But, yeah, I found it really desturbing. I know he's putting it in fantasy terms, but he's still talking about the torture of children.
I suppose there is that. Come to think of it, the very non-childish topic of torture juxtaposed with the armoured bears and cool devices like the alethiometer (which all make me feel like I'm five again and filled with wonder) is rather strange. I wonder if that's some of what makes it work, though; they don't seem childish in the least, whereas the first two or three Harry Potter books, for example, do, because they're almost entirely "look, cool stuff at a school for wizards!" before things like Cecil's death enter in GoF. I kind of like the two layers.
I love the story and the world (armoured bears! yay!) he's created, it's colorful and you don't know who is good or who is bad all the time. I finished it because I wanted to see how it ended, but, yeah, odd.
It's kind of making me look forward to having to read Paradise Lost for comps, because I get the impression that this series draws a lot from that, and it'll be interesting to compare. But yes, very strange.
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Date: 2005-02-01 08:43 am (UTC)Thanks. :)
But, yeah, I found it really desturbing. I know he's putting it in fantasy terms, but he's still talking about the torture of children.
I suppose there is that. Come to think of it, the very non-childish topic of torture juxtaposed with the armoured bears and cool devices like the alethiometer (which all make me feel like I'm five again and filled with wonder) is rather strange. I wonder if that's some of what makes it work, though; they don't seem childish in the least, whereas the first two or three Harry Potter books, for example, do, because they're almost entirely "look, cool stuff at a school for wizards!" before things like Cecil's death enter in GoF. I kind of like the two layers.
I love the story and the world (armoured bears! yay!) he's created, it's colorful and you don't know who is good or who is bad all the time. I finished it because I wanted to see how it ended, but, yeah, odd.
It's kind of making me look forward to having to read Paradise Lost for comps, because I get the impression that this series draws a lot from that, and it'll be interesting to compare. But yes, very strange.