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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The Amber Spyglass brings the intrigue of The Golden Compass and The Subtle Knife to a heart-stopping end, marking the final volume of His Dark Materials as the most powerful of the trilogy.
Along with the return of Lyra, Will, Mrs. Coulter, Lord Asriel, Dr. Mary Malone, and Iorek Byrnison the armored bear, come a host of new characters: the Mulefa, mysterious wheeled creatures with the power to see Dust; Gallivespian Lord Roke, a hand-high spymaster to Lord Asriel; and Metatron, a fierce and mighty angel. So, too, come startling revelations: the painful price Lyra must pay to walk through the land of the dead, the haunting power of Dr. Malone's amber spyglass, and the names of who will live--and who will die--for love. And all the while, war rages with the Kingdom of Heaven, a brutal battle that--in its shocking outcome--will uncover the secret of Dust. Philip Pullman deftly brings the cliff-hangers and mysteries of His Dark Materials to an earthshattering conclusion--and confirms his fantasy trilogy as an undoubted and enduring classic.
From the Hardcover edition.
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A bit anticlimactic. It’s about puberty and the responsibilities of growing up isn’t it. Throw in a bit of atheism and fantasy and there you have it. Still will name my pet Pan if I ever get one though lol.
評分The moment you're born, your death comes into the world with you, and it's your death that takes you out.
評分Lyra, Liar, 小說在最後一部點破瞭Lyra的名字含義。以兒童為主角的大型奇幻小說的短闆就是,故事無法避免為賦新詞強說愁的尷尬,除非像哈利波特一樣——雖然我也沒有很喜歡《哈》係列,故事時間跨度比較長,主角能得以成長,不然就很兒戲。Lyra和Will的感情按作者描述,實在很痛苦,為瞭世界犧牲瞭自己的一生,但想想主角纔是剛跨入青少年期的十二三歲的年齡,真的讓我很不可置信,這種震驚的感覺遠遠壓過瞭對他們愛情的感嘆——好吧,雖然我很喜歡這部小說的一個原因也是因為Will和Lyra就像成人一樣成熟、睿智……魚與熊掌不可兼得啊。和Authority的戰爭,隻能說沒寫垮,但也沒有很成功,著重描述Lyra一傢的場景還是限製瞭戰爭的格局——雖然背景鋪得夠大,跟戰爭與和平就沒得比
評分真沒想到一係列童書最後竟然是如此深沉與令人心痛的結局。還未開始就已經結束,用餘生慢慢迴味的愛情真是既美麗又沉重。顛覆傳統宗教觀念的情節注定會受到抵製吧,難怪電影也隻齣瞭一部,不過真的是有著超齣童書的深刻。
評分Lyra閱讀羅盤的能力到最後喪失,Will用兩根手指換來的匕首被摺斷,相愛又被迫分離,平行世界轉瞭一圈,最後還是迴到屬於自己的世界,過上類似正常人的生活。即使到最後還是迴到瞭原點,他們還是長大瞭。
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