Why won't you admit that the books were originally published with The Magician's Nephew as the intended (at the time) Book 6?
Publishers have rearranged them, and until some time in the 1980's, people did NOT read them in chronological order, and had NO problem understanding them.
Did you have trouble understanding Star Wars because Revenge of the Sith wasn't made until 25 years later?
The Star Wars analogy is perfect. The order goes 4,5,6,1,2,3,7,8,9.
Big Sky, I guess if you had your druthers, we could wait until Lucas is dead, and then rearrange the order to make them easier to follow.
I posted this earlier, but it should be reposted.
Here's a link about the order of the books:
http://www.aslan.demon.co.uk/narnia.htm
It's interesting.
Forgot to add, that I think readers of the book are making a bigger deal out of the order than C.S. Lewis did.
I think it may be a personal choice.
Nope, that's not what I am saying. I'm saying I didn't have a problem following them no matter which order they were in.
Did you have trouble understanding Star Wars because Revenge of the Sith wasn't made until 25 years later?
No, because the Sith goes further back into time when Luke Skywalker was a little boy chronologically and historically speaking. Just because it was made 25 years after the original Star Wars doesn't mean it's out of sequence. Anyone who has seen the original Star Wars made 25 years ago isn't going to be confused with Star Wars: Revenge Of The Sith because like the original, it has all the central characters everyone is familiar with. Sith just basically takes the viewer further back into history, and one who has seen the original 25 years ago, can say, "Ah! So that's how Darth Vader ended up on the dark side", even though the viewer realized 25 years ago that at one point in chronological history Darth was on the good side.