I actually really didn't like the novels. I found them bleak, nihilistic, and not very well written.
Ghavrel Send a noteboard - 26/11/2019 01:02:36 AM
And that's when I was in my atheist phase. I'm not entirely sure what I'd think of it now.
It also happens to have the single stupidest ending in the history of literature.
"We feel safe when we read what we recognise, what does not challenge our way of thinking.... a steady acceptance of pre-arranged patterns leads to the inability to question what we are told."
~Camilla
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~Camilla
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His Dark Materials - HBO and Novels
- 19/11/2019 03:45:54 AM
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I never read them, but my little brother (elementary school) had little use for them
- 19/11/2019 11:18:34 AM
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They reead like YA but have go pretty dark later on
- 19/11/2019 02:36:30 PM
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Re: They reead like YA but have go pretty dark later on
- 19/11/2019 06:00:02 PM
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She isn'tr the modren warrior waif that is all the rage these days
- 20/11/2019 01:43:59 PM
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The novels are very good and as RT says, more anti-religious authority than anti-religion.
- 19/11/2019 07:38:51 PM
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I liked the Golden Compass adaptation well enough. But then I read the book.
- 20/11/2019 06:28:44 AM
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The series is a strong adaptation, as of now...
- 20/11/2019 03:51:36 AM
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Ruth Wilson was phenomenal in The Affair. Glad to see the sticks the landing as Ms. Coulter *NM*
- 20/11/2019 06:21:59 AM
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Cannoli is very passionately angry about a series of books he has never read. *NM*
- 20/11/2019 07:29:36 PM
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To be fair...
- 20/11/2019 10:13:40 PM
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How do you know me as anything other than a fan of a number of anti-Catholic works?
- 21/11/2019 09:27:53 PM
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I might regret asking, but I'll do it anyway:
- 21/11/2019 09:43:02 PM
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You "sound" like my mother. Or my aunts. Or my sisters-in-law.
- 22/11/2019 04:38:58 AM
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You hear that particular introduction a lot, huh? Wonder why. 
- 22/11/2019 07:51:02 PM
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Catholics are 1/3, Black candidates are 4/4
- 23/11/2019 12:28:59 AM
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What was the quote / interview again that Umberto Eco had on lists?
- 23/11/2019 02:39:36 AM
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Failed nominations is about the party; losing candidates is about the US
- 23/11/2019 12:02:33 PM
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How? What did I say, beyond repeating another's opinions of something I freely admit I never read ? *NM*
- 21/11/2019 09:29:13 PM
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I actually really didn't like the novels. I found them bleak, nihilistic, and not very well written.
- 26/11/2019 01:02:36 AM
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