The book, not the movie (which I have not seen).
I have mixed feelings about The Golden Compass, the first book in Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials series.
In short, it was made into a movie for the 2007 Christmas season. The trailers did look super-cool. I remembered two contraversial things about the movie. First, many Christians [...]
Happy friggin New Year. I came home from merry ol’ England with some fun little germies that have essentially kept me coughing, hacking, and utterly lethargic for the past week or so. God Save the Queen.
It’s hard to believe we’re already 12 days into 2006. I liked 2005, frankly. Poof, it’s gone.
We’ll see if 2006 [...]
The Narnia series has had a bit of effect on me over the years. I read The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe when I was in fifth grade and didn’t even know there were more in the series for a few of years. In the end, through Narnia I was introduced to C. S. [...]
My niece, Danielle, has evidently tagged me. Not sure if this is a good thing, or the electronic equivalent of when Merlin Olsen and his gang on Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom used to take down a herd of caribou and staple big yellow number-cards onto their ears. “Look at ’em go”
(Can anyone remember the Mutual [...]