I never thought of the Wheelers and Oz, but you're right!
See, the second book started getting kind of gross for me*, and also killing off characters I liked. And then was it the third one where Lyra was asleep the whole time and everyone else I cared about was dead?
And the whole anti-Christian thing was just terribly, terribly unsubtle. I'll read books by people who aren't Christian. I'll read books by people who are vehemently anti-Christian and it shows up in their books, because religion in general and Christianity in particular have a lot to answer for. But I felt like Pullman was pounding me on the head, trying to force me to change my beliefs, and I kept wanting to shake him and go, "Would you just STOP?" I have friends who react to Narnia that way. But I think Lewis is (mostly) not nearly that bad (Also, in my opinion Narnia is an affirmation of Lewis's beliefs, whereas The Amber Spyglass just felt like an attack on everyone else's). Maybe that's just my perspective, though.
Yes, she does.
*It must be something about the way it's handled, b/c I can deal with mauling by lions no problem, but cutting off fingers was too much in this instance.
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Date: 2011-10-28 09:45 am (UTC)See, the second book started getting kind of gross for me*, and also killing off characters I liked. And then was it the third one where Lyra was asleep the whole time and everyone else I cared about was dead?
And the whole anti-Christian thing was just terribly, terribly unsubtle. I'll read books by people who aren't Christian. I'll read books by people who are vehemently anti-Christian and it shows up in their books, because religion in general and Christianity in particular have a lot to answer for. But I felt like Pullman was pounding me on the head, trying to force me to change my beliefs, and I kept wanting to shake him and go, "Would you just STOP?" I have friends who react to Narnia that way. But I think Lewis is (mostly) not nearly that bad (Also, in my opinion Narnia is an affirmation of Lewis's beliefs, whereas The Amber Spyglass just felt like an attack on everyone else's). Maybe that's just my perspective, though.
Yes, she does.
*It must be something about the way it's handled, b/c I can deal with mauling by lions no problem, but cutting off fingers was too much in this instance.