I just finished The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe today. I really only had about 30 pages to go, because I listened to most of it on audiobook in the fall and forgot to finish. It was less thrilling than the movie, but I did enjoy the book and the movie, and I was glad to have some of the movie's images in my head.
I don't pretend to be a biblical scholar, and I'm not, but I'm sure that this book is chalk full of biblical references that went right over my head. I know that Aslan is a symbol for Jesus, but only because I've heard it elsewhere...I would not have figured even that obvious piece out for myself. I enjoyed the book well enough, but surprisingly not as much as Lord of the Rings (gasp!).
Next up should be the rest of the series, but we'll see how far I get with that one. I've already read the first two chapters of the third book, The Horse and his Boy. My favorite teacher read us The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, and then for some reason she bought me The Horse and His Boy to read in the summer. I tried and tried and I NEVER could finish it because I found it too dull. I think I expected Lucy, Edmond, Susan, and Peter to be in it, but they were not (or at least they are not in the beginning). But we'll see how this goes, hopefully quickly as it's a children's series.
