Posted by alan truelove on February 06, 2006 at 21:10:20 from 12.191.193.73 user atruelove.
In Reply to: Re: Phillip Pullman - New TV series posted by Jock on January 14, 2006 at 00:00:22:
Thanks for advice!
I have now read (or skipped thru) most of Arctic Nights - for some reason the next 2 books are taking their sweet time coming..
OK for adults, actually. I am reminded of Sylvie & Bruno, which - skipping the religion (as eveyone does) - and with the Complete Works of LC appearing in cheap format just after WWII - became a culty book for some of my schools chums which lasted all our lives.. (and is picked up by the next generation quite easily). (The complete texts are on the Internet. No pictures but then the 1946 edition didnt have any either)
Arctic Nights has the same Oxford inspired fantasy background, but I would say is much harder going. You would have to be a really bookish Hi-IQ 12 year-old to take to it. It isn't - erm- in the brutal, sexual realism mode of Judy Blume (it's incredible that her books are 'allowed', in fact they aren't), and nor does it have the enormous immediate -if now dated- appeal of AR. But for adults, definitely a good read. Thanks for the links!