His Dark Materials

[juldea]

karlean7 got me started on a new book trilogy, His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman. I read it during the 30-45 minutes/day I work out on the treadmill or elliptical machine. It makes the time go by super-fast. I've managed to finish the first book already and am on the second. I have a few bones to pick about the plot (some things are too obvious, some others aren't obvious enough, etc) but generally they're enjoyable books, and have some good quotes. One of which is the reason I bring this up.

This quote is spoken from a father to a child, who asks that Adam and Eve aren't real, they're just fairy tales, right?

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"...think of Adam and Eve like an imaginary number, like the square root of minus one: you can never see any concrete proof that it exists, but if you include it in your equations, you can calculate all manner of things that couldn't be imagined without it."

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Not going to sway me over to any religious beliefs, but a very interesting idea nonetheless.

Comments

[oddharmonic.livejournal.com]

I love love love the His Dark Materials trilogy. If you want a cheap laugh, read the reviews for any of the books at Amazon.com and sort by rating; the low ones are all basically "This is EVIL anti-Christian heresy!!!!". Hysterically funny.

I keep hoping he'll write more because I really dug Lyra, but the only non-trilogy book outi s a little hardcover called Lyra's Oxford that features a short story set a few years after the trilogy and some ephemera from Lyra's world.

[juldea.livejournal.com]

Did you know there's a movie in the works? At least according to a major fansite, http://www.darkmaterials.com/ ...

Mmm, evil anti-Christian heresy. :)