Amber Spyglass

[Amy Z]

Simon, those are great points--I agree with a lot of your 
criticisms.  I want to do some mulling and responding, so it might be 
a couple of days.  "Loads to do" (stuffing face and heading to 
library).  However I will take two seconds to say that I really, 
really disliked that the unequivocally evil characters are all 
Churchmen and almost all of the Church people are unequivocally evil. 
 Yuck.  Someone had a bad childhood religious experience and needs to 
get over it, don't you think?  (And it is ironic that he dislikes 
Lewis so much, because they share the flaw of a slavish attitude 
toward the Church, whether pro or con.)

Amy Z