Yes, setting a book on a ship makes all sorts of things better ;^)
Another great thing about Dawn Treader is the opening line: "There was a boy named Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it." Of course there's lots not to like, such as the clunky anti-feminism and the usual dose of heavy-handed allegory, but this is one I still enjoy re-reading even now that some others that I loved as a kid (notably The Horse and His Boy) now make me kind of twitchy. (And then there's The Last Battle, which I read once, put back on the shelf, and never opened again. EndingFAIL.)
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Date: 2010-12-20 03:33 am (UTC)Another great thing about Dawn Treader is the opening line: "There was a boy named Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it." Of course there's lots not to like, such as the clunky anti-feminism and the usual dose of heavy-handed allegory, but this is one I still enjoy re-reading even now that some others that I loved as a kid (notably The Horse and His Boy) now make me kind of twitchy. (And then there's The Last Battle, which I read once, put back on the shelf, and never opened again. EndingFAIL.)