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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Malcolm Polstead is the kind of boy who notices everything but is not much noticed himself. And so perhaps it was inevitable that he would become a spy...
Malcolm's father runs an inn called the Trout, on the banks of the river Thames, and all of Oxford passes through its doors. Malcolm and his dæmon, Asta, routinely overhear news and gossip, and the occasional scandal, but during a winter of unceasing rain, Malcolm catches wind of something new: intrigue.
He finds a secret message inquiring about a dangerous substance called Dust--and the spy it was intended for finds him.
When she asks Malcolm to keep his eyes open, Malcolm sees suspicious characters everywhere; Lord Asriel, clearly on the run; enforcement agents from the Magisterium; an Egyptian named Coram with warnings just for Malcolm; and a beautiful woman with an evil monkey for a dæmon. All are asking about the same thing: a girl--just a baby--named Lyra.
Lyra is the kind of person who draws people in like magnets. And Malcolm will brave any danger, and make shocking sacrifices, to bring her safely through the storm.
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好喜歡菲利普普爾曼…他的童書其實都是給大人寫的吧。六年級初一的時候addicted to HDM,看瞭好多遍,後來再看依舊很愛。後半段情節很緊張,放不下書的那種,期待鞦季齣版的第二冊????
評分好喜歡菲利普普爾曼…他的童書其實都是給大人寫的吧。六年級初一的時候addicted to HDM,看瞭好多遍,後來再看依舊很愛。後半段情節很緊張,放不下書的那種,期待鞦季齣版的第二冊????
評分So gripping!完全停不下來。差點以為是青少年讀物略過,後來纔發現不僅魔幻還很現實。可以當蒸治曆史小說看瞭。
評分不敢相信是寫黃金羅盤三部麯的作者寫齣來的,翻瞭亞馬遜的評論,發現跟我想法如齣一轍——那些無謂的短暫齣現的次要角色,毫無意義,而且沒有交代。那個fairy land給lyra哺乳的女王,那個Tilda女王,都是女王齣現。Serafina去哪裏瞭?哪些熟悉的人,相關的也就Lyra Mrs.Coulter和Lord Asriel。其他幾乎完全不相關瞭。Dr.Relf齣場那麼多,最後還是打醬油。Oakley Street也是草草交代。不斷地自我重復,發生的事,因為需要嚮第三人交代,作者自己就summarise一遍。整個後半段都在遊船,這個Bonnevile也是死不瞭。整個停靠過程是在刷地圖闖關嗎?完全沒有connection。真的太差瞭。疫情在傢,讀這樣一本書,真的沉悶。
評分相比HDM故事走嚮更加黑暗。充滿瞭在教會控製下社會的壓抑氛圍,幾處甚至有1984的影子。後半段洪水大逃殺典型普爾曼式幻想交響麯,而結局依舊慘烈和悲傷,但同時又充滿瞭希望,就如同HDM每本的結尾。
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