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fandomsecrets2018-06-26 06:43 pm
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(Anonymous) 2018-06-27 02:37 am (UTC)(link)I'm being sarcastic but like. only a little. and I think some of the hate for pullman's didacticism is actually hate for shitty things he's said in interviews that people read back into the books
and some of it is just....people who really liked the first book, which was a sparkling gem of weird worldbuilding and childhood adventures but 100% still had all the anti-church stuff in it, and by book 3 it's thundering wagnerian celestial fantasy with an axe to grind and a side of super weird awesome scifi, but as someone who likes childhood adventures AND epic celestial fantasy AND the bizarreness that was the mulefa, I loved it all the way through
and i think some of 'he's got an axe to grind and it's boring and it's the wooorst' is really just people not being into the genres and tones it becomes as the one it started in
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(Anonymous) 2018-06-27 03:14 am (UTC)(link)I really need to go back and reread the latter two books especially. I remember feeling that the anti-religious messaging really did get significantly more drastic and annoying in the third book, but it's possible that you're right and that I'd feel differently about it now. I do think a lot of it has to do with people not quite grasping all the genre and tonal shifts.
also, this is a really good post generally, and do you have a newsletter I can subscribe to or, like, a twitter I can follow or something