# Silver Chair *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 18 Aug 2001* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Alice Turner *18 Aug 2001, 03:29* > From: "Nigel Price" >> 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 ---