Fri, 26 Feb 2010

Sucked In

Years ago, it was pretty easy for me to get sucked into a book. That's becoming increasingly rare, perhaps due to a lack of good books, but more likely due to simple laziness on my part. However, this week was different - we happened to catch a movie that we'd both heard about, but had both pretty much ignored, assuming it was a play to cash in on the popularity of the Harry Potter and Narnia movies, none of which particularly excited us. The Golden Compass kept our undivided attention for all 113 minutes - I was absolutely intrigued, so much so that I went out and got the books - His Dark Materials and a DVD of the movie at a used bookstore a couple of days after we watched it. That was last weekend, and explains my lack of blogging for the week - about a thousand pages.

We liked the movie a lot - the books are even better. There's so much more you can do in the way of back (and side) stories in a book than in a movie. And what a story! Phillip Pullman is a master storyteller, and an excellent writer. If you're like us, and either never heard of these tales or blew them off as child's play, think again. I cannot recommend this series highly enough.

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