I read them as a teen and i loved them all. The movie was a disappointment to how i viewed the children and the world. Although my daughter loves the movie never having read the book.
Read the books when I was a kid.
And seen the movie aswell.
Loved them both!!
Also got a part of the BBC series on DVD (but haven't seen all the episodes yet).
I've read the whole series just about every year since I was 10, and I love every movie they have ever done. the whole series has a soft spot in my heart.
And yes, Lewis does borrow liberally from Classical mythology, and a bit of mideastern.
Well, the lines between Christianity and Eastern Mythology are fuzzy- you ought to know that
I was more referring to how he drags things out of 1001 Arabian Nights, and talks about djinni, and all that. Even in Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, the Beavers tell the Pevensies that Jadis is half djinn, half giantess, or somesuch. They also call her a daughter of Lilith- very specifically not a Daughter of Eve.