Silver Chair is interesting, because there seems to be a big split between people who find it annoying, and people who love and adore it. I think it's just that the aspects many people love aren't big narrative kinks of mine, so I get more annoyed by the bits that I find tedious.

However, that's not to say I don't love lots of aspects of it. The Earthlings, that apocalyptic (euapocalyptic?) ending with the dancing salamanders and living gems, the gut-punch shock of Caspian the old man, the different reactions to eating the Talking Stag, PUDDLEGLUM WHOM I LOVE FOREVER. Puddleglum's speech about living as a Narnian that I hear quoted over and over in the unlikeliest of places, and it totally deserves it.

I mostly just a) got fed up as a child with Eustace and Jill's distractability, although I have more sympathy now, and b) never was convinced enough of Rilian's worth as a king to want to go to all this bother for him except for Caspian's sake. I'm sure he's very lovely and competent when he's not being enchanted to bubbly complacency every day, but we never saw enough of that other side for me to really feel emotionally invested in it.

...So yeah, about that ability to ramble about these books at a moment's notice. *laughing* I COULD TOTALLY GO ON.