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  "thread": {
    "id": 4239,
    "subject": "OT- His Dark Materials",
    "messages": 1,
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    "first": "2004-10-14T17:08:23+00:00",
    "last": "2004-10-14T17:08:23+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<3A667AE8-1E3E-11D9-AE24-0003939CE29C@earthlink.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Don Doggett",
        "address": "harlekin at earthlink.net"
      },
      "date": "2004-10-14T17:08:23+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) OT- His Dark Materials",
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          "text": "Hey everyone,\n\n\tI just finished The Amber Spyglass last night and I have to say I was \npleasantly surprised by the entire trilogy.  The only review I read of \nit was backhandedly complimentary and very critical of Pullman's \nnegative approach to God and the Church.  I think the reviewer dropped \nthe ball though.  It seems to me the work is profoundly Gnostic and \nhaving taken that viewpoint, it couldn't go in any other direction.  \nCareful reading reveals that Pullman (no matter what his personal \nbeliefs, which I don't know) leaves open the question of an ultimate \nCreator.  All he's really saying is the God of the Christian Church \nain't it.  He's the Demiurge, a big faker who makes the world a worse \nplace than it needs to be.  It's really interesting to read him with \nWolfe in mind.   Though Pullman isn't nearly as subtle a writer, IMO, \nhe is certainly as humane, and probably more sympathetic to women than \nWolfe. (Though I tend to agree with Blattid's fallen world theory \nregarding that).  But they're apples and oranges I suppose.\n\nJust my two cents\n\nDon"
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