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Debi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-03-08 10:32 AM Original message |
I just finished the "His Dark Materials" Trilogy by Philip Pullman |
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Infomaniac (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-03-08 10:33 AM Response to Original message |
1. Thelast book was the best of the three. |
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ThomCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-03-08 10:40 AM Response to Reply #1 |
4. Okay, I am logged in as me now. |
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Debi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-03-08 10:41 AM Response to Reply #4 |
6. I would hug you but I don't want to hurt you |
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ThomCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-03-08 10:46 AM Response to Reply #6 |
10. Hi Debi! |
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Debi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-03-08 10:40 AM Response to Reply #1 |
5. I agree that book three was the best |
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The Velveteen Ocelot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-03-08 10:35 AM Response to Original message |
2. I love those books. |
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Debi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-03-08 10:42 AM Response to Reply #2 |
7. his dislike of 'The Church' is NOT thinly veiled! |
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tigereye (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-03-08 10:37 AM Response to Original message |
3. isn't he amazing? |
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Debi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-03-08 10:44 AM Response to Reply #3 |
9. Yes, amazing - but my stomach was in knots more that once |
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seaglass (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-03-08 10:43 AM Response to Original message |
8. me too...I finished last week and I loved them! Has anyone read |
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Debi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-03-08 10:46 AM Response to Reply #8 |
11. Me too - even though some of what was in the books bothered me |
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seaglass (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-03-08 11:21 AM Response to Reply #11 |
13. What bothered you? Ideas or outcome for some of the |
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Debi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-03-08 11:27 AM Response to Reply #13 |
17. Outcome for the characters - but the third book explained SO much of that. |
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TZ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-03-08 11:14 AM Response to Original message |
12. I enjoyed it |
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Debi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-03-08 11:29 AM Response to Reply #12 |
18. I did't feel overwhelemed though, I felt like the science was explained very well. n/t |
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TZ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-03-08 11:41 AM Response to Reply #18 |
24. Definitely. |
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deepthought42 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-03-08 11:22 AM Response to Original message |
14. Yea! |
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TZ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-03-08 11:26 AM Response to Reply #14 |
15. Somebody changed their sig line.... |
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deepthought42 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-03-08 11:31 AM Response to Reply #15 |
19. Oh, I think he was just being too polite... |
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Debi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-03-08 11:31 AM Response to Reply #14 |
20. You did? I was mad at the end of it. |
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deepthought42 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-03-08 11:33 AM Response to Reply #20 |
21. Oh I hated what Lord Asriel did! |
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Debi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-03-08 11:34 AM Response to Reply #21 |
23. You will enjoy two and three then - b/c there are some heart-wrenching parts in both |
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deepthought42 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-03-08 12:52 PM Response to Reply #23 |
32. I know that feeling... well I'm looking forward |
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WritingIsMyReligion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-03-08 04:24 PM Response to Reply #20 |
35. Pullman isn't a "happy" writer. (SPOILERS FOR BOOK THREE) |
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Debi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-03-08 04:55 PM Response to Reply #35 |
36. I actually liked the part when they were in the land of the dead, (more spoilers) |
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PassingFair (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-03-08 11:26 AM Response to Original message |
16. I like the second book the best. |
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Debi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-03-08 11:33 AM Response to Reply #16 |
22. I thought three explained so much of what happened in one |
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PassingFair (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-03-08 11:43 AM Response to Reply #22 |
25. It's been so long since I read them... |
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Debi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-03-08 11:46 AM Response to Reply #25 |
26. Yeah, that was three and I guess I saw it as a new beginning |
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PassingFair (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-03-08 11:48 AM Response to Reply #26 |
27. I got that....but OMG...it went on for....e-v-e-r..... |
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Debi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-03-08 11:53 AM Response to Reply #27 |
28. Ha! |
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PassingFair (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-03-08 11:55 AM Response to Reply #28 |
29. I thought that of the 3... |
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Debi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-03-08 12:11 PM Response to Reply #29 |
30. I wanted more of the witches! That's why I want to read Lyra's Oxford |
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PassingFair (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-03-08 12:39 PM Response to Reply #30 |
31. You might enjoy this, Debi... |
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Debi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-03-08 04:08 PM Response to Reply #31 |
33. Thank you for this! n/t |
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WritingIsMyReligion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-03-08 04:17 PM Response to Original message |
34. Dude, that trilogy is fuckin' amazing. |
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uppityperson (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-03-08 05:22 PM Response to Original message |
37. Pullman hits on a thing like Miyazaki does.We are mixtures of good and bad. |
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