What a shitbrick. I am glad I never got into her books in the first place. I saw the first movie and had no interest in seeing the others. I read half the first book to my daughter and she got bored with it, so we stopped. My wife got really into her and is disappointed neither of us are, but fuck her. I don't want to spend a dime on her.
Edit: Weird part- she's always been an atheist and she loved the Narnia books.
They're basically one big Christian analogy. They're infinitely better written and more appropriate for children to have anything to do with than the bible, though.
The funny thing is we can blame Tolkien for that. It was Tolkien who got Lewis to convert, though he became a protestant while Tolkien was a Catholic, and hilariously Tolkien found Lewis' use of Christian symbolism too overdone and lacking in subtlety.
I'm just very tickled at how much it backfired - Lewis turned outright anti-Catholic. If I'd been a religious man I might have tried to read something into that (but I'm not, so).
I never read the bible and the little I retained from the Narnia Chronicles resumes to talking creatures battling over the common trope of good vs evil.
I'm an atheist and I was able to take some entertainment from those works without feeling dragged into a christian analogy.
Okay, that point is clear but, again, to what degree the author of the Harry Potter series being an atheist prevents her from enjoying the Narnia Chronicles as just a fantasy series?
We're both atheists and we managed. Although you were able to read more between the lines; for me, the talking lion was just that.
I have to be honest, I read the Narnia Chronicles as a child, and never once made the leap of "wait, is this allegory for that stuff they make us sing about at school?".
Because allegories aren't always super obvious. If it had been, the series wouldn't have been anywhere near as successful or indeed worth reading at all 🤷
I've never read the books, but I did enjoy the movies, and it's really disappointing. I have the DVDs, so I guess I could still watch those knowing it won't signal any continued demand the way streaming them would, but still.