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No one understands why I love The Horse and His Boy right after The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe and The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. "It's so boring," they say. "Who wants to reads about horses and boys?"
I do. I love that Aravis is not prejudiced for who she is - a Calormen, oh no - and that an once-slave became a prince. There's a certain enchantment about that. Everyone like Harry Potter because an strange, out-of-place boy becomes a powerful wizard and you could say, the hero of his world.
I always liked Bree, and I wish that Hwin would speak more. Her line to Aslan about please eating her amused me for some reason; I really don't know why. And I love the Golden Age, when the four Pevensies sat at Cair Paravel.
I suppose that's the reason, though I don't think that's all of it. It does have less Christian imagery, and I'm certain you'd like that since you're an atheist. But you're not banned from using the word "sacred." That's pretty narrow-minded...
I don't know really, the word sacred best expresses what certain books mean to me, I am an atheist, but the thing with The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe is that I feel it's trying to push a message at me and I feel it's doing it too hard. The horse and his boy, hmm, perhaps because I found it easier to identify with Shasta, perhaps not
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I do. I love that Aravis is not prejudiced for who she is - a Calormen, oh no - and that an once-slave became a prince. There's a certain enchantment about that. Everyone like Harry Potter because an strange, out-of-place boy becomes a powerful wizard and you could say, the hero of his world.
I always liked Bree, and I wish that Hwin would speak more. Her line to Aslan about please eating her amused me for some reason; I really don't know why. And I love the Golden Age, when the four Pevensies sat at Cair Paravel.
I suppose that's the reason, though I don't think that's all of it. It does have less Christian imagery, and I'm certain you'd like that since you're an atheist. But you're not banned from using the word "sacred." That's pretty narrow-minded...
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