I'm currently rereading the Narnia series, and it's all pretty much as I remember - two books I loved, one I loathed (seriously, The Last Battle can go die in a fire), and the rest.

Prince Caspian is one of the rest. It's alright, and there's the odd sparkling moment, but it's not one of the ones I come back to. Primarily, I think, because you can see in it the beginnings of what I call The Susan Problem. While my favourite Narnian character comes off well in the beginning, she begins to go downhill pretty fast. I wouldn't mind bad behaviour if it weren't so often linked in the text with intimations that becoming an adult is a bad thing (Susan always trying to sound like a grown-up, for instance, to general sneers - noticeable that no-one ever dings the boys for wanting to be men, but growing into adult womanhood? BAD.) This is something that comes back to bite her - and by extension me - bigtime in TLB, but Caspian is where the rot begins, and from childhood I've never been able to make myself like it.