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# Radio Play
His Dark Materials Trilogy Radio Plays

Broadcast, a book at a time every saturday on Radio 4

Or online via radio 4

Absolutely the best books I read last year, and I read LotR last year!

We've missed the broadcasting of the first book, but as I said its online...
(longboy_mcgoo, Mon 6 Jan 2003, 12:30, archived)
# The best book I've ever read
is One Hunderd Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. I'm currently reading If On A Winters Night A Traveller by Italo Calvino, and its bringing up the rear, so to speak.

And how the hell did we get to 600000 posts so soon?
(I helped save b3ta! .spanky is singing "PEANUTS!", Mon 6 Jan 2003, 12:32, archived)
# Blame
Dr Phil and Bovine
(I helped save b3ta! Ijon Tichy, Mon 6 Jan 2003, 12:37, archived)
# eh up the cultcha wagon's arrived
Hundred Years is very good and my better half has Winters Night on the bookshelf but I've always been put off by the pretentious title. Also I saw The Boy Who Kicked Pigs in Fopp during the festivities but never bought it. Shame.
(I helped save b3ta! Fat Boab of dailyreckless.com fame, Mon 6 Jan 2003, 12:39, archived)
# Everything is illuminated
by Jonathan Safran Foer is rather good
(I helped save b3ta! Monkeyboy, Mon 6 Jan 2003, 12:42, archived)
# I recommend Winters Night
it's cracking so far... very creative. The title is the name of the book the central character (you?) buys in the start.
(I helped save b3ta! .spanky is singing "PEANUTS!", Mon 6 Jan 2003, 12:46, archived)
# Calvino's
ace, read it.
(tomsk, Mon 6 Jan 2003, 13:01, archived)
# maybe
we should open a sweepstake on when B3ta reaches 1,000,000 posts - I'm going with October 4 2003.
(I helped save b3ta! Monkeyboy, Mon 6 Jan 2003, 12:39, archived)
# A new champion
Strong Motion by J Franzen (the guy who wrote The Corrections) is tippy top lit in my ever so 'umble opinion.
(I helped save b3ta! xian, Mon 6 Jan 2003, 12:40, archived)
# Dark materials RULE!
Nuff said.
I love those books.
Yes indeed.
(I helped save b3ta! Hugo Rune, Mon 6 Jan 2003, 12:36, archived)
# In that case, could I interest sir
in some black denim? :)

/me spots a way to get cash for his old jeans that don't fit any more
(I helped save b3ta! Lumpbucket tekcubpmuL, Mon 6 Jan 2003, 12:38, archived)
# No,
but I could kick you in the office ;)
(I helped save b3ta! Hugo Rune, Mon 6 Jan 2003, 12:39, archived)
# what you want
is a nice bunch of gladioli sticking out the back pocket.
(I helped save b3ta! Fat Boab of dailyreckless.com fame, Mon 6 Jan 2003, 12:40, archived)
# I liked em
but I've read better - talk about underdeveloping your ideas.
(Amerella, Mon 6 Jan 2003, 12:39, archived)
# But that's coz you're a pretentious
fuckwit :)

*runs away screaming in terror :)*
(I helped save b3ta! Hugo Rune, Mon 6 Jan 2003, 12:40, archived)
# hooray!
All hail Amerella, for she is succinct and also quite right!
(I helped save b3ta! Dr Phil Kitten, Mon 6 Jan 2003, 12:40, archived)
# *gasp*
I thought you loved them!

Oh and *smack with a brick* to a retreating Hugo :)
(Amerella, Mon 6 Jan 2003, 12:47, archived)
# OW!
that really smarts
(I helped save b3ta! Hugo Rune, Mon 6 Jan 2003, 12:49, archived)
# But they're for 12 year olds...
(I helped save b3ta! thirdman Ia! Ia! R'lyeh Cthulhu ftagn! Ia! Ia! Mglui nafl, Mon 6 Jan 2003, 12:51, archived)
# oh do shut up
why the hell should that matter
(longboy_mcgoo, Mon 6 Jan 2003, 12:52, archived)
# I've got all the Harry Potters,
the one about the Grinch stealing christmas, and this year I got Dogger.

And? ;)
(Amerella, Mon 6 Jan 2003, 12:57, archived)
# I liked them,
but I was increasingly disappointed as it went on.
1st book: beautiful - well-realised, well-structured, properly engrossing and complex.
2nd book: er, all right I s'pose
3rd book: a mixture of the amazing, brilliant relationship between Lyra and Will, and the UTTER UTTER crap of all those personality reversions, weird and unlikely planets, and the fucking PIXIES - they weren't called Pixies but Pixies is what they were. I wanted to kill him when I finished that book - it was 99% shite and 1% really really good.
(I helped save b3ta! Dr Phil Kitten, Mon 6 Jan 2003, 12:55, archived)
# i thought the third was the best
although admitedly as the last in a trilogy itstands les well on its own as a single work

all the physics stuff was right up my street.

i liked the fact that the characters all had both flaws and good points, rather than in other young peoples fiction where the baddies/goodies divide is black and white.

It was just that some of the books (of the trilogy) highlighted the flaws of some caracters more and others highlighted there better points.
(longboy_mcgoo, Mon 6 Jan 2003, 13:03, archived)
# The only problem I had with them
was that they were in a trilogy and I had to wait to get the next book to carry on ;-)

For what are supposed to be early teens books, they are very thought provoking and moving. The whole idea of daemons was incredibly touching. And speaking as someone who went to a religous state school and then lapsed I think the idea of allowing kids to question their faith should be applauded, not feared...

How people can say they have real faith but have ever really questioned it amazes me
(longboy_mcgoo, Mon 6 Jan 2003, 12:48, archived)
# wot's it all about then?
I have never heard of it.
(I helped save b3ta! Craymen, Mon 6 Jan 2003, 12:42, archived)
# Wots it all about, Alfie?
I love that song.
They're 'kids' books by Phillip Pullman, The Subtle Knife and Northern Lights and I can't remember the other one.
(Amerella, Mon 6 Jan 2003, 12:48, archived)
# Amber Spyglass.
/geeky
(I helped save b3ta! Dr Phil Kitten, Mon 6 Jan 2003, 12:55, archived)
# T'other book
Its called 'The Amber Spyglass'

edit-beaten to it
(Symball, Mon 6 Jan 2003, 12:58, archived)