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From: "Nigel Price" <nigel.a.price at virgin.net>
On the recently aired subject of juvenile fantasy: I've been reading a variety of books to my eight year-old daughter over the past couple of years. She loved "The Hobbit" and adored the Narnia books. She thought that "The Silver Chair" was the best, and I'm not sure that she isn't right.
That's my favorite too. Puddleglum is one of my favorite characters in all fiction I'd have to say. And Jill and Eustace with their constant bickering are much more easy to relate to than say Lucy or Peter or even Edmund (who became rather boring once he reformed).
I think I agree. Though I am unalterably hostile to Lewis for what he did to Susan. I came across Lewis rather late, maybe in my teens or 20s, and never forgave him for that cool, thoughtless misogyny. I wondered, later on, if Joy, his wife, ever tackled him on that.
-alga