The Silver Chair - C.S. Lewis

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Title: The Silver Chair
Author: C.S. Lewis
Genre: Fantasy
Rating: 4/5
# pages: 215 pages
Date read: April 2009, December 2018

A prince imprisoned - a country in peril. Narnia... where giants wreak havoc.... where evil weaves a spell... where enchantment rules. Through dangers untold and caverns deep and dark, a noble band of friends are sent to rescue a prince held captive. But their mission to Underland brings them face-to-face with an evil more beautiful and more deadly than they ever expected.


Audiobook version: I have to admit the narrator here annoyed me a bit (I've forgotten his name - sorry. I'll look it up if anybody's interested), because while good otherwise he kept saying Aslan with a long second a, which just sounded all wrong to me.

Otherwise I loved the book as much as always. There's a lot more frustration and regrets in this one than any of the others, but I absolutely adore Puddleglum :) And the bit on Aslan's mountain at the end it just beautiful.

What struck me as... if not odd, then at least interesting, is that TLTWTW is the only Narnia book where the kids get to stay for any length of time. In all the others, they're sent back to our world almost immediately after having completed their task. It seems a bit too quest like. I could imagine especially the Pensieves would have liked to be back "home" for longer periods of time... even if 1000 years had gone by between the first two times.

...but perhaps that's just my adult sentiments talking.