HP readalikes - for the young and young at heart (long)

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> Kemper now:
> Katherine is of course right.  But there is not comparison to 
> Rowling's work regardless of author.
> 
> Pullman's His Dark Materials series may lack humor, but it's not 
> trying to be funny.  The subject matter seems more serious.  It is 
> definitely more an action/adventure series then it is a mystery 
series 
> (as I see the HP books to be).  
> 
> I agree that the series is dark but not bitter.  Maybe bittersweet 
or 
> melancholy would be better terms.
> 
> And again, no book is the same type of book as the Potter series.  
The 
> other books that lend themselves to the style/type/genre are empty 
and 
> forgetful.  Pullman's series is neither empty nor forgetful.
> 
> Kemper
>


Alla:

I found Pullman's books to be amazingly well written, but just as 
Katherine I found them to be dark and bitter, yes. It is not that I 
care much that Pullman does not seem to care for conventional 
religion at all, believe me I grew up as atheist and my beliefs are 
really very basic - I believe in higher spirituality which leads us, 
but that is about as much as I care to define my beliefs. 

But what Lee characterised as against religion, I would probably 
characterise  as absolutely hopeless ending.


For those who care for this type of thing, I certainly recommend the 
books. They are IMO very well done literature, but absolutely not my 
cup of tea.

I put them in the **books which I respect a lot, but which I will not 
ever reread again**