Joshua Gross’s Reviews > Prince Caspian > Status Update

“Golly! It’s a bit uncomfortable to know that we can be whistled for like that. It’s worse than what Father says about living at the mercy of the telephone.” If CS Lewis could only see us all glued to our smart phones now...

Ah, the new Madonna song: 'What it Feels Like for a Jinn '

I'm glad there's a reason they were magicked back to Narnia

"But, lobsters and lollipops!" Is he voting for what have nots on big brother get to eat?

"Since the Humans came into the land, felling forests and defiling streams, the Dryads and Naiads have sunk into a deep sleep."

More anti-industrialization sentiment like Lord of the Rings

Unfortunately, we had to stop the strong beginning narrative to dump in a bunch of exposition about Price Caspian. I think the book could have maybe incorporated these storylines better

Black dwarfs seem problematic, but I guess I shouldn't be surprised

This book does have a much stronger beginning than the previous, immediate action, mysterious premise

"But couldn’t we all swim long ago—if it was long ago—when we were Kings and Queens in Narnia? We could ride then too, and do all sorts of things. Don’t you think—”

“Ah, but we were sort of grown-up then,” said Peter. “We reigned for years and years and learned to do things. Aren’t we just back at our proper ages again now?”

So did everything you learn and experience just pop back out of your heads??

Surprising that the treasury contained long tusks of ivory in a land where the elephants could probably say something about it