Re: other books


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Posted by Peter Ceresole on January 12, 2009 at 21:17:43 user PeterC.

In Reply to: other books posted by Jock on January 12, 2009 at 14:33:53:

The Dark Materials Trilogy is different, but to me at least, shows that the Pullman read, and was influenced. by AR.

In what way, Jock? I've read the Pullman books (as well as AR, of course) and I'm quite sure that Pullman will know AR's work well, but I can't see their books as being related morally, philosophically, stylistically or through their characters or stories.

Of course that doesn't prevent me from enjoying His Dark Materials, especially the first of the series, but frankly I'd rather read AR any day.

And this has nothing to to with the absence of sexuality in his books; in Pullman of course it's a fundamental part of the story, related to the idea of innocence and original sin and Pullman's clear idea that the church had perverted something good. But AR sets his stories at an age (age of the children, time in history) where the children wouldn't yet have been concerned with sexual relations with each other; he didn't duck the issue, it simply wouldn't have arisen.


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