The Agony and the Ecstacy/ His Dark Materials

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--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "sistermagpie" 
<sistermagpie at ...> wrote:
>
> All:
> > The good example would be Pullman's "His Dark Materials". I loved 
> the 
> > first book and second and hated third and especially ending.
> > 
> > But was it my fault for hating the third book? Um, yeah, TOTALLY. 
> I 
> > mean, not **fault**, but my views if that make sense.
> > 
> > Third book was not any worse written or anything like that, it is 
> > just I did not get what I wanted out of it.
> 
>  
> > So, I absolutely think that the books are fantastically written, 
> > great story, etc, but I will NOT reread them again. That does not 
> > mean that I will ever claim that Pullman is a bad writer, that 
his 
> > story does not flow, etc.
> > 
> > It is just he took the story in the direction I disliked 
> immensely, 
> > but it is my problem, NOT his.
> > 
> > Again, there is no implied comparison with what people who hated 
> > seventh book think of Rowling, it is a description of how I think 
> of 
> > the books.
> 
> Magpie:
> I guess for me I think it would be perfectly valid to also think it 
> was Pullman's problem. I mean, not to the point where he's at fault 
> for not writing any specific story that you wanted, but for 
> instance, I know somebody who got to the end and thought the books 
> were crazy in a similar way as some people feel about the ending of 
> DH. Shehe read what Pullman wrote and said, "I didn't like this and 
> here's why." She had no alternate version she thought he should 
have 
> written, she just reacted to the story she was given. 
><SNIP>


Alla:

Okay, Alla think first press send later. Oh well.

So, Pullman. I did not have alternative version either, or maybe I 
did in a sense that I wanted ending to have some hope, you know?

I think it is me imposing my expectations on the text and Pullman as 
we agree just wanting to say something different.

Like I know people who had some problems with Lira's character in 
book 3. I did not, but I think the critique of those people was 
actually easier for me to understand and to accept, you know?

That the character changes did not work for them, etc.

Alla.