by Laura Miller
This would be 3.5 if I could. The first two sections were really good, but it fell off a lot at the end (once Miller gets to Tolkien, the whole book starts to go downhill). Also, I lost the plot whenever she started referencing things I hadn't read. Her insights were easy enough to follow when I was...
When you pick up a book titled The Magician's Book: A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia, you probably assume it will be about one person's experience with The Chronicles of Narnia. Laura Miller fulfills that expectation to some degree, but this book is balanced between being an exploration of personal ...