XPost: alt.usage.english, rec.arts.books.childrens, alt.books.cs-lewis   
   From: p4@enzym.rnd.uni-c.dk   
      
   JF  writes:   
      
   > Where on earth did you get that bizarre idea from? Look -- let me   
   > spell it out for you. Volume 1 in any chronicles means the first   
   > book. It doesn't matter when the volume was written. Volume 1 of The   
   > Narnia Chronicles is 'The Magician's Nephew'. One means the first. Say   
   > it to yourself over and over again. Sorry about the big words.   
      
   Repeating an false statement doesn't make it true. Repeating an   
   opinion doesn't make it fact.   
      
   If you read Asimov's prequels to Foundation before reading the earlier   
   novels (early by 30+ years I think), you will get the early Foundation   
   novels spoiled.   
      
   If you watch ep. 1-3 of Star Wars, you will get ep. 4-6 spoiled.   
      
   The order in which a story was written is usually also the best order   
   to read it. At least the first time around.   
      
      
   I wonder, when you read a book, do you go through it and find any   
   flashbacks, so you can read those first? I mean, they DO happen before   
   the rest of the book, right? So it's the right way to read it   
   according to you, right?   
      
      
   Lewis wrote LWW. He had at the time no plan to write another Narnia   
   book. He did so any way. This pattern repeated several times. There   
   was no master plan for the Narnia Chronicles. Uncle Andrew didn't   
   exist, when LWW was written. Heck, the professor wasn't even named at   
   the time.   
      
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   The RockBear.  ((^))   
   I speak only  0}._.{0   
   for myself.    O/ \O   
      
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