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Guinevere · 06-04-2012, 10:37 AM

I read Pullman's "his dark materials" trilogy in 2007, originally just to form an opinion on his writing, because of his criticism of LotR. In several threads here and here it was mentioned how in public interviews he called LotR "just fancy spun candy with no substance to it", "a trivial book" "fundamentally an infantile book". That really got my hackles up, as you can imagine!!

To do Pullman justice, I found that the books were very thrilling to read, I really liked the first volume a lot. But the farther I got, the less convincing I found it and I was disappointed by the end. It was a good read, but I don't feel the need to go back and reread them, as with Tolkien's works.

06-04-2012, 10:37 AM	#933
Guinevere Banshee of Camelot Join Date: May 2002 Location: Switzerland Posts: 5,833	I read Pullman's "his dark materials" trilogy in 2007, originally just to form an opinion on his writing, because of his criticism of LotR. In several threads here and here it was mentioned how in public interviews he called LotR "just fancy spun candy with no substance to it", "a trivial book" "fundamentally an infantile book". That really got my hackles up, as you can imagine!! To do Pullman justice, I found that the books were very thrilling to read, I really liked the first volume a lot. But the farther I got, the less convincing I found it and I was disappointed by the end. It was a good read, but I don't feel the need to go back and reread them, as with Tolkien's works. __________________ Yes! "wish-fulfilment dreams" we spin to cheat our timid hearts, and ugly Fact defeat!