I like The Horse and His Boy, but I would be really reluctant to rec it to anybody, for all the reasons you mentioned. It's very much a product of its time, but just because I can see the "grew up reading stories about the Crusades and Sir Richard Burton's Arabian Nights translation" origins doesn't make it okay.
I do tend to think that, with the exception of the Problem of Susan, The Last Battle manages to be less "Narnians good, Calormens bad" whichh re-contextualizes things a bit. I think that's strictly ymmv though, and a lot of people disagree with me.
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Date: 2010-11-13 09:58 pm (UTC)I do tend to think that, with the exception of the Problem of Susan, The Last Battle manages to be less "Narnians good, Calormens bad" whichh re-contextualizes things a bit. I think that's strictly ymmv though, and a lot of people disagree with me.