hooray!All hail Amerella, for she is succinct and also quite right!
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Dr Phil Kitten,
Mon 6 Jan 2003, 12:40,
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*gasp*I thought you loved them!
Oh and *smack with a brick* to a retreating Hugo :)
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Mon 6 Jan 2003, 12:47,
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Oh and *smack with a brick* to a retreating Hugo :)
But they're for 12 year olds...
thirdman Ia! Ia! R'lyeh Cthulhu ftagn! Ia! Ia! Mglui nafl,
Mon 6 Jan 2003, 12:51,
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I've got all the Harry Potters,the one about the Grinch stealing christmas, and this year I got Dogger.
And? ;)
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Mon 6 Jan 2003, 12:57,
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And? ;)
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.
(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.
Dr Phil Kitten,
Mon 6 Jan 2003, 12:55,
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i thought the third was the bestalthough 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.
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Mon 6 Jan 2003, 13:03,
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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.