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THE LAST BATTLE IS THE GREATEST OF ALL BATTLES.

Narnia... where lies breed fear... where loyalty is tested... where all hope seems lost.

During the last days of Narnia, the land faces its fiercest challenge - not an invader from without but an enemy from within. Lies and treachery have taken root and only the king and a small band of loyal followers can prevent the destruction of all they hold dear in this, the magnificent ending to The Chronicles of Narnia.

Clive Staples Lewis, born in 1898, wrote many books for adults, though the science fiction Cosmic Trilogy and the Narnia septet were his only works of fiction. The final title, The Last Battle, published in 1956, won the Carnegie Award, the highest mark of excellence in children?s literature.

2008-08-20 How could he?

Let me suppose that you have read no Narnia books at all and are thinking whether to read them yourself or give them to a child - then I'll say that I cannot recommend them more but read them in order and after you have finished the Silver Chair go back and reread your favourites because if you are like me this book will entirely spoil your enjoyment of Narnia. I won't say any more to you because I hate spoilers.

But if you have read this book read on for my opinion on it. (I apologies for any inaccuracies as I have only read it once and refuse to even open it again)

How could he? He creates a wonderful world and makes it feel real and you care about the characters and then he tells you "Oh this is just a shadow world, which is merely a pale imitation of the real one" so why did we bother reading the rest of the books? It wasn't even real.
I understand about the Christian allegory and I think it works well in the other books; you can either ignore it or have fun spotting it but this! it felt like the allegory was the whole point of the thing, he was practically preaching to me and slyly too, I can handle preaching when it is up front and obvious I can even respect it although I do not like it. Why did he not just write a children's bible or something?

Before I finish I just want to say that this is the opinion of a child, the disillusionment of a child, which has fermented in a corner of my brain since then, and also that this one star review is perhaps a higher commendation to the other books than enthusiastic five star reviews would be as it was because of my love for those that I hated this so much.

One thing that I think is inexcusable though is Susan - she gets into makeup etc. and so she gets denied paradise? That does not feel like good Christianity to me.