Are C S Lewis, J K Rowling and Philip Pullman overrated?

By Caleb | July 17, 2008

That was the question posed in the Books section of Outpost Gallifrey recently. You might not be surprised to read that my short answer is “No”, but hopefully my further observations might be of some interest… First of all, I really enjoy all three writers and their books. Secondly, in the interests of full disclosure, […]

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The Golden Compass controversy

By Caleb | December 6, 2007

I went to see The Golden Compass on Wednesday, despite having been invited by a Christian friend to join a Facebook group inviting people to boycott the film, warning that it “promotes atheism”. It’s based on Northern Lights, first in the His Dark Materials trilogy written by Philip Pullman , which is certainly very critical […]

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Of Man’s First Disobedience: Childhood and the Fall in Narnia and His Dark Materials

By Caleb | December 19, 2006

“I hate the Narnia books,” said Philip Pullman, author of the His Dark Materials trilogy, “and I hate them with deep and bitter passion, with their view of childhood as a golden age from which sexuality and adulthood are a falling away”. [link] The essay I found most interesting to write last year (and got […]

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The Problem of Susan and other thorny issues of Narniology

By Caleb | October 24, 2005

What took him so long? Yes, Philip Pullman, author of the His Dark Materials trilogy and Richard Dawkins of the literary world has been on the warpath against The Chronicles of Narnia again. When The Guardian ran a feature previewing the film a few weeks ago which described The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe […]

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