tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6708375.post113543229222079014..comments2024-03-28T03:54:21.932-04:00Comments on Canadian Cynic: Some more serious snark for the blogroll.CChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11406057201126015750noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6708375.post-1135918643532244132005-12-29T23:57:00.000-05:002005-12-29T23:57:00.000-05:00CC sez: "No, of course I'm not an anti-Christian b...CC sez: "No, of course I'm not an anti-Christian bigot! I really do hate the books because of the bad storytelling! Really, I do!"<BR/><BR/>Everyone else: *nodding* "Sure, CC. If you say so."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6708375.post-1135464119370129822005-12-24T17:41:00.000-05:002005-12-24T17:41:00.000-05:00as a kid i spent my summers roving the stacks of t...as a kid i spent my summers roving the stacks of the dana porter arts library (mom ran book order there). i loved science fiction, fantasy and far out fiction. i came upon the narnia stories at the same time as i discovered le guin, tolkein and all the other frazetta covered genre stuff. i read lion, witch and wardrobe and it just didn't do it for me. it was kind of prissy, perhaps twee would be a better word. <BR/><BR/>if i'd come across it a few years earlier, i might be sharing those warm, fuzzy memories.Lindsay Stewarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13461043718147845594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6708375.post-1135452624230480842005-12-24T14:30:00.000-05:002005-12-24T14:30:00.000-05:00Judas Priest! Out to lunch hardly describes you lo...Judas Priest! Out to lunch hardly describes you location. <BR/><BR/>Man, you're conducting a lunch counter sit-in to gain equal rights for the clueless.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6708375.post-1135440827054651712005-12-24T11:13:00.000-05:002005-12-24T11:13:00.000-05:00All right, perhaps I'm totally out to lunch on thi...All right, perhaps I'm totally out to lunch on this one. Wouldn't be the first time.CChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11406057201126015750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6708375.post-1135439324254418112005-12-24T10:48:00.000-05:002005-12-24T10:48:00.000-05:00Whoa, whoa, whoa. Lewis didn't bring Aslan back to...Whoa, whoa, whoa. Lewis didn't bring Aslan back to life as a narrative device to rescue a cliffhanger...his resurrection is the heart of the entire story. The Christian "overtones" aren't a subtle overlay...they're the whole point. Lewis isn't trying to sneak a bit of symbolic Christianity past us...he's trying to illuminate one of the core precepts and mysteries of Christianity by telling the redemption and resurrection tale in a new context. <BR/><BR/>I'm an atheist, by the way, not a Christian: but to me the series is both wonderful storytelling and a fine illustration of all that's best about Christianity.Balbulicanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03909755014063452689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6708375.post-1135435989009445642005-12-24T09:53:00.000-05:002005-12-24T09:53:00.000-05:00Sorry CC,I loved the Lion The Witch & The Wardrobe...Sorry CC,<BR/><BR/>I loved the Lion The Witch & The Wardrobe, and the Magigican's Nephew, and The Horse and His Boy, And the Silver Chair (Puddleglum was my fav) and the Voyage of the Dawntreader etc... when I was a child, I read these boooks (A gift from my grandfather) to tatters, and I have not stopped enjoying them while reading them again as a parent.<BR/><BR/>Call it the curse of the Anglican up bringing... or what-not... but I absolutley adored every single one of the CS Lewis books... And no amount of grown-up griping about it 20+ years later changes the hours and hours of enjoyment I got out of the enjoyment of being whisked away to the make-believe world of NarniaSomena Womanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05010535817469581311noreply@blogger.com