What are you currently reading?

[Wuducynn]

Read my post. It was NOT first. Its first in the order of the story but not in release.

[jayson]

agreed on your point matt, there are two orders, release and series. so, let me ask you this, with the series complete, would you encourage a newcomer to read them in the "release order" or the "series order"? i know what i would choose, but that's also because my reads have all been in series order.

[Wuducynn]

Reading The Magicians Nephew first is like reading Wizard and Glass first. You're supposed to be surprised by how things worked out and where most of the things come from after reading most of the series.

[Darkthoughts]

I thought you were talking about the books. Why did they change the order?

[Wuducynn]

I AM talking about the books! Jeeeze. The publisher changed the order of the series and numbered them differently at some time. The Disney versions are following the original release of the books.

[Wuducynn]

Again the books were published in this order -

1. The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe; 2. Prince Caspian; 3. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader; 4. The Silver Chair; 5. The Horse and His Boy; 6. The Magician's Nephew; 7. The Last Battle

Disney is following this order. Which I think works better than the modern publisher created order. The publisher says that Lewis wanted them read in their order. Which maybe true, but I still they work better read in their original release order.

[Wuducynn]

Wikipedia has a good section on this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chr...#Reading_order

[Darkthoughts]

Lewis himself though, preferred this order:

The Magician's Nephew
The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe
The Horse and His Boy
Prince Caspian
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
The Silver Chair
The Last Battle

he wrote this to a fan who was arguing over the publishing order vs the chronological order (above):

I think I agree with your order for reading the books more than with your mother’s. The series was not planned beforehand as she thinks. When I wrote The Lion I did not know I was going to write any more. Then I wrote P. Caspian as a sequel and still didn't think there would be any more, and when I had done The Voyage I felt quite sure it would be the last. But I found as I was wrong. So perhaps it does not matter very much in which order anyone read them. I’m not even sure that all the others were written in the same order in which they were published

[Darkthoughts]

I read them in the chronological order, but that was back in the early 80's before the publishers changed it. So I wonder why my books were numbered that way?

[Wuducynn]

Right and look below that and there is some disagreement over that...

[Wuducynn]

I read them in the chronological order, but that was back in the early 80's before the publishers changed it. So I wonder why my books were numbered that way?

Hmmmm...this sounds like the Claudia y Inez Bachman thing...

[Jean]

The books are great, especially if you like that upper class old school British tome of narrative

I do, I do! I'll read them as soon as I can lay my paws on them

[jayson]

Maybe the level of the Tower you live on determines the order in which you are to read the Narnia stuff.

[Darkthoughts]

I can't remember the publisher - the covers were awesome though.
Seriously thats weird - until this conversation right now I had no idea they were published in two orders...

[Dud-a-chum?]

Didn't they start with The Lion, The Witch...? It should be Magician's Nephew first CK.

This is exactly the reason why I said they skipped books. I don't care which one was released first; if the order that exists now tells the story in the proper order, that's the way I want to see it presented.

[Dud-a-chum?]

I can't remember the publisher - the covers were awesome though.
Seriously thats weird - until this conversation right now I had no idea they were published in two orders...

Neither did I, though since I'm not too familiar with them, I am not too surprised by this.

[Wuducynn]

This is exactly the reason why I said they skipped books. I don't care which one was released first; if the order that exists now tells the story in the proper order, that's the way I want to see it presented.

Well the "proper order" is what is up for debate. You'll have to read them both ways and see for yourself which you prefer.

[Darkthoughts]

This is the version I had originally:

It was published in 1980 by Fontana Lion, then came The Lion etc - the wikipedia article seems to be talking about the change of order with US publishers that happened later than it obviously did over here. Mystery solved

[Lord_Vertigo]

"Lisey's Story" - I forget the author's name ... (sarcasm)

Harry Potter and Sorcerer's Stone

I'm not reading these currently, but can't resist recommending them.

"The Eyes of God," "The Devil's Armor," and "Sword of Angels" by John Marco
"The Paradise War," "The Silver Hand," and "The Endless Knot" by Stephen Lawhead.

[Heather19]

Finally finished Survivor. Great story. Now I'm onto 20th Century Ghosts. Hopefully I'll be able to read quite a few of the stories in there before Duma Key comes out.

[ManOfWesternesse]

Just finished a re-read of 'Magician' - Raymond E.Feist.
Now starting 'Silverthorn' - 2nd in that series.

[Daghain]

Finished Lost Boy Lost Girl and am about halfway through John Irving's A Widow for One Year.

[OchrisO]

I'm reading The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff and Confessor by Terry Goodkind. Too bad college starts back tomorrow and I won't have much reading time outside of class stuff.

[Darkthoughts]

Daggers - are you enjoying A Widow For One Year? I'm a massive Irving fan, have you read much of his other stuff?

[IWasSentWest]

i am currently reading "the chronicles of the black company" a trilogy by Glenn Cook. i have to say the books are pretty awesome, considering the fact that they take the magic and middle earth type approach. the guy made it seems so real, following a battallion of rogues, men for hire on a journey which is pretty much fuckin awesome. a little cheesy, the guy doesnt use many curse words, which takes away from it being real. but the story is like vietnam fiction in its intensity....very good read