I just saw an ad for "The Golden Compass" that said it was "A brilliant fantasy in the tradition of Lord of the Rings and The Chronicles of Narnia." YEAH. Because those two devout men would totally endorse a movie or book series whose author is an avowed atheist, and in which
God dies at the end of the trilogy by falling out of bed.
That reviewer (whoever it was) is completely clueless...
Which, yeah, shouldn't surprise me. Not really. But it does make my head all desky.