Sheesh

Very nearly through Dawn Treader on my first march through Narnia.

Lewis is rather an opinionated, snotty bastard, isn't he? I'm actually kind of shocked at the amount of blatant sociopolitical opining in these. Not just from the religious perspective, which I expected, at least in the occasional allegorical forms, but in direct statements about things like taxes and monarchies.

There's similar moralizing in Oz, but at least Baum had the excuse of writing 50 years earlier.