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chocolate_chip ([personal profile] chocolate_chip) wrote2008-06-09 07:30 pm

re: His Dark Materials

First of all, to the asshole that stole the one-offs from NY Dolpa: way to go, fucktard. I wouldn't be surprised if Volks never holds another Dolpa outside of Japan again, thanks to you. I just hope you're stupid enough to try to sell them.

So, it took a lot of work, and a lot of forcing myself to slog through, but I finally finished the His Dark Materials trilogy. Not to be ironic, but good God, what a pile of misogynist, propagandistic bullshit. Not only that, but they're horribly written. It's obvious from the start that Pullman doesn't really care about telling a story. The books are nothing more than a bullhorn shouting "my edgy ideas, let me show you them." Which explains why everything about them sucks ass. Aside from the premise being built on lies from the start, the plot is aimless and full of holes, the writing has no style, the characters are one-dimensional and unlikable, the dialogue is dull and unauthentic, logic is nonexistent, hypocrisy permeates everything, and Pullman wouldn't be able to create a proper parallel even if he had a drafting table. Oh wait, these books are supposed to be about thinking for ourselves? When does a single one of the characters ever think for themselves? What ideas or conclusions is the reader allowed to create on his or her own? Everything in the books is delivered with such heavy-handedness that thinking is the absolute last thing the reader needs to do. Does Pullman even realize that he's every bit as close-minded as those he claims to hate? But an open mind isn't what Pullman is after, is it? No, it's quite clear that all he wants is for people to think exactly the same way he does. He leaves no room for anything else. Hooray for hypocrisy.

These books are so bad, I wonder if Pullman was actually trying to write the worst thing he possibly could, just to see how many people would lap it up for its *~*EdGiNeSs*~*. And then, when I thought things couldn't possibly get any worse, I came to the "love scene". How the hell did that shit get published? I can't remember the last time I read something so clichéd and unrealistic outside of ff.net. He actually used the phrase "with every fiber of his being." Seriously.

You know, I'm an apologist through and through, so I fully expected to like these books when I started reading. And maybe if they weren't written so badly, I would have. But don't smash my head with a sledgehammer over and over, and tell me you're "opening my mind".

[identity profile] mateem.livejournal.com 2008-06-09 11:01 pm (UTC)(link)
XD Well, I'm learning what NOT to read, anyways! Yay for friends who are willing to be guinea pigs. =p