you know, talking bears and baloonists are the only thing which has
remotely encouraged me to read them.
I'm planning to brutally slog my way through Handmaids Tale just so
I can complain in an informed manner about Atwood's butchery of
Christianity (read enough about the book from fairly neutral sources
to be discouraged). Maybe I should do the same with Pullman...but I dunno.
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Dude, the talking bears were my favorite part of Pullman. I
couldn't tell you anything about the overarching plot since I
slogged through the books, but the bears stick in my head. And the
baloonist guy.
Shannon
Bringing the discussion right back down to shallow superficiality
At 11:55 AM 6/20/2008, Elfqueen wrote:
Well, probably just "in trouble" with my parents, but there's a
lot of people that would probably want to lecture me if it got
out. (This is why I have told no one at church that I read Harry
Potter twice and plan to read them again.) There is a lot of
controversy over His Dark Materials. I'm not interested in them,
as I said, just because I don't go for a whole lot of the
humanized animal thing, and I hear, from the author himself, that
there's quite a bit of that (I can do some, like the talking
Eagles of Tolkien, just I don't like a whole lot in one book). But
you know people started raving when the movie came out. Even if I
don't want to read the books, I don't think it's right for them to
go on and on and on about "it's sooo bad and you shouldn't read it
if you're a Christian!" when they've never read it themselves! I
speak from experience here, and the fact that I don't want to read
these particular books is beside the point, it's about passing
judgment without prior knowledge.
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