I found out about them through two sources - I frequent book stores a lot. Have two within walking distance, and one of the two book stores is an indie and displayed these books as staff pics and best-sellers for that store. The other source was the ATPO board which is frequented by a lot of copy-editors, writers, librarians, teachers, and professors - who read for a living - and adore fantasy. They talked about the books quite a bit. Several, in fact, preferred the books to the Narnia ones.
I do. Narnia has some really disturbing themes - that I didn't notice as a child, but were obvious to me when I saw the film. Pullman's book addresses those themes as well as some of the more disturbing bits of Judeo-Christian religion. In some ways it is a critique of Christianity and Judeaism by an athesist.
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Lots of people haven't.
I found out about them through two sources - I frequent book stores a lot. Have two within walking distance, and one of the two book stores is an indie and displayed these books as staff pics and best-sellers for that store. The other source was the ATPO board which is frequented by a lot of copy-editors, writers, librarians, teachers, and professors - who read for a living - and adore fantasy. They talked about the books quite a bit. Several, in fact, preferred the books to the Narnia ones.
I do. Narnia has some really disturbing themes - that I didn't notice as a child, but were obvious to me when I saw the film. Pullman's book addresses those themes as well as some of the more disturbing bits of Judeo-Christian religion. In some ways it is a critique of Christianity and Judeaism by an athesist.
His Dark Materials is the anti-Narnia.