kaue
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Post by kaue on Jul 30, 2009 12:18:25 GMT -5
I just wanted to recommend some books.
They seem to me much more than a child's tale.
The Magician's Nephew (book 1 of the Narnia series)
The Dark Is Rising Sequence
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csiwembley
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Post by csiwembley on Jul 31, 2009 12:59:27 GMT -5
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Post by ddddyyyy on Sept 10, 2009 2:02:26 GMT -5
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Post by bubbapug1985 on Sept 10, 2009 18:24:27 GMT -5
Good books to read,
A Day with an Extraterrestrial Rise of the Fourth Reich
These are song good reading. I would have to say the only times in my life I couldnt wait for the next paid because of excitement are these.
Bubbapug1985
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Post by Azrael on Sept 10, 2009 21:45:45 GMT -5
to keep with the C.S.Lewis theme from the OP I would recommend his science fiction trilogy
out of the silent planet perelendra That hideous strength
amazing pieces of work I would say Lewis had some et inspiration when writing these
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Post by Eevee on Sept 27, 2009 2:39:18 GMT -5
I just wanted to recommend some books. They seem to me much more than a child's tale. The Magician's Nephew (book 1 of the Narnia series) The chronicles of Narnia were amongst my favourite books when I was growing up, and I read them over and over again. The author C.S. Lewis certainly brought his story writing talents from elsewhere. But for some reason I found the Magician's Nephew to be a bit disturbing and I only read it once. Maybe it was the creepy Uncle, or the evil queen/witch Jadis, I'm not sure, maybe I'll read it again to see if it's still disturbing. ;D Apparently, there is also a secret code within the seven chronicles of Narnia. The books each represent a planet from the then (at the time of writing the books) cosmology. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe – Jupiter Jupiter was the best planet and Lewis’s favourite. Jupiter was the planet of kingship, and this story is a clash between the children’s destiny as kings and queens of Narnia, under the ‘King of the Wood’, Aslan, and Edmund’s mistaken attempt to become king under the evil White Witch. Jupiter brought about "winter passed and guilt forgiven", according to Lewis’s poem, ‘The Planets’, and in this first Narnia Chronicle the White Witch’s winter passes and Edmund’s guilt is forgiven.
Prince Caspian – Mars Mars is famously the god of war and this is a war story, a civil war to drive out the usurping King Miraz. Less famously, Mars is a god of woods and forests – Mars Silvanus, as he was known. Hence the continual use of arboreal imagery and the appearance of ‘silvans’ at the final battle, who never appear in any other Chronicle. Reepicheep is a ‘martial’ mouse; Miraz frets over his ‘martial policy’. The chesspiece found at the start of the story is, naturally, a knight.
The Voyage of the 'Dawn Treader' – the Sun A story about a journey towards the rising sun. Aslan flies out of the sunbeam towards Lucy as an albatross; he appears in the room when she utters the spell to make invisible things visible; he is seen shining as if in bright sunlight, though the sun has in fact gone in, on Goldwater Island. Gold, of course, is the sun’s metal. The killing of dragons on Dragon Island is drawn from Homer’s Hymn to Apollo, where the sun-god Apollo is Sauroctonus, the lizard-slayer. (Compare Tolkien’s villain, Sauron.)
The Silver Chair – the Moon Aslan only appears in person in his own high country above the clouds and has to be remembered by way of signs and in dreams below in Narnia where the air is thick. The structure of the book reflects the great lunar divide that existed in medieval cosmology between the translunary realm of certitude and the sublunary realm of confusion. The lost Prince Rilian is a lunatic, bound to a chair made out of the Moon’s metal, silver. The horses Coalblack and Snowflake are derived from the steeds which pull the Moon’s chariot in Spenser’s Faerie Queene.
The Horse and His Boy – Mercury Cor and Corin are based on Castor and Pollux, the horseman and the mighty boxer of Homer’s Iliad and stellated as Gemini, The Twins, a constellation in the house of Mercury. As separated but then reunited identical twins they represent "meeting selves, same but sundered", as Lewis puts it in the lines about Mercury from ‘The Planets’. Shasta becomes a fleet-footed messenger. A Narnian lord wears a steel cap with little wings on either side of it, a clear reference to the petasus, Mercury’s hat.
The Magician's Nephew – Venus Venus is the fertile planet associated with laughter, motherhood, beauty, warmth, and the apple grove of the Hesperides. Hence this story of the birth of Narnia and the healing of Digory’s mother with a magic apple taken from the Western garden; hence also "the First Joke"! The wicked Jadis is what Lewis elsewhere called "Venus Infernal", the anti-Venus; she is based on the goddess Ishtar, who was especially worshipped in Nineveh. That is why Jadis calls Charn "that great city", an allusion to Jonah 1:2; 3:2.
The Last Battle – Saturn Aslan does not appear at all until all the characters are dead, reflecting the nature of Saturn, the planet of (apparent) ill-chance and treachery and death. Aslan is here the deus absconditus, the God who is felt only in abandonment. Father Time with his scythe is a mythological character based on Saturn. In a surviving Narnian typescript, Father Time is named ‘Saturn’, but Lewis amended this to ‘Father Time’ before publication in order to keep his planetary theme more carefully hidden.
booksbycslewis.blogspot.com/2008/01/narnia-and-seven-heavens.html
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Post by freedombear on Feb 2, 2020 14:38:40 GMT -5
Alien interview,by Matilda O'donnell Macelroy just like this guys books Lou's , hello fellow ! i tried to become a friend with you on facebook but your sort of on limits as how many you can have..kind regards say hello to all ..and also hopefully you would answer me ...one day.
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Post by freedombear on Feb 2, 2020 14:39:55 GMT -5
Low of One ! crazy stuff 'love it personally !
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