Ming, And Mato! NARNIA!

i had just read the first book of the chronicles of narnia. softcopy. great. sorry, but i can't think of any other adjective better than great. i'm actually quite sleepy.

the book. (stop. push that mouse over the back button if you hate spoilers) the magician's nephew. it was weird. really. you feel like you're reading something really childish. you crave for the next chapter after you've read the last sentence of the previous one. i say a lot better than harry potter. but still, it was for a child. and when an adult reads it, he grows younger. weird. again. and i had just discovered why..

the publisher of the reprinted copy of the narnia opted to follow the chronological order of the book.
1. The Magician's Nephew
2. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe
3. The Horse and His Boy
4. Prince Caspian
5. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
6. The Silver Chair
7. The Last Battle
it says there that you read the magician's nephew first. but the original copy has the following order:
1. The Lion..
2. prince.
3. the voyage
4. the silver
5. horsey
6. magician
7. last battle
i'm lazy repeating the exact words again but i hope it sinks in. seems that lewis wants his readers not to care about chronology but the essence of it. i've learned this in amazon. some comments were in uproar that the publisher made this wrong mistake. and i've read the magician when it's supposed to be read sixth! i'm now bothered i lost the "oooohhh.. that explains why.." factor. wooohooo..

disney set the "The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe" first. they chose the order of the original. so we should expect prince caspian boasting himself sometime next year. the voyage after that.. blah blah blah. like harry potter. seven books. seven movies. i was puzzled when i saw four kids in the movie posters and i doubted that my copy is indeed a narnian. i was searching for digory and polly but they gave me edmund, peter and others. yeah.. it was the second book they played. so you have the the lion the witch blahblah below chronicles of narnia.

read the book. even though you only have a softcopy. you just dry your eyes barely six hours (and i'm not talking miss bongon here who could read life of pi in 45 minutes) in front of your monitor and bless yourself you've sacrificed for something really worthy. or if you're a lorine cabrera, 3 hours. or a rina baratang, one, a miss bongon, 15 minutes? haha. witch-ly.

the first book is something of a genesis. it tells how narnia started, how come there are kings and queens there, how the witch arrived. the lion is the creator. the witch, the lucifer. the serpent who lures you into eating the apple. which really happened in the first book. there is no wardrobe but it will tell you why is here a wardrobe. it will tell why there is a lamp post in narnia when we thought of it as a Lord of The Rings scenery. and it was quite funny how it came there. the witch was funny too. how she looked awkward in earth.

read it.

writing in english tickles me.

CHRONICLES OF NARNIA
Ming, Ang Mato.

better movie, isn't it?