Terb’s PROFILE
My name isn’t actually TERB, but it’s a nickname I got from some friends years ago. You may not have noticed, but Terb is the reverse of Bret, which was my high school nickname (after the wrestler Bret Hitman Hart).
Anyway, thanks for dropping by and checking out this blog, where I write about my favorite book in the whole world – The Chronicles of Narnia. I have another blog where I write about my favorite things such as movies, websites, books etc. You can check it out here.
For any comments or suggestions, you may leave a comment here or send an email to me at terbidoodles@yahoo.com.
ENTERING THE MAGIC WARDROBE
The Chronicles of Narnia is my favorite book in the world, and that’s a difficult thing to decide on because I have lots of other favorites (such as The Lord of the Rings, Little Women, the Sherlock Holmes stories, etc).
I remember when I first entered the world of Narnia – it was on September 29, 2005. I was at work when I found out that my pregnant sister was rushed to the delivery room earlier that morning. I asked for an emergency half day leave from my boss since I wanted to be there for the birth of my niece. On the way to the Ayala MRT station to go to the hospital, I passed by Powerbooks to buy a book I could read while waiting.
Since the movie The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe was scheduled for a January 2006 release in the Philippines, I decided to buy and read the book before seeing the movie. There are 7 books in the series, and each book cost about Php250.00 each. I was initially planning to buy only the first book, The Magician’s Nephew, until I saw this huge collection containing all 7, which only cost about Php800.00. So I bought that copy instead to save money, thinking that if I liked the first book, I’d be sure to buy the other six, and to buy individual books at Php250.00 each would cost Php1,750.00.
After checking in on my sister, I started reading the first book. I am not exaggerating when I say that I could barely put it down. I think I read the entire thing in less than 4 days. I was still going to work and visiting my sister after work, so I had to take my meals really fast and stay up really late so that I could have a little more time to read.
It’s amazing. C S Lewis is a genius. I love The Chronicles of Narnia for the stories, for the characters, for the Christian undertones. Narnia isn’t a Christian allegory, it’s a story based on the following supposition, in the words of C S Lewis himself: “Let us suppose that reality contained different parallel worlds, and that in one of them the Son of God, as He became Man in our world, became a Lion there, and then imagine what would happen.”
The trade paperback (also called softbound as opposed to hardbound) book I bought in 2005 is now in tatters, so for my birthday in 2008, I bought the hardbound copy (along with the Harper Collins audio CD) through Amazon as a gift for myself.
If you’ve never read any of the seven Narnia books nor seen any of the Narnia movies, I strongly advise you to enter the world of Narnia and discover Aslan for yourself.
It’s wonderful to find someone else who loves C.S. Lewis and the Chronicles of Narnia as much as I do, you are certainly right… Lewis was a genius! If you haven’t read Mere Christianity I would recommend it to you, Lewis talks a lot about what it really means to be a Christian… by the way, which book is your favorite in the Chronicles of Narnia?
S.M.
Hello Sarah! Thanks for your comment. I haven’t read Mere Christianity, but I just bought a copy off Amazon and I’m so excited to finally read it!
My favorite book in The Chronicles of Narnia is The Silver Chair because Puddleglum is my all-time favorite literary character. The Horse and His Boy is a very close second because the chapter “The Unwelcome Fellow Traveler” always gives me chills. What about you?
That’s great that you get to read another C.S. Lewis work outside of the Narnia series, tell me what you think of it! I really like the Horse and His Boy as well, but I would have to pick the Voyage of the Dawn Treader as my all time favorite chronicle… there’s something very appealing about sailing the high seas on such a beautiful boat! :) Plus I love the ending where Aslan appears as a lamb at the end of the earth because it’s full of Christian symbolism. I usually like to read the Silver Chair when I’m in the mood to get a bit creeped out, since a lot of the story takes place underground… So which one of the Pevensies do you relate to (or like) the best? :)
My favorite is Edmund because he proves the point that “even a traitor may mend.”
If VDT is your favorite book, then I’m guessing you’re either really excited to see the film version or really scared to see what “artistic liberty” they’re going to do with it.
You’re absolutely right! It would be exciting to see the characters from the book personified in a movie, but at the same time it would be so easy to ruin a good thing like that book! I really like Edmund as well, but I think my favorite is Lucy… probably a stereotypical answer, but I guess that she’s the one I relate to the most. However, Peter and I share a lot of similarities because we’re both the oldest and I understand what he’s going through in the books because of that connection. Well, that was probably more information than you wanted, but I always get so excited when I find other people that are as passionate about these stories as I am!
S.M.
By the way, how’s Mere Christianity? (I purposely wrote you a bit later so that you would have time to read it!) :)