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BOOK TEN: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

Excellent. I would say this was my favourite so far. Whether this is due to the fact that I suspect "At World's End" stole some of the ideas for their depiction of the edge of the world or not I cannot say, but anyway. Eustace is hilarious. He adds a liveliness to the scenario and keeps it from being boring at the beginning while the not overly exciting things are happening yet.

My favourite quote?

"He was a very humane killer too, for he could dispatch a beast with one blow of his tail so that it didn't know (and presumably still doesn't know) that it had been killed."

Comments

[nuranar.livejournal.com]

I knew you'd like it! I haven't seen "At World's End," but I thought of the Dawn Treader just from the title and then from the trailer. Dawn Treader really takes on a life of its own. Rather unusual, because often quest/journey type stories become fairly predictable and episodic. This one is... sort of... but not quite, and it all works extremely well.

The whole Eustace-dragon episode is one of my favorites. :D

[butterbobbin.livejournal.com]

That's what I thought too - even the specific use of the words "world's end"! The part that really made my heart leap up was when he described the stars seeming to hang so close to the boat. These captures?





So floating on stars

WOW. I think what made the book brilliant was its ability to create a mood and bring the unusual scenery vividly to the mind's eye.

[nuranar.livejournal.com]

That's beautiful.

That is strikingly true. And it's not so much that he does it, but it does it in short, simple language. Tolkien does it just as well if not better, but he's a genius with words and creating lyrical prose. Lewis gets a shading of the same effects with a very different technique.