Book Eighteen
Jun. 10th, 2005 12:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ellyssianBook #18: His Dark Materials book three: The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman
In short, I liked it.
Again, I'm impressed. A book for kids, and the happily-ever-after is so bittersweet that the happy couple, the next-generation Adam and Eve, are forced to live in parallel worlds without any contact except sitting in the same spot for an hour every midsummer's night.
I was expecting that all integrity would be lost, and the author would use some trick to break his own rules that: they'd suffer and die in about 10 years if they stayed in a world that was not theirs originally; they had to give up the ability to cut windows through the worlds, or else they'd be condemning the dead to an eternity of endless nothingness instead of allowing them to become part of every living thing.
The author didn't bend to that, although I daresay it will be difficult to see if that ending is carried out when/if this makes the journey to the screen - haven't been following the status of that, but I heard it was headed that way; hopefully in the hands of the BBC instead of Hollywood.
To address some earlier comments given as warning on my review of book two: Yes, it did skip around quite a lot at the beginning. A lot of characters in a lot of different places needed tending to, and it was hectic. The dream-sequence bits were also odd, stopping and starting in the middle of sentences, but I found that an interesting device that added to the disconnected feeling of the drugged sleep the character was experiencing. The biggest problem with this skipping around as far as I'm concerned was of my own doing - I read approximately a chapter a week (or less!) until a few days ago. If I hadn't been sick, I probably would still be at that same point and pace...
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In short, I liked it.
Again, I'm impressed. A book for kids, and the happily-ever-after is so bittersweet that the happy couple, the next-generation Adam and Eve, are forced to live in parallel worlds without any contact except sitting in the same spot for an hour every midsummer's night.
I was expecting that all integrity would be lost, and the author would use some trick to break his own rules that: they'd suffer and die in about 10 years if they stayed in a world that was not theirs originally; they had to give up the ability to cut windows through the worlds, or else they'd be condemning the dead to an eternity of endless nothingness instead of allowing them to become part of every living thing.
The author didn't bend to that, although I daresay it will be difficult to see if that ending is carried out when/if this makes the journey to the screen - haven't been following the status of that, but I heard it was headed that way; hopefully in the hands of the BBC instead of Hollywood.
To address some earlier comments given as warning on my review of book two: Yes, it did skip around quite a lot at the beginning. A lot of characters in a lot of different places needed tending to, and it was hectic. The dream-sequence bits were also odd, stopping and starting in the middle of sentences, but I found that an interesting device that added to the disconnected feeling of the drugged sleep the character was experiencing. The biggest problem with this skipping around as far as I'm concerned was of my own doing - I read approximately a chapter a week (or less!) until a few days ago. If I hadn't been sick, I probably would still be at that same point and pace...
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