timdiggerm said:

twooffour said:

I just thought it was a pretty cool "mystery adventure" book until it turned into religious fairytale cheese towards the last third.
No fuckin' Fauns, no fuckin' talkin' animals repressing their first laughter, no stupid grasshoppers, no Apples of Teh Life - could've turned out so differently, had it been written first :(

Perhaps you know nothing else of C.S. Lewis' work? Most of his books are Christian theology. Heck, even when he wrote sci-fi, it was explicitly in a Christian context.

If one doesn't particularly like being preached religious messages in a fiction book, does it really matter whether it's something the author does all the time, or just thought would be fun this one time?

But yea, I obviously meant it from the perspective of someone who didn't know ahead ;)

Just to clarify, I don't have any problems with Christian, or religious themes as such - and the version of Christianity, along with its values, detectable in the Narnia books is certainly of the better kind.
Still, there are some rather backward ideas in those books, mostly concerning questions of "faith", and yes, they do get kind of annoying.