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| The Ending of The Amber Spyglass Proving that you can't please everybody all of the time. |
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Negative View of the Ending (Will, Mar 14 2001) Speculation on the Afterwards (Jopari, May 24 2001) Hugs for everyone! (Adobe, Mar 14 2001) Desire is sweeter than Gratification (Kirjava, Mar 16 2001) The Subtle Knife (Adobe, Apr 19 2001) Internal consistency (Andrew, Apr 11 2001) Positive View of the Ending (Jazzie, Mar 25 2001) Not happy with a happy ending (Arcian, Apr 17 2001) Entertainment shouldn't be sad! (Lumbher, May 6 2001) More Praise for the Ending (Ashley, Jun 14 2001) Upon further reflection... (Karen, Jun 15 2001) Just accept it (Nick, Jun 20 2001) Frustrating and Heartbreaking (Jo, Jun 23 2001) Grasping at straws (Guildwick, Jun 24 2001) I'm sure Pullman will tell us... (Jo, Jun 24 2001) Please, just accept it (Nick, Jun 23 2001) Further grasping at straws (Guildwick, Jul 13 2001) Please? (Nick, Jul 13 2001) Inadequate rewards for saving the universe (NoFate, Oct 18 2001) The ending is the best part (Sophie, Oct 18 2001) Children don't know love (Adobe, Oct 18 2001) Disagreement (Lord Axiom, Oct 21 2001) The depth and width of maturity (Rachel, Oct 21 2001) Irrational Logic (Adobe, Oct 18 2001) No heroes (Meeks, Oct 18 2001) Loss of depth perception (NoFate, Oct 19 2001) |
| Early Speculation on a Movie Adaption of His Dark Materials A movie? Oh, that'll never happen... |
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Let's have a movie! (Oliver, Apr 20 2001) Let's not! (ladyjacaranda, Apr 26 2001) The question of narration (Alan Early, May 31 2001) Shying away from controversy (Nick, Apr 20 2001) Where are the meat and potatoes? (Arcian, Apr 21 2001) Distinctive plot (Adobe, Apr 22 2001) A movie would negate everything for which the series stands! (egarnaas, May 03 2001) Looking on the bright side (Isuael, May 06 2001) Let's not use special effects (Nick, May 12 2001) Do we need a movie? (celerity, Jun 09 2001) The Perfect Movie (Sophie, Nov 30 2001) About the movie rights (Nick, Dec 30 2001) |
| Sally Lockhart That other series by Philip Pullman |
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HDM vs. Sally Lockhart (and spoilers for both) (Ashley, Jun 14 2001) Sally's Nature (Adobe, Jun 17 2001) Sally's and Will's Nature (Ashley, Jun 17 2001) Recommended? (randa, Oct 09 2001) Soporific (Meeks, Oct 09 2001) Maybe it's cos I'm British... (Sophie, Oct 10 2001) They're not bad... (Adobe, Oct 10 2001) |
| The Naming of His Dark Materials Details about the title of the series |
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At the crossroad of the worlds (Guildwick, Jun 28 2001) God (randa, Jul 01 2001) Paradise Lost (Beth, Jul 08 2001) Northern Lights? (Leonora, Oct 08 2001) A Vocal Minority (Nick, Oct 08 2001) Naming Pattern (Adobe, Oct 09 2001) Sophie explains it all (Sophie, Oct 05 2001) His Dark Materials (Sophie, Dec 03 2001) |
| Sophie! A standard to which we all aspire |
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An introduction to the wornderful life of me (Sophie, Jun 07 2001) Squirrel Story (complete and unabridged) (Sophie, Jul 23 2001) Rereading (Sophie, Sep 11 2001) Reading the Series (Sophie, Oct 11 2001) |
| The Audio Version of His Dark Materials Which Philip Pullman reads |
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The audio recording? (randa, Jul 30 2001) Authentic cast (Nick, Jul 30 2001) What do you think about the audiocasettes? (Willover, Mar 09 2002) |
| Initial Reaction to September 11th Response from throughout the world |
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USA under attack (Nathan, Sep 12 2001) Re: USA under attack (Imperial Arch Angel, Sep 12 2001) Re: USA under attack (Nick, Sep 12 2001) Re: USA under attack (donut_magic, Sep 14 2001) Such a drama (Guildwick, Sep 12 2001) Re: Such a drama (Meeks, Sep 12 2001) Re: Such a drama (donut_magic, Sep 14 2001) Re: Such a drama (Meeks, Sep 14 2001) Re: Such a drama (Nick, Sep 12 2001) Re: Such a drama (Kate, Sep 12 2001) aaaaargh!! my rant (randa, Sep 14 2001) Re: aaaaargh!! my rant (Nick, Sep 14 2001) Re: aaaaargh!! my rant (isabel, Sep 14 2001) Re: aaaaargh!! my rant (Meeks, Sep 15 2001) terrorism again. OT. (Nick, Sep 15 2001) Re: terrorism again. OT. (Meeks, Sep 15 2001) Re: terrorism again. OT. (isabel, Sep 15 2001) Re: terrorism again. OT. (Nick, Sep 15 2001) Re: terrorism again. OT. (isabel, Sep 16 2001) Re: terrorism again. OT. (Nick, Sep 16 2001) Re: terrorism again. OT. (Meeks, Sep 15 2001) Re: terrorism again. OT. (randa, Sep 16 2001) War and People (randa, Sep 17 2001) Re: War and People (isabel, Sep 17 2001) Re: War and People (Kate, Sep 17 2001) Re: War and People (Nick, Sep 17 2001) Re: War and People (isabel, Sep 18 2001) Re: War and People (Kate, Sep 18 2001) Re: War and People (isabel, Sep 18 2001) Re: War and People (Kate, Sep 21 2001) Re: War and People (Nick, Sep 18 2001) Re: War and People (isabel, Sep 18 2001) |
| The Book of Dust The supplementary text to His Dark Materials |
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Book of Dust (Sophie, Oct 08 2001) Book of Dust - Query (Sam Heart, Dec 10 2001) Maps (Nick, Dec 10 2001) |
| Cover Art Proving that a picture is worth a thousand words |
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2001 American paperback (Nick, Oct 09 2001) Don't judge a book... (Jeff, Oct 09 2001) Lead piping! (Sophie, Oct 10 2001) Moisterized (Nick, Oct 10 2001) Amber Spyglass inside cover (Nick, Oct 24 2001) Tartan skirt (randa, Oct 24 2001) |
| Further Reaction to September 11th ...and in this corner, the rest of the world! |
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Hello (Kate, Oct 11 2001) Re: Hello (Nick, Oct 11 2001) Nick apologizes (Nick, Oct 11 2001) Re: Nick apologizes (Sophie, Oct 13 2001) Re: Nick apologizes (Adobe, Oct 13 2001) Spits out crumpet bits in anger and says... (Jeff, Oct 13 2001) America-bashing (Jeff, Oct 12 2001) Re: America-bashing (Adobe, Oct 13 2001) I agree but... (Jeff, Oct 13 2001) Re: I agree! (randa, Oct 13 2001) Re: I agree! (isabel, Oct 14 2001) Stuff (Aaron, Oct 14 2001) Re: Stuff (Sophie, Oct 14 2001) Citizens? (Adobe, Oct 14 2001) Some follow-ups (Jeff, Oct 14 2001) Re: Some follow-ups (isabel, Oct 14 2001) Re: Some follow-ups (Aaron, Oct 14 2001) Collective Unit (Adobe, Oct 15 2001) Re: Collective Unit (Jeff, Oct 15 2001) Kudos for Navigator Nebular... (Nick, Oct 15 2001) Re: Kudos for Navigator Nebular... (Adobe, Oct 16 2001) Re: Kudos for Navigator Nebular... (Aaron, Oct 16 2001) No opinion? (Jeff, Oct 16 2001) One thing... (Rachel, Oct 16 2001) Don't take the wrong context... (Aaron, Oct 16 2001) |
| Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling |
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Similarities (NoFate, Oct 26 2001) Different Motives (Meeks, Oct 26 2001) Harry Potter vs. Will Parry (Adobe, Oct 27 2001) Harry's crap (Sam Heart, Nov 16 2001) Harry is a carp (isabel, Nov 17 2001) Two different genres (Aaron, Nov 17 2001) The HP Movie (Nick, Nov 18 2001) Ranking (Sam Heart, Jan 25 2002) Literary Bigotry (Tinderblast, Jan 26 2002) A Work of Art (Rachael, Feb 01 2002) Uphill Both Ways (Aurora, Feb 01 2002) In Defense of HP (Tinderblast, Feb 02 2002) |
| Dust, Daemons, and Spectres Oh my! |
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Imagery (Ged Byrne, Nov 02 2001) The ability to be human (Aaron, Nov 02 2001) Symbolism (Ged Byrne, Nov 04 2001) Nature of Dust, according to Pullman (Sophie, Nov 12 2001) Spectres (Sam Heart, Dec 24 2001) Trauma (Lyra, Dec 31 2001) Mind, body, and soul (Tod, Jan 02 2002) Dust (Tialys, Jan 06 2002) Daemons (Tod, Jan 24 2002) |
| An Animated His Dark Materials But does Miyazaki agree with Pullman? |
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except for pearl harbor, japan rocks! (Asriel, Dec 14 2001) what a strange subject heading you have there (randa, Dec 14 2001) Agree/disagree (Jeff, Dec 14 2001) A magical land in the east (Adobe, Dec 15 2001) Perfected with anime (Asriel, Dec 15 2001) The Miyazaki factor (Adobe, Dec 15 2001) |
| Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien |
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LOTR, and an essay (Nick, Dec 23 2001) Mortal enemies (Adobe, Dec 24 2001) Lord of the Rings? Should I read it? (Atlanta, Dec 25 2001) Yes (Tod, Dec 29 2001) A Different Creature (Adobe, Dec 26 2001) About the movie (randa, Dec 29 2001) Boromir (Adobe, Dec 29 2001) Zombie Queen (randa, Dec 29 2001) Power and evilness (Adobe, Dec 29 2001) Strangely Silvery (Tod, Dec 30 2001) The Movie (Nick, Jan 25 2002) Effect after effect (Sophie, Jan 25 2002) Competent Adaption (Adobe, Jan 26 2002) Diegesis (Tod, Jan 26 2002) |
| The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper |
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Season's greetings... (Sean, Dec 26 2001) Powerful and Scary Tales (Jane, Dec 28 2001) Over Sea, Under Stone (Adobe, Dec 29 2001) |
| Literary Influences Where do we start? |
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My brain hurts... (Tod, Jan 01 2002) Over-intellectualizing (Adobe, Jan 01 2002) Further over-intellectualizing (Tod, Jan 01 2002) |
| The Edenic Myth Colliqually known as "Matt's Thesis" |
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Musings and Whatnot (Quill and Scroll, Jan 03 2002) Didactic Response (Tod, Jan 04 2002) Something for Matt (Lyra, Jan 04 2002) Matt Responds (Quill and Scroll, Jan 04 2002) Can't Resist... (Tod, Jan 04 2002) Greek Epics (Quill and Scroll, Jan 05 2002) Countering Tradition (Aurora, Jan 05 2002) Complexity (Tod, Jan 06 2002) |
| Further Discussion of the Ending of The Amber Spyglass It's a topic that never gets old |
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The Great Temptation (bumpus, Jan 04 2002) Christain Filter (Quill and Scroll, Jan 05 2002) Questions (Di Dougio, Jan 16 2002) Skip The Amber Spyglass (NoFate, Jan 16 2002) Skip The Amber Spyglass? (Adobe, Jan 17 2002) The Amber Spyglass (fritzgreatlakes, Jan 17 2002) A Good Kind of Sad (Aurora, Jan 17 2002) Waxing Sentimental (Quill and Scroll, Jan 17 2002) Loss of Mystery and Greatness (NoFate, Jan 18 2002) |
| The Nature of Destiny Predicting the end of prediction? |
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Destiny (Asriel, Jan 05 2002) Beyond Fate (Quill and Scroll, Jan 06 2002) Quantum Physics and Destiny (Tod, Jan 06 2002) Modern Quantum Physics (NoFate, Jan 18 2002) A Stretch (Tialys, Jan 06 2002) Quantum Particles are Fun (Adobe, Jan 06 2002) |
| Religion! Opiate of the masses |
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Catholicism (Methodic, Jan 08 2002) Comparison (Meeks, Jan 08 2002) Blasphemy (Aaron, Jan 08 2002) Self-examination (Quill and Scroll, Jan 09 2002) To be fair (Aurora, Jan 09 2002) Strong Faith (Ivan, Jan 09 2002) Protestant Inquisition (Rachael, Feb 21 2002) The Ending of The Amber Spyglass (Methodic, Jan 17 2002) Summary of Ensuing Conversation (Adobe, Mar 15 2002) |
| The Chronicles of Narnia By C. S. Lewis |
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Susan (Adobe, Jan 13 2002) Hidden Agenda (Aurora, Jan 14 2002) Only Human (fritzgreatlakes, Jan 14 2002) The Question of Susan (Quill and Scroll, Jan 14 2002) Susan's Fate (Adobe, Jan 14 2002) Post-Structuralism (Tod, Jan 18 2002) The Anti-Lewis (Rachael, Feb 08 2002) |
| Pullman and His Politics He will not go quietly into the night |
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Little opinionated git... (Sam Heart, Jan 25 2002) Homosexuals, Heretics, and Women (Adobe, Jan 25 2002) The nature of heresy (Rachael, Feb 01 2002) |
| The Church Source of Eternal Controversy |
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Lyra's Church (Tod, Jan 26 2002) The Canadian View (Aurora, Jan 26 2002) Jesus and Beer (Adobe, Jan 26 2002) Fantasy Church (Aaron, Jan 26 2002) |
| Reading Lists Medium for the transmission of new ideas |
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Any Reading Suggestions? (Everyone, Jan 27 2002) SnowCrash (Aurora, Jan 27 2002) The Name of the Rose (Quill and Scroll, Jan 27 2002) Umberto Eco (Tod, Jan 28 2002) Forgot about Pavic (Tod, Jan 28 2002) Hypertext Novels (Quill and Scroll, Jan 28 2002) |
