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.
I didn't create the troll. I didn't date the troll. In fact I hate the troll. I helped deflate the troll-- All done.
Willow ,'Potential'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
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."
Dana - Jan 01, 2010 3:57:50 pm PST #10715 of 28370
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Hil R. - Jan 01, 2010 4:00:28 pm PST #10716 of 28370
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
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.)
Ginger - Jan 01, 2010 4:00:31 pm PST #10717 of 28370
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
It's children's literature only in the sense that a child is the main protagonist.
DavidS - Jan 01, 2010 4:08:10 pm PST #10718 of 28370
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
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.
§ ita § - Jan 01, 2010 4:21:00 pm PST #10719 of 28370
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
The increasing anti-religious tone really soured me on the storytelling. It made me sad.
Beverly - Jan 01, 2010 4:30:33 pm PST #10720 of 28370
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
I'm not sure Pullman's anti-religious tone was any more pernicious than Lewis' Christian allegory, though.
sarameg - Jan 01, 2010 4:39:59 pm PST #10721 of 28370
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.
Steph L. - Jan 01, 2010 5:36:23 pm PST #10722 of 28370
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
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.
§ ita § - Jan 01, 2010 7:18:15 pm PST #10723 of 28370
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I was a different age from when I read Narnia. But I found Pullman shrill and vicious, not something whose converse I remember from Lewis.
Beverly - Jan 01, 2010 8:09:36 pm PST #10724 of 28370
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
I read them all as an adult. Halfway through two, Pullman started to give me a tic. But the Narnia books rang with the sounds of anvils. Children or YAs probably wouldn't notice so much.