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Re: Lord of the Rings
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lugnet.general
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Tue, 20 Jul 1999 16:22:46 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Jeremy H. Sproat writes:
> John Neal wrote:
> > Tom McDonald wrote:
> > > I'm reading book 5 _A Horse and His Boy_ for the umpteenth time.. My • favorites
> > > out of the series are book 3 and 6.
> > Do you consider The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe the first book, or The
> > Magician's Nephew? I always advise folk to read the former first.
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> Ditto. It bugs me that they switched the numbering so that the Magician's
> Nephew is first -- if I'm not mistaken, it was originally book 6. Bits of
> that book just don't make any sense unless you read several books before it.
Yes! I don't like that either. I saw that and it made me wonder what those
people were smoking. It seems like you can do anything with a dead author's
books.
Hey publisher: Read them (and sell them) in the order they were first
published. Who's lame idea was that anyway? Did someone over there win a case
of stupid on eBay or what? Ever read the first coupla pages of The Lion, the
Witch, and the Wardrobe? It's *obviously* the first book! duh.. Why don't you
call up Lucy Barfield and ask her?
> > > when replying, come on over where the spamcake is!
> > Kool! ;-)
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> I'm there. Whereabouts can one find you, Tom?
At garage sales buying used lego bricks and boxed Narnia sets! Just got
another one on Sunday, $1 for all 7. They are in *very* loved/read condition.
I like the funky 70's cover art on that series of editions. They are going to
a friend who loves those books but does not have them anymore.
On a related note, I still have to get a new set of C.S' Space Trilogy with
newer cover art. It's much better and fitting than the previous stuff.
-Tom McD.
when replying, spamcake makes effective mosquito repellent. it also makes
effective people repellent.
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| Tom McDonald wrote: <snippage of valid criticism of spamcakehead publishers> (...) Ah yes, I think the kids and I shall read those next. I remember reading Perelandra with the radio on as a kid, and to this day when I hear "Living Thing" by ELO, I (...) (25 years ago, 21-Jul-99, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Ditto. It bugs me that they switched the numbering so that the Magician's Nephew is first -- if I'm not mistaken, it was originally book 6. Bits of that book just don't make any sense unless you read several books before it. (...) I'm there. (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jul-99, to lugnet.general)
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