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[shadowkat]

That cool daemon meme swiped from superplin.

His Dark Materials is amongst my favorite childrens fantasy novels. And in my opinion far better than some of its predecessors. Also amongst the few that feature a strong, independent, female heroine who is a little girl. Most of these books have boys - Narnia, Harry Potter, Earthsea, the Hobbit. It was Pullman's response to a lot of the themes he found troubling in the Narnia series.

Really looking forward to this film, far more actually than Harry Potter, or Spiderman.

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[embers-log.livejournal.com]

I'm ashamed to say I've never heard of this book...
it does sound interesting, and I hope the movie is good!

[arethusa2.livejournal.com]

Oh, the spider is cool. Pocket-sized, unlike the tiger. It's funny how most of us are both retiring and assertive. I think that's a good thing, because you end up doing a lot of observing, but feel confident enough to assert ourselves when we really want to. (Except then we second-guess ourselves; at least I do.)