'Dirty Girls'
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
For those who like their romance reading spiced with rapid political rhetoric, there's a diary from the weekend on Daily Kos about romance novels.
There's a mention of Smart Bitches in the comments, and I was taking copious notes on what books I should read.
I just belatedly read the His Dark Materials trilogy. I knew Pullman was antireligious, but I now fail to understand why organized religion didn't join together for an ecumenical burning at the stake.
I now fail to understand why organized religion didn't join together for an ecumenical burning at the stake.
No kidding. I also couldn't figure out why certain parties didn't object to it being marketed as young adult.
It seemed to me like his main target was Catholicism. (I read them a few years ago, and was giving advance warning to a Catholic friend whose 9-year-old daughter was reading them a little after I did, for anything that she might want to discuss with her. I ended up giving some warnings for religious stuff and some for sexual stuff. Luckily, the girl stopped reading halfway through the second book, because I really would have had no idea what to tell her about the third.)
It's children's literature only in the sense that a child is the main protagonist.
but I now fail to understand why organized religion didn't join together for an ecumenical burning at the stake.
Well, they did successfully kill the movie.
The increasing anti-religious tone really soured me on the storytelling. It made me sad.
I'm not sure Pullman's anti-religious tone was any more pernicious than Lewis' Christian allegory, though.
I'm not sure Pullman's anti-religious tone was any more pernicious than Lewis' Christian allegory, though.
Yeah, that didn't ping me (in either Pullman or Lewis,) so I was kinda surprised by the reactions to them when I found 'em later. I tend to just sink into the author's mythologies when the story engages me.
I -- seriously -- didn't pick up on the Christ symbolism in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe when I first read it (at the age of 18).
I am sometimes dense.