Pullman review (SPOILERS)

Spectacled Bear24 May 2001, 18:33original as archived

↰ answers Alice Turner · by quotation

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At 18:51 2001-05-24, alga wrote: "An Almost Christian Fantasy," the review by Daniel Maloney in the Catholic journal First Things of Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy is up. Intelligent analysis, I think, not just religious but literary. http://print.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft0105/reviews/moloney.html

Thanks for that, alga! I finished the series just last night, and I'm glad to see I wasn't the only one who didn't consider it entirely satisfactory. The plot of the third book is somewhat loose, but with so much wonderful writing and emotional power I could overlook that, provided there was a proper resolution. I couldn't understand why the Dust stopped flowing away just because of Will and Lyra's love; it feels right emotionally, but at least a hint of a rationale would have been nice. Her prophesied destiny as some sort of Eve comes to absolutely nothing that I could see. As for them being parted, well! That was just horrible. It really upset me. Why did he have to do that? Spectacled Bear.