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⌈ Secret Post #4478 ⌋

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Comments

Which do you prefer?

[dancing_clown]

Post 208: Aug. 1, 2007

Re: Which do you prefer?

[(Anonymous)]

On one hand, I got super bored and never finished Amber Spyglass. On the other, The Last Battle is possibly the most entirely obnoxious thing I've ever been forced to read in my life. So, y'know. I'm a bit split.

Re: Which do you prefer?

[(Anonymous)]

I agree with everything you wrote in this comment.

Re: Which do you prefer?

[(Anonymous)]

Same. I'm an atheist and couldn't get into the Pullman novels. I grew up on the Narnia books and can still enjoy some of them on some levels, but the preachy allegory kind of put me off even before I became an atheist.

Re: Which do you prefer?

[greghousesgf]

I'm an atheist but I also love fantasy so I consider the Narnia books just as much fantasy classics as LOTR. that being said I hated Last Battle though, for three main reasons:
1. the Susan situation
2. Killing off the Pevensie parents, which seems really unnecessarily cruel, especially since they didn't even know Narnia existed
3. I've said this before here many times but I'd be so pissed if I died and went to heaven and it really turned out to be everyone does nothing but run and eat fruit. That would bore me in ten minutes, never mind eternity!

Re: Which do you prefer?

[(Anonymous)]

Overall, I'd agree. Most of the Narnia books develop the fantasy better and the adventures are more engaging.

I like the idea of HDM so much more than the execution, mostly because I find Lyra insufferable. And, for a guy who's so down on Lewis for his over-the-top religious allegories, Pullman's anti-religious allegories are also eye-rollingly over-the-top. YMMV, obvs.