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[to_montana]

I just finished Pullman's "The Subtle Knife" of His Dark Materials and now I know that publishers are demons, I can't believe they ended it the way they did and I'm glad I don't have to wait 3-4 years for the Amber Spyglass to come out. I need to go out and get the next one but in the meantime, I'm going to start reading "The Tombs of Atuan". I

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[madpeaches]

yeah, the first two books are amazing. the third is where it gets really... murky. like, you sense some uncontrollable anger in the author coming out in his writings. o_O;; i did love the ending ending though. i really did. young adult literature needs to be more like this.

oh, and don't miss the homosexual angels. i missed that the first time around.

[to_montana]

my fantasy professor (the best class i've ever taken) told me that the trilogy was a reworking of paradise lost. that's pretty sick.

i really liked how the books picked up immediately from where the last one ended. but at the same time, he could have easily made the entire thing a book, it didn't have to be a trilogy at all, it didn't add to the story in any way.

but i'll look out for the homosexual anges. pullman really hates christianity and god.

[madpeaches]

yeah i think he was raised in it or something and wants to bring down the institution through his dark materials. very interesting, it is. still, the 3rd is rather shaky. it's not solid like 1 and 2.

[to_montana]

i bought the ugly versions of the book, i want to sell them and by the version with the gold emblems on them. and the third book looks to be signifantly longer too.

[metropolisnow]

i went to see the theatrical production of the first book, it was WEIRD.

if i remember correctly, wasn't earthsea a sci-fi channel movie? it had danny glover and the protagonist turned into an eagle and released some evil things that chased kristin kreuk. or something.
either way, what a great choice.

[to_montana]

you are absolutely right, earthsea was turned into a crappy tv-movie starring danny glover, the dude form the x-men movies, and kirst kreuk. i hope ghibli undoes the horrible travesty of a movie. you can watch the trailer on youtube.com if you search for earthsea, that desert sequence looks like a deleted scene out of naussica, it gets me really nostalgic.

and what was watching the northern lights like in theater? i know of a bbc production for the radio. where did you watch it? and if you thought the first one was bizarre, the second one takes it up a large notch.