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Postby Larry W. » March 11th, 2008, 2:46 am

I'm listening to the Focus on the Family Narnia dramas, and they have no numbering on the CD's or their cases. So you can choose the order that you play them in.

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Postby Pete » March 11th, 2008, 2:56 am

On my box set of the Focus on the Family audio dramas on CD, they do have numbers on the spines, but I (as soon as I first got them) put them in the original publication order - and that's the way I listen to them. :pleased:
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Postby Larry W. » March 11th, 2008, 4:14 am

I bought mine separately, and the cases have no numbers. I think I prefer it that way, although the sets take up more storage space.

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Re: the best edition of the Chronicles of Narnia

Postby Sven » March 11th, 2008, 7:25 pm

Rat! he found breath to whisper, shaking. Are you afraid?
Afraid? murmured the Rat, his eyes shining with unutterable love.
Afraid! Of Him? O, never, never! And yet -- and yet -- O, Mole, I am afraid!
Then the two animals, crouching to the earth, bowed their heads and did worship.
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Postby glumPuddle » March 12th, 2008, 6:04 am

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Chronological Order: 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956
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Postby Larry W. » March 12th, 2008, 12:35 pm

Not too many people objected to the poor quality of the Macmillan paperbacks during the 1970's. Years later I compared them with the better hardcovers and saw how in the paperbacks the illustrations were cut down and how poor the quality of the paper was. People would say, if you want better books, just buy the hardcover set, which was very expensive. The paperbacks were not cheap back then either (I think it was around three or four dollars a book). It was an expense at that time for a college student buying all seven books to read for a course. Professors used to apologize for the high price of books that students had to buy for their classes, although of course it wasn't the professors' fault.

The reading order didn't seem to be as much of an issue back in the sixties and seventies, but then most just read the books in the published order. Little was said about the alternative, which many people wouldn't bother with-- perhaps because they thought of the books as adventure stories rather than a strict history of Narnia.

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Re: Petition?

Postby A#minor » March 13th, 2008, 1:27 am

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Postby Carrie » March 13th, 2008, 1:58 am

I'm in too! Send a petition my way!
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Postby repectabiggle » March 13th, 2008, 3:53 am

Let's do it.
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Postby glumPuddle » March 14th, 2008, 7:08 am

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Postby Tuke » March 14th, 2008, 7:49 pm

"The 'great golden chain of Concord' has united the whole of Edmund Spenser's world.... Nothing is repressed; nothing is insubordinate. To read him is to grow in mental health." The Allegory Of Love (Faerie Queene)

2 Corinthians IV.17 The Weight of Glory
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