Robin McKinley

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Julia wrote on Thu, 05 November 2009 21:21

You have read Pullman's His Dark Materials series (Golden Compass etc) right? ...just checking. And PBS did a Masterpiece Mystery or whatever of the first two of the Sally Lockhart books. And they probably are working on the last one. I saw both Ruby and Shadow ...Not bad, either, though not as good as the books. These things never are. Well, almost never.

I have not read the Golden Compass ect. Did you enjoy it or were you thinking "why does he dislike C. S. Lewis so much, just because he is a Christian?"

The reason I got Ruby in the Smoke was because of the Masterpiece Mystery viewing of it that I saw, and thought that looks like it would be an even better book.

Thank you for the recommendation of the other books.

[Updated on: Fri, 06 November 2009 16:56]

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I have not read the Golden Compass ect. Did you enjoy it or were you thinking "why does he dislike C. S. Lewis so much, just because he is a Christian?" The reason I got Ruby in the Smoke was because of the Masterpiece Mystery viewing of it that I saw, and thought that looks like it would be an even better book.

RE: Golden Compass...
Not at all.
Granted, I first read the books in third grade.
But my mother would never ever have given them to me if she even suspected that they were overtly anti-Christian.

I think that the whole thing has been blown wildly out of proportion. I never ever even thought about that, because while the Church in the books is portrayed a certain way, and often in a rather negative light, I always made the distinction between the Church as it exists in the book and the beliefs that I have in real life. It is clearly fantasy, and so it never struck me as "anti-church for real", if that makes sense... (And most of the upset has been since the movie, which is much worse in that regard than anything that the book might have done. So exaggerated and stereotyped "bad-guy church official". Not like the book at all.)
Where was I going with this? I forget. But if you want me to go on more about this, send me a message, and I'd be delighted.

Um. C.S. Lewis?
Am I forgetting something? Where does it say that Pullman doesn't like Lewis? It hasn't been that long since I reread the books, and I don't remember that.
I like C.S. Lewis very much.

Oh, so you've seen the PBS thing! Cool. I'm glad that it made you want to read the book. I hope you like it even more, then!

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Ah. Hmm. Never saw those. Hmmm.
And yet. I am reminded of these:
http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20080204
http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20080205
http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20080208

Because while I might beg to differ with Pullman on some of his personal beliefs, then, it doesn't alter the fact that I like his books!
It is the whole 'Everyone is entitled to his or her own views, and everyone is entitled to disagree, etc.etc.etc.' that I was about to launch into, but no one really needs to hear it here, I'm sure. I happen to be Catholic, and very involved and strong in my faith and all that, but at the same time was able to separate the fantasy world from the one in which I live. If I had read it as a direct attack on what I hold to be true and important, I might be approaching this differently... but I didn't and don't.

Thank you for the quotes, Ravenclawgirl! Aand I'll stop going on about this now.

Edited to add Robin's review of the film, back from the livejournal days... http://robinmckinley.livejournal.com/2008/01/02/

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