuff happens have faith anyway" stuff, I remember that The Last Battle is the most overtly religious book in the series and I managed to ignore the rest in the other books.
They upped the ante Am I a harder sell
I don't like this, I feel more or less the same person as before, I'll still read the kids and ya books that recognize the parts of you that you can carry on with you, Not the bad taste for silly melodrama parts but the "That happened and I can't pretend it didn't" experiences, Narnia was such a good part of my life, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe was the first book I really remember reading, I don't want it to be the bad part that I only pretended was good to get by,
P. s. I don't wanna be all Comic Book Guy, but it annoyed the effing hell out of me that Eustace's mom announces in the end that "Jill Pole is here to see you!" Jill wasn't his friend before! Eustace didn't have friends.
So annoying.
Oh yeah! I forgot to say what I thought about writing here while watching that dumb ass movie, They really wasted a golden chance, C. S. Lewis made digs about the loss of freedoms for kids, school systems that babied kids and at the same time allowed fucked up shit to go on so they wouldn't "Stifle" anybody.
Kids today have no freedom, Parents will call the cops on each other if they run around outside and play, Yet here was Edmund and Lucy having to be shutin after they had lived it up as freethinking adults in Narnia, Instead They waste it all by bamming audiences on the head about doing what Aslan wants, That doesn't mesh with the good parts of the Narnia series that I remembered it to have,
EDIT Lauren will be pissed at me for not mentioning the glow in the dark "eevel" green mist, What the hell was that I don't remember that, They should just let me write these things, The BBC tv movies back in the day combined Voyage and Prince, Probably because the actual plots were so thin, That's why they should let me do it, I'd have made the whole thing a dragon eating its own skin off movie, Prince Caspian would have been a refugee movie,
Lauren really hated the actor who played the magician, You know they are a nobody if they weren't in Harry Potter some exceptions allowed for LOTR actors, .