I mentioned the other day that I was listening to the full cast audiobooks of Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy this week in order to refresh my memory before reading his new one, and that Garrick Hagon (Biggs in SW) directed the production and played a role in the first book. Well, I just finished book two, and who turned up in that one but Julian Glover (General Veers in ESB)! I wonder which Star Wars alumni will be in part three.
Well, apparently Philip Pullman, author of His Dark Materials, had scathing things to say about LOTR and Narnia. He called Narnia sexist, and racist among other things, and seem to trivialize both series simply because their authors were people of faith. My brother in law says such an opinion is also apparent in the His Dark Materials series itself, so nope. I’m not really interested in reading it anymore. I’m not keen on being lectured why faith is stupid.
He can be agnostic or atheist or whatever, but holding himself as superior for it annoys me.