{"id":174,"date":"2008-02-06T07:23:43","date_gmt":"2008-02-06T11:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/?p=174"},"modified":"2008-02-06T07:26:31","modified_gmt":"2008-02-06T11:26:31","slug":"the-golden-compass-and-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/the-golden-compass-and-me\/","title":{"rendered":"The Golden Compass and me"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m pre-writing this entry on Sunday, prior to the teen book group’s Tuesday\u00c2\u00a0discussion of Philip Pullman’s The Golden Compass<\/em>.\u00c2\u00a0 While in graduate school, I had to read The Golden Compass<\/em>, and totally hated it; the hatred was probably mostly driven by my unadulterated hatred of the professor of my fantasy and science fiction class, but perhaps also partly by the book, too.\u00c2\u00a0 Because, lazy little reader that I’ve become, I’m struggling with this book once again.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s such hard work<\/em>.\u00c2\u00a0 It makes me think<\/em>.\u00c2\u00a0 And thinking makes me cranky<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Clearly, Pullman\u00c2\u00a0is brilliant, and has an amazing creative vision for this book and its sequels.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s not a book to try to skim quickly on Super Bowl Sunday before heading to a friend’s house for the game, though that’s what I’m trying to do.\u00c2\u00a0 And the depth of the fantasy in the text reminds me that I’m not really a fantasy reader – I struggle with many of the fantasy conventions and with things like daemons and Dust and althiometers.\u00c2\u00a0 So while I recognize Pullman’s genius, I can’t say that I’m engaged in the text.\u00c2\u00a0 I’d rather be reading the book for the older teen book group:\u00c2\u00a0 Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility<\/em>.\u00c2\u00a0 Delicate observations on humanity, gentle romance, and an ultimately optimistic view of the world and its people: that’s the kind of book that I like to read, not fantasy.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m pre-writing this entry on Sunday, prior to the teen book group’s Tuesday\u00c2\u00a0discussion of Philip Pullman’s The Golden Compass.\u00c2\u00a0 While in graduate school, I had to read The Golden Compass, and totally hated it; the hatred was probably mostly driven by my unadulterated hatred of the professor of my fantasy and science fiction class, but … Continue reading The Golden Compass and me<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-groups","category-young-adult-book-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}