[lbo-talk] Marketing the Chronicles of Narnia

[Liza Featherstone]

I read the whole series several times as a child. I would agree - they are
reactionary, but they are really great reading and you should definitely
give them as a present to your kid.

Liza


> From: Gar Lipow <the.typo.boy at gmail.com>
> Reply-To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 15:10:06 -0800
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Marketing the Chronicles of Narnia
> 
> On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 16:25:56 -0500, Max B. Sawicky
> <sawicky at bellatlantic.net> wrote:
>> Anybody read these?  I was thinking of
>> making them a present to my little one,
>> who is a voracious reader.
>> 
>> mbs
> 
> Definitely propaganda for a fairly reactionary, anti-worker,
> anti-woman brand of Christiantity  - arguably racist/anti-semitic as
> well though this is not quite as clear.  Also a marvelously written
> work, some of the greatest fantasy ever written. If I confined my
> reading to works that have a compatible world view with mine this
> would reduce literature available to me by 99% - so I never let stuff
> like that stop me. What you want to give to a kid is another question,
> so I leave that to you as a parent. Great characters, marvelous world
> building, poetic language, pathos, humor - and indisputably
> reactionary.
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