ext_7668 ([identity profile] fabularasa.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] resonant 2003-06-06 10:10 pm (UTC)

Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy.

Yes! That's it exactly! I made it through the first one, no problem, utterly riveted by the cleverness of the conceit. I bogged down in the second but soldiered gamely on. But I competely derailed in book three. I mean, there were elephant people. On wheels. And everyone was just a cardboard prop for an idea, the main idea being look how much I'm not Tolkien/Lewis, and how I can manage to package all the bleakest and grisliest aspects of paganism in three utterly unsuspenseful cures for insomnia.

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