Yeah, it was an awesome Christmas! :D How was yours?
Oh of course, I don't think it's a big deal, either. I'm not religious, but I still enjoy the story a lot. :D You can decide to simply enjoy a story about a different world, a lion and four children without reading anything more into it. I like that the books do not 'impose' Christianity on the reader and give us the choice to read the subtext if we want to, or to simply focus on the story.
Haha, yeah, I'm reading two completely different books if we look at the ideas of the authors (C. S. Lewis with his Christian subtext and Pullman sort of having the Church as 'bad guys' and wanting to be completely free of any religious subtext), but you know what? I'm loving them, subtext or not. They're just so well written and the stories are amazing. But I agree, Pullman has really made an amazing world (I suspect there are more worlds to be seen, but the one in the first book is still quite interesting to me), with the bears and the witches and the gyptians and the daemons! I almost wish I had come up with such ideas myself, haha!
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Oh of course, I don't think it's a big deal, either. I'm not religious, but I still enjoy the story a lot. :D You can decide to simply enjoy a story about a different world, a lion and four children without reading anything more into it. I like that the books do not 'impose' Christianity on the reader and give us the choice to read the subtext if we want to, or to simply focus on the story.
Haha, yeah, I'm reading two completely different books if we look at the ideas of the authors (C. S. Lewis with his Christian subtext and Pullman sort of having the Church as 'bad guys' and wanting to be completely free of any religious subtext), but you know what? I'm loving them, subtext or not. They're just so well written and the stories are amazing. But I agree, Pullman has really made an amazing world (I suspect there are more worlds to be seen, but the one in the first book is still quite interesting to me), with the bears and the witches and the gyptians and the daemons! I almost wish I had come up with such ideas myself, haha!