In 1946, acclaimed author Philip Pullman was born in Norwich, England, into a Protestant family. Although his beloved grandfather was an Anglican priest, Pullman became an atheist in his teenage years. He graduated from Exeter College in Oxford with a degree in English, and spent 23 years as a teacher while working on publishing 13 books and numerous short stories. Pullman has received many awards for his literature, including the prestigious Carnegie Medal for exceptional children's literature in 1996, and the Carnegie of Carnegies in 2006. He is most famous for his His Dark Materials trilogy, a series of young adult fantasy novels which feature free-thought themes. The novels cast organized religion as the series' villain. Pullman told The New York Times in 2000: "When you look at what C.S. Lewis is saying, his message is so anti-life, so cruel, so unjust. The view that the Narnia books have for the material world is one of almost undisguised contempt. At one point, the old professor says, 'It's all in Plato'—meaning that the physical world we see around us is the crude, shabby, imperfect, second-rate copy of something much better. I want to emphasize the simple physical truth of things, the absolute primacy of the material life, rather than the spiritual or the afterlife." He argues for a "republic of heaven" here on Earth.
In 2007, the first novel of the His Dark Materials trilogy was adopted into the motion picture The Golden Compass by New Line Cinema. Many churches and Christian organizations, including the Catholic League, called for a boycott of the film due to the books' atheist themes. While the film was successful in Europe and moderately received in the United States, the other two books in the trilogy were not be adapted into film, possibly due to pressure from the Catholic Church. When questioned about the anti-church views in His Dark Materials, Pullman explains in an interview for Third Way (UK): “It comes from history. It comes from the record of the Inquisition, persecuting heretics and torturing Jews and all that sort of stuff; and it comes from the other side, too, from the Protestants burning the Catholics. It comes from the insensate pursuit of innocent and crazy old women, and from the Puritans in America burning and hanging the witches—and it comes not only from the Christian church but also from the Taliban. Every single religion that has a monotheistic god ends up by persecuting other people and killing them because they don't accept him. Wherever you look in history, you find that. It's still going on" (Feb. 2002). Pullman has received many threats by ardent believers over his choice of subject matter.
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评分也许是读时状态不对,像是为了完成任务似地读完此书,然后在想究竟什么事“尘埃”?倒是记住了披甲胸,女巫,吉普赛人,当然还有莱拉和罗杰。
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评分这是一本相当适合小孩看的书。她和哈利波特其实有很多相似的地方。即便作为一个大人,阅读起来感觉也还可以。因为这个小说构造的世界足够丰富有趣,而且他有自己的一套体系。我相当喜欢每个人都有一个精灵的设定。
评分打开第一页就一发不可收拾了,想一口气把它读完。情节跌宕曲折,在你意想不到的地方突然转弯,戏剧性却又顺理成章的往下发展。 不说作者的创作目的,说说我联想生活的几点感触: 1.精灵就是我们的灵魂。当你还是一个小孩子,精灵可以随意变换形态,也说明孩子的可塑性很强,性情...
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In a landmark epic of fantasy and storytelling, Philip Pullman invites readers into a world as convincing and thoroughly realized as Narnia, Earthsea, or Redwall. Here lives an orphaned ward named Lyra Belacqua, whose carefree life among the scholars at Oxford's Jordan College is shattered by the arrival of two powerful visitors. First, her fearsome uncle, Lord Asriel, appears with evidence of mystery and danger in the far North, including photographs of a mysterious celestial phenomenon called Dust and the dim outline of a city suspended in the Aurora Borealis that he suspects is part of an alternate universe. He leaves Lyra in the care of Mrs. Coulter, an enigmatic scholar and explorer who offers to give Lyra the attention her uncle has long refused her. In this multilayered narrative, however, nothing is as it seems. Lyra sets out for the top of the world in search of her kidnapped playmate, Roger, bearing a rare truth-telling instrument, the compass of the title. All around her children are disappearing—victims of so-called "Gobblers"—and being used as subjects in terrible experiments that separate humans from their daemons, creatures that reflect each person's inner being. And somehow, both Lord Asriel and Mrs. Coulter are involved.
趁剧还没更新先把原著补了,好喜欢????!
评分也许是因为英语水平不足?也许是因为是作业所以没有特别认真看,还是好多地方觉得有点莫名其妙,也可能因为看过所以什么魔幻现实都比不上GOT。听说上学期看的小说NT改编剧已经出了,估计舞台会很不错。还是少点精神上的东西吧吧,比如“凛冬将至”,或者我没感知到。
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评分趁剧还没更新先把原著补了,好喜欢????!
评分3.5 作者的声音略浑浊。目前还没有遇到作者本人朗读自己作品的上乘有声书。
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