Audience Participation Friday: Your Least Favorite Narnia Book

Earlier this week I mentioned that The Voyage of the Dawn Treader is my least favorite of the seven Narnia books. I clarified that I love all the Narnia books; I just love VDT a little less than I love the other six books. It's true that I consider Eustace's dragon sequence to be among the very best scenes of the Chronicles. But as I said in a comment earlier this week, "My biggest problem with VDT (and it’s not a huge problem) is that I don’t much like its episodic structure. Something about it feels cheaty to me, as if Lewis wanted to work in a lot of different little stories, and instead of figuring out a unified story that would let him tell those stories, he just let his characters bounce from place to place. That, I realize, is what some readers love about that book. The Odyssey works the same way, and nobody complains. I should also confess that The Charlatan’s Boy can be a little episodic itself, so I don’t have a lot of room to talk."

Speaking of cheaty, how cheaty is that--quoting oneself from earlier in the week, and not even the body of the post but a comment!

Anyway, a couple of you chimed in to speak of your favorite Narnia book(s), but we didn't hear much about people's least favorite book. So today's Audience Participation discussion topic is this: "Which Narnia book do you love the least, and why?" Here's hoping for vigorous (though, of course, friendly) debate.