Philip Pullman trilogy

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--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "ladyramkin2000" 
<ladyramkin2000 at y...> wrote:
> I recently in a fit of absent-mindedness,  sent this post to the 
main 
> group, for which sincere apologies.  The point I wanted to make 
was: 
> I have tried, several times, to read these books, but just cant 
seem 
> to get into them.  As I know many people really love them, I wonder 
> if it is something in me that is resisting them.  Is it worth 
trying 
> yet again, or should I just decide Pullman isn't for me.  Any 
> comments would be gratefully received.
> Sylvia

I was fortunate in that I caught an excellent BBC Radio 4 
dramatisation, featuring Terence Stamp playing Lord Asriel at the 
same time as I stated reading them.

This brought the books alive for me, and I have to say that although 
I liked them I might well have found them hard going otherwise.  

I'm minded to re-read shortly - its generally the re-read that 
determines whether a book is one of my personal "great ones" or not.  
If it's any help - Lyra irritated quite a lot a first, then as the 
story proceeded, I got to like her better.

IMHO a very imaginative story - though some of the concepts are quite 
hard to grasp and sometimes the author does over pedal his views.

June