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Mark Reads : Mark Reads 'The Amber Spyglass': Chapter 3

Thu, 21 Jul 2011 07:38:25 +0000

I LOVE EVERYONE IN THIS THREAD FOREVER AND EVER.

Mark Reads : Mark Reads 'The Amber Spyglass': Chapter 3

Wed, 20 Jul 2011 17:02:59 +0000

Oh oh oh, I feel your mad-as-hell-but-crying pain!!

Mark Reads : Mark Reads 'The Amber Spyglass': Chapter 2

Wed, 20 Jul 2011 11:54:34 +0000

I agree very much with this. I think (although how would I know? OK, I believe) that I experience my atheism in as profoundly moved and awed manner as my religious friends say they experience their spirituality and relationship with God. I've never felt empty (other than when I was depressed), and find myself constantly moved by how amazing the world is, and by the paradox that the time we have on earth is so small and insignificant that it means nothing at all, and yet is everything to us.

Mark Reads : Mark Reads 'The Amber Spyglass': Chapter 2

Tue, 19 Jul 2011 15:15:01 +0000

What is so spectacular to me is the fact that when it comes right down to it, twelve-year-old Will spends the entirety of chapter two bossing around two angels who are thousands of years old and massively in love with one another. I KNOW, RIGHT?! Will is so awesome. I hearts him. I was quite taken aback by the snarkiness of the angels though. I was completely on board with them as ALL KNOWING AND WISE ARCHITECTURES, and yet now they have personalities? Weird... but awesome weird. I totally thought the Regent would be Jesus - I thought that would be the massive controversial crux of the series. Killer flying Jesus on the loose! But no, it was only an angel. I am disappoint. I loved the bit when Will told the angels that finding Lyra and his mother was the point of this metaphysical speculation. BOOYAH, angels. This kid is beyond awesome.

Mark Reads : Mark Reads 'The Amber Spyglass': Chapter 1

Tue, 19 Jul 2011 15:02:18 +0000

I have nothing to say about this chapter except DIE IN A FIRE MRS COULTER'S MONKEY. Mrs Coulter, she can go too. Seriously, too creepy.

Mark Reads : Mark Reads 'The Amber Spyglass': Chapter 1

Tue, 19 Jul 2011 14:59:52 +0000

WATERSHIP DOWN IS LOVE.

Mark Reads : Mark Reads 'The Amber Spyglass': Chapter 1

Tue, 19 Jul 2011 14:56:28 +0000

Pocahontas is forever my role model for transcending the language barrier through the medium of song! Mad props to her!

Mark Reads : Mark Reads 'The Subtle Knife': Chapter 15

Sun, 17 Jul 2011 17:20:26 +0000

Lord Asriel and the Dust-angels is surely a band-name in the making. Surely.

Mark Reads : Mark Reads 'The Subtle Knife': Chapter 15

Sun, 17 Jul 2011 16:52:33 +0000

AND ALSO! I like the fact that this flawed rationale for awful behaviour stems around love/"love"/lust, which is such a key differentiation between adulthood and childhood. So it subverts the whole you grow up and gain knowledge of The World and put away the irrationality of youth with a big phat ADULTS BE CRAZY, YO.

Mark Reads : Mark Reads 'The Subtle Knife': Chapter 15

Sun, 17 Jul 2011 16:41:14 +0000

Re the angels: I KNOW, RIGHT? WHAT THE ACTUAL WHAT?!

Mark Reads : Mark Reads 'The Subtle Knife': Chapter 15

Sun, 17 Jul 2011 16:40:26 +0000

This comment really warmed my cockles. I feel similarly. (Except I'm lazier and often don't bother to have the discussions, but I sure as hell appreciate them when I read them!)

Mark Reads : Mark Reads 'The Subtle Knife': Chapter 15

Sun, 17 Jul 2011 16:36:27 +0000

WHAT NOTEMILY SAYS

Mark Reads : Mark Reads 'The Subtle Knife': Chapter 15

Sun, 17 Jul 2011 16:35:13 +0000

I hate you for making me think these thoughts that now I am thinking and they are hurting my mind's eye and how very could you?

Mark Reads : Mark Reads 'The Subtle Knife': Chapter 15

Sun, 17 Jul 2011 16:26:24 +0000

I agree with you so hard right now.

Mark Reads : Mark Reads 'The Subtle Knife': Chapter 15

Sun, 17 Jul 2011 16:23:02 +0000

A teensy bit off-topic, but I loved the line about not knowing what a mantle was because it reminded me of the threat my old childminder would use to make us kids behave: "If you do that one more time, I'm going to give you THE SACK." WHAT IS THE SACK, IS SHE GOING TO PUT ME IN A SACK, A SACK THAT KILLS CHILDREN, WILL SHE THROW ME OFF A BRIDGE, WHAT DOES IT MEAN, OH MY GOD THE ABJECT TERROR Very, very effective on small children with big imaginations!

Mark Reads : Mark Reads 'The Subtle Knife': Chapter 15

Sun, 17 Jul 2011 16:08:57 +0000

I would pay you a full dollar for those 2 cents! Especially the last paragraph - you expressed exactly how I've been feeling about this!

Mark Reads : Mark Reads 'The Subtle Knife': Chapter 14

Sun, 17 Jul 2011 15:24:31 +0000

Well, now my heart's gone and got itself completely decimated. Thanks for that, Pullman. I'm going to go cry in a corner now.

Mark Reads : Mark Reads 'The Subtle Knife': Chapter 14

Sun, 17 Jul 2011 15:21:25 +0000

Hester was failing. "Hester, don't you go before I do," Lee whispered. "Lee, I couldn't abide to be anywhere away from you for a single second," she whispered back. THE MOMENT I COMPLETELY LOST IT.

Mark Reads : Mark Reads 'The Subtle Knife': Chapter 14

Sun, 17 Jul 2011 15:07:46 +0000

No, it worked. <3 Lee.

Mark Reads : Mark Reads 'The Subtle Knife': Chapter 14

Sun, 17 Jul 2011 15:06:23 +0000

That line was wonderful. Yes yes yes.