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The Last Battle (Chronicles of Narnia, #7)
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bookshelves: favorites, fantasy, own, re-read-soon, soul-books
Oct 08, 2016
bookshelves: favorites, fantasy, own, re-read-soon, soul-books
Read 2 times. Last read July 30, 2017 to August 1, 2017.
This is only a partial review - someday - I will give this book the full review it deserves.
There are very few books that move me to my core. The depths of sadness and the heights of exhilaration captured in this book never fail to carry me with them.
The Last Battle by C.S. Lewis stirs a part of my soul so deep, so unknown - I can barely explain it. It awakens a desire for a place I have been searching for all my life. Hope soars through me as I stare into utter darkness, and I find myself knowing that I was born to fight - with everything in me - to the death for my Lord. That I am called to stand in the shadow of the Stable Door.
It also features one of my favorite male heroes of all time - King Tirian. Tirian could have ignored the call, he could have hidden at his hunting lodge and carved out a semblance of pleasure and prosperity - but he ran to the battle, he ran to his people, he ran to Aslan.
And he was the only person in Narnia that JUMPED through the Stable Door.
May I also run to the battle - may I someday jump through that door - mocking defeat and death and dragging the enemy in with me because I KNOW: "We all rest between the paws of the Lion."
“The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning.”
There are very few books that move me to my core. The depths of sadness and the heights of exhilaration captured in this book never fail to carry me with them.
The Last Battle by C.S. Lewis stirs a part of my soul so deep, so unknown - I can barely explain it. It awakens a desire for a place I have been searching for all my life. Hope soars through me as I stare into utter darkness, and I find myself knowing that I was born to fight - with everything in me - to the death for my Lord. That I am called to stand in the shadow of the Stable Door.
It also features one of my favorite male heroes of all time - King Tirian. Tirian could have ignored the call, he could have hidden at his hunting lodge and carved out a semblance of pleasure and prosperity - but he ran to the battle, he ran to his people, he ran to Aslan.
And he was the only person in Narnia that JUMPED through the Stable Door.
May I also run to the battle - may I someday jump through that door - mocking defeat and death and dragging the enemy in with me because I KNOW: "We all rest between the paws of the Lion."
“The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning.”
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Quotes Allison Liked
“I’d rather be killed fighting for Narnia than grow old and stupid at home and perhaps go about in a bath-chair and then die in the end just the same.”
― The Last Battle
― The Last Battle
“Yes,” said Queen Lucy. “In our world too, a stable once had something inside it that was bigger than our whole world.”
― The Last Battle (Chronicles of Narnia, #7)
― The Last Battle (Chronicles of Narnia, #7)
Reading Progress
Finished Reading
October 8, 2016
– Shelved
November 29, 2016
– Shelved as:
favorites
January 30, 2017
– Shelved as:
fantasy
March 13, 2017
– Shelved as:
own
July 30, 2017
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Started Reading
July 30, 2017
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35.76%
"Re-reading an old favorite. It's been too long since I've held Narnia in my hands.
I do believe that the scene when Farsight the Eagle tells of the fallen Cair Paravel, and Roonit lying dead, his last words: "All worlds draw to an end and thatn oble death is a treasure which no one is too poor to buy."
And then Tirian says: "So, Narnia is no more."
Truly the saddest scene in all of Narnia."
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103
I do believe that the scene when Farsight the Eagle tells of the fallen Cair Paravel, and Roonit lying dead, his last words: "All worlds draw to an end and thatn oble death is a treasure which no one is too poor to buy."
And then Tirian says: "So, Narnia is no more."
Truly the saddest scene in all of Narnia."
July 31, 2017
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38.89%
"I always laugh at this scene!
"Jill, I must as well tell you I've got the wind up."
"You're all right, I'm just shaking."
"Shaking's nothing - I feel as if I'm going to be sick."
"Don't talk about THAT, for goodness sake."
Love their stiff-upper-lip. :D <3"
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112
"Jill, I must as well tell you I've got the wind up."
"You're all right, I'm just shaking."
"Shaking's nothing - I feel as if I'm going to be sick."
"Don't talk about THAT, for goodness sake."
Love their stiff-upper-lip. :D <3"
July 31, 2017
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48.61%
"The emotions are coming thick n' fast.
Emeth! <3
Lewis obviously felt about cats and dogs the same way I do. :D
Dwarves! 'grinds teeth'
Thanks, Tirian - I've wanted to do that to Shift since page 1
OOOHHHH! THE BEAR THE HORSES! :(
Eustace screaming and dancing in rage at the dwarves is totally me - exactly how I react to injustice.
'gasps' No! More reinforcements!
EUSTAAAACE!!!!!"
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140
Emeth! <3
Lewis obviously felt about cats and dogs the same way I do. :D
Dwarves! 'grinds teeth'
Thanks, Tirian - I've wanted to do that to Shift since page 1
OOOHHHH! THE BEAR THE HORSES! :(
Eustace screaming and dancing in rage at the dwarves is totally me - exactly how I react to injustice.
'gasps' No! More reinforcements!
EUSTAAAACE!!!!!"
August 1, 2017
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52.08%
"So sad that I've known Christians like the dwarves - forever sitting in the stable, refusing to go further up and further in. So legalistic that they can see nothing good, nothing permissible - everything is forbidden. Seeing the roots and dirt and worms of a plucked flower - instead of the bloom. "So afraid of being taken in that they won't be taken out." :("
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150
August 1, 2017
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Finished Reading
September 6, 2018
– Shelved as:
re-read-soon
April 15, 2024
– Shelved as:
soul-books
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Dec 08, 2017 06:35AM
This review is awesome. <3333
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Olivia wrote: "This review is awesome. <3333"Thank you! :)
Love that quote. It definitely gives a sense of foreshadowing.
Mary wrote: "Love that quote. It definitely gives a sense of foreshadowing."Zane - thank you!!
Mary - yes, it does!
Amazing review, Allison! You have a way with words . . .
Becca wrote: "Amazing review, Allison! You have a way with words . . ."Aw, thank you, Becca! <3
You summed this up perfectly 💛
Ahh, thank you so much, ladies! <3
This is the only Narnia book I've not yet read, but am now dying to. Lovely review!
Kelly Rose wrote: "This is the only Narnia book I've not yet read, but am now dying to. Lovely review!"AW, thank you so much! That makes me so happy!
I just finished this book and love your review. King Tirian was awesome, as was the whole story. I had to actually put the book down (not because I wanted to) right as the battle around the stable began. Until I could get back to it, I kept wondering, "What's in the stable?" I actually never would have guessed.
