Back on the vein of C. S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia, I believe we have three books yet to go through.
After Prince Caspian comes The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. The movie for this book almost reached the amazingness of the movie for The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. At any rate, it was much better than Prince Caspian. Concerning the storyline of the book, King Caspian has set out on a sea voyage, searching for the seven lords his evil uncle banished. Edmund, Lucy, and Eustace show up on the Dawn Treader for no apparent reason. Personally, I'm of the opinion Eustace needed Narnia the same way Edmund did in his first trip, more than Narnia needing anything out of their visitors from another world.
The next in the series is The Silver Chair. Sadly, I'm not a big fan of these last two books. It's like the quality has decreased or something. At any rate, Eustace and Jill show up in Aslan's country, and he sends them to Narnia with a mission: Save the king's long-lost son. Their journey is peppered with odd dangers and grating arguments, as Eustace and Jill spend the entire time fighting and blaming the other for things gone wrong.
The final Narnia book is The Last Battle, and it depicts Narnia in its final days, then the end of the world of Narnia. I'll admit it, I'm not a big fan of this type of book in general, so Lewis's attempt at it was doomed for a less-than-thrilled reaction from me no matter how great a job he did. The series in general is pretty awesome; I just much prefer the first five books over the last two.
Maybe tomorrow I'll talk a little bit about the series in general, now that the individual books have been described.
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