On Mon, 29 Nov 2004, Erik Reuter wrote:
> I recently read the "His Dark Materials" trilogy by Philip Pullman, and
> while I enjoyed the story, I did find it lacking in a few areas,
> especially the third book (daemons appear for some formerly daemonless
> when you go into a daemon world but not always, specters can sometimes
> fly and sometimes not, ghosts can sometimes hold together outside the
> underworld and sometimes not, who is the "grace" who gave Lyra the power
> to read the alethiometer and then took it away, absurd ending "can only
> keep 1 window open" which was obviously just to make the bittersweet
> romantic stuff work out, etc.) but what really amused me was reading the
> reviews on amazon.com. Instead of being critical about the shortcomings
> of the story, more than a few people complained about the books being
> marketed to young people and either specificially stated or strongly
> implied that parents need a chance to indoctrinate their children with
> religion before it is safe to expose children to Pullman! Heh. I guess
> the religion fungus can only reliably grow in the dark.
Oh, as if you aren't going to get your children to the age where they CAN
read Pullman without having already let them know at least some of the
basics of your religious beliefs!
And, gee, maybe you can just monitor what they're reading, and when
they're done with the book, DISCUSS it with them!
Julia
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