His Dark Materials stills up
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I hope the films are so good that I'll be bawlin my eyes out at the very last scene of the last film. Which is, now that I think of it, maybe one of my favorite ending-endings I've ever read.
Also if I randomly punch you in the face sometime it's because I used my Bene Gesserit training to foresee that at some point in the future you'd say "The name's Asriel. Lord Asriel. Hurr hurr hurr. Because it's James Bond get it?"
my best line from the 80s
Date: 2007-01-05 09:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-01-05 09:29 pm (UTC)come to think of it, i didn't read all the dunes either.
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Date: 2007-01-05 10:34 pm (UTC)What am I missing about the Dark Materials saga? I should also point out that the Harry Potter saga fails to capture my imagination.
Am I just getting to old for fantasy?
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Date: 2007-01-05 11:42 pm (UTC)Don't remember how much Dune I read. Too much, no doubt.
I don't think it's an age thing, but I'm not sure what it is, as I have friends on both sides of this issue. (then again, I have friends who liked AI)
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Date: 2007-01-06 01:28 am (UTC)There is so much fiction of all genres out there now, and most of it is just dreck. I just don't have the time to wade through all of the crap fantasy and sci-fi out there like I did when I was a teenager (I used to read 5-10 books per week). I do enjoy the good ones, when I get enough pointers from other people to know they are worth the effort.
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Date: 2007-01-06 09:20 pm (UTC)I never got through the first chapter of Dune, and felt HDM was not quite there. I've enjoyed the Harry Potter books. For what it's worth my kids (ages 12 and 14, and big fantasy fans) weren't too keen on HDM either.
Personally, I have long had a rule that I don't read books with pronouns in the title--it's just way too cheap a narrative hook. I forgave Pullman that because it's a quote from Milton and all, and lots of people raved about the books. But they just lacked something, and I've never been able to figure out what it is. One aspect may be the relative lack of humour. Maybe I'm just superficial, but stories that take themselves too seriously, even ones about the end of the multiverse, don't grab me much.
All of which is too bad, because I think Pullman's crypto-gnostic theology is pretty cool.
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Date: 2007-01-05 10:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-01-05 10:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-01-07 02:05 am (UTC)So my big hope for the movie is that someone -- and I really don't care whether it's Pullman -- is able to come up with a completely new ending. Ideally, one synthesized from the elements of _TGC_.
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Date: 2007-01-07 04:13 pm (UTC)Yes, I actually wasn't all that impressed by the larger resolution of the story, as much as I really liked the bittersweet final scene.