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Title: Still don't like it, now I know why
Review: I remember reading this book for school and being very excited about reading a classic. I also remember being very disappointed in it, though I probably couldn't have said why. Remembering this, I decided to try it again now that I'm older. And I still don't like it. The characters were one dimensional, you don't get to know them at all. It seems to be written by someone who thinks children are innocent little idiots who will be fascinated by anything with talking animals. There was also far more Christian allegory than I ever realized the first time I read it, not a bad thing necessarily, but it wasn't all that skillfully done. The main problem I had with it was that I cannot love a book without loving the characters, and these left me cold. It has none of the inventiveness of, for instance, the NIMH books, and made me wonder why CS Lewis ever tried writing for children when he is so ill-suited, though there are hundreds of reviewers who would disagree.
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