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Hello, my darlings! I've been spamming your F-List this week for no other reason than my boredom.
Work is pure routine and either way I've got tired enought of it that I'm quitting next week. YAY! I'll be unemployed for the whole of Febraury and I WILL enjoy it because... well... I want to. I could have very well started looking for another job, but I so dearly need a break from responsibilities that I'm willing to risk my financial safety for it.
So, those are the news from my RL.
Moving on to our next topic, this week I've received two lovely post-cards that I'm assuming are from fangirlyness, as they come from Australia. Thank you so much, girl! I like them a lot! I got oh-so excited. *.*
Keeping with the random, I have a new crush.
His name is Jesse Williams and he is HOTNESS EVERYWHERE. Also, I like his role on Grey's Anatomy. And his skin colour. And his eyes. And his body. *drools*
On Wednesday, I've finished reading the His Dark Materials trilogy, by Philip Pullman.
First of all, I love the three books. None of them have a single word to be wasted. The plot is absolutely well outlined, the pace fantastic and the characters... Well, in the end you learn to tolerate them all... THAT's the least you do with the characters, because all of them are lovable.
The story is quite simple and its resolution, its end is highly accomplished. Quoting from Scholastic:
His Dark Materials is an intensely modern work of almost visionary originality. The three volumes of the trilogy, Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass, are multi-layered and embrace many different themes and facets relevant to us all. His Dark Materials explores the biggest questions of them all - existence, childhood, innocence, knowledge, grace, death and, last but by no means least, that of love. It is very much a book for today, for the beginning of a new millennium.
With its roots planted firmly in the English dissenting tradition that harks back to William Blake and others, the trilogy takes its overall title from Book One of John Milton’s epic Paradise Lost. Indeed, like that great English classic, His Dark Materials is a reworking (not a retelling) of the story of the Garden of Eden and the Fall of Man. It shares all the scope and grandeur of that story yet takes us far beyond. His Dark Materials is utterly original.
At its simplest it is a story of courage and humanity about a boy and a girl with a destiny to fulfill. At its widest it whirls the reader into a universe of wonders and dazzling marvels. The gently probing moral debate and new myths for our age that the author works into his narrative do not in any way mar or block the wonderful story that he unfolds. Here is a magnificent tale, rich in incident and character, that takes the breath away and leaves the reader with a sense of wonder. There is a terrible and abiding sense of loss when the book is finished. What higher praise than that can there be?
You can make comparisons to Tolkien, to CS Lewis but in the end such comparisons are meaningless; His Dark Materials is very much its own thing. This is what strikes new readers most and is why the books have such a startling effect.
His Dark Materials is ground-breaking.
You must read these books.
The three books have adventure, love, friendship, mystery, suspense. When you are reading them you don't even noticed the change from quietness to thrill, or so it happened to me. The passage between the two atmospheres is so smoothly done!
I highly recommend His Dark Materials trilogy. Lyra, Will, Roger, Iorek Byrnison, Serafina Pekkala, Lee Scoresby, Pantalaimon, Mary Malone, even Mrs. Coulter and Lord Asriel are going to capture your hearts.
Work is pure routine and either way I've got tired enought of it that I'm quitting next week. YAY! I'll be unemployed for the whole of Febraury and I WILL enjoy it because... well... I want to. I could have very well started looking for another job, but I so dearly need a break from responsibilities that I'm willing to risk my financial safety for it.
So, those are the news from my RL.
Moving on to our next topic, this week I've received two lovely post-cards that I'm assuming are from fangirlyness, as they come from Australia. Thank you so much, girl! I like them a lot! I got oh-so excited. *.*
Keeping with the random, I have a new crush.
His name is Jesse Williams and he is HOTNESS EVERYWHERE. Also, I like his role on Grey's Anatomy. And his skin colour. And his eyes. And his body. *drools*
On Wednesday, I've finished reading the His Dark Materials trilogy, by Philip Pullman.
First of all, I love the three books. None of them have a single word to be wasted. The plot is absolutely well outlined, the pace fantastic and the characters... Well, in the end you learn to tolerate them all... THAT's the least you do with the characters, because all of them are lovable.
The story is quite simple and its resolution, its end is highly accomplished. Quoting from Scholastic:
His Dark Materials is an intensely modern work of almost visionary originality. The three volumes of the trilogy, Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass, are multi-layered and embrace many different themes and facets relevant to us all. His Dark Materials explores the biggest questions of them all - existence, childhood, innocence, knowledge, grace, death and, last but by no means least, that of love. It is very much a book for today, for the beginning of a new millennium.
With its roots planted firmly in the English dissenting tradition that harks back to William Blake and others, the trilogy takes its overall title from Book One of John Milton’s epic Paradise Lost. Indeed, like that great English classic, His Dark Materials is a reworking (not a retelling) of the story of the Garden of Eden and the Fall of Man. It shares all the scope and grandeur of that story yet takes us far beyond. His Dark Materials is utterly original.
At its simplest it is a story of courage and humanity about a boy and a girl with a destiny to fulfill. At its widest it whirls the reader into a universe of wonders and dazzling marvels. The gently probing moral debate and new myths for our age that the author works into his narrative do not in any way mar or block the wonderful story that he unfolds. Here is a magnificent tale, rich in incident and character, that takes the breath away and leaves the reader with a sense of wonder. There is a terrible and abiding sense of loss when the book is finished. What higher praise than that can there be?
You can make comparisons to Tolkien, to CS Lewis but in the end such comparisons are meaningless; His Dark Materials is very much its own thing. This is what strikes new readers most and is why the books have such a startling effect.
His Dark Materials is ground-breaking.
You must read these books.
The three books have adventure, love, friendship, mystery, suspense. When you are reading them you don't even noticed the change from quietness to thrill, or so it happened to me. The passage between the two atmospheres is so smoothly done!
I highly recommend His Dark Materials trilogy. Lyra, Will, Roger, Iorek Byrnison, Serafina Pekkala, Lee Scoresby, Pantalaimon, Mary Malone, even Mrs. Coulter and Lord Asriel are going to capture your hearts.