The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe--for a seminar I'm leading for the honors program here at UTM.
Don Quixote--something I've always wanted to read, because it's so important for the period I study. Plus, I'm a sucker for monstrous books (Moby Dick, One Hundred Years of Solitude, The Faerie Queene, and so on).
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CAC and BC have successfully shamed me because I haven't yet Wind in the Willows -- which is admittedly an enormous gap in my sweep of British lit.
Hey, did you actually see LWW in the theatre?
Sure did. Peter = lame; Aslan's voice = weak; Lucy = delightful; Mr. Tumnus = a little creepy; The White Witch = awesome!
And I've not read The Wind in the Willows either. Been thinking about reading it to JD.
I thought the WW looked amazing in the movie posters with her crown of icicles, though I've always imagined her with black hair -- probably because of the PB pen-and-ink illustrations of her earlier incarnation as Lilith in The Magician's Nephew.
You know, Aslan's voice is exactly the reason why I didn't go see the movie. I didn't want to have any voice (or image, really) of him in my head except for what's already there. Tolkien I can disassociate from the movies (Viggo's sure as hell not my Aragorn; that's NOT my Arwen, etc.), but Narnia ... those books have been there too long for me to even risk them being tampered with. I would be crushed if I had Liam Neeson's voice in my head the rest of my life whenever I read Aslan.
I was going to ask if Willows is a little ambitious for the boy, but I suppose you have to start somewhere!
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