Reading some good books lately ? Recommend then, please :-] Options

[Chumbaniya]

[quote=Hammergand]I just finished the last of The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman - read to see why people on TES liked it so much. Me, I strongly dislike them all. While okay in themselves, they go against everything I believe in and are avidly anti-Christian.
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Yeah, I can't imagine "His Dark Materials" appealling to christians very much (or any other monotheistic religion for that matter). The anti-religious themes just add appeal for me, I've never been comfortable with any kind of religion.

[Wolfie]

I'm Christain and i still thought the His Dark Materials books were briliant. I didn't find them offensive, he was just expressing an opinion through his story. Or maybe he just wrote a story and that's how it ended up happening

[Chumbaniya]

[quote=LoneWolf]I'm Christain and i still thought the His Dark Materials books were briliant. I didn't find them offensive, he was just expressing an opinion through his story. Or maybe he just wrote a story and that's how it ended up happening[/quote]

Fair point actually, there are probably a lot of christians who don't mind anti-christian views in literature. There was a big outcry from more conservative areas of the church when it was published though, and Pullman has expressed that he does intend the books to be anti-religious.

[Wolfie]

Well then at least he had the courage to do it, and he wrote some damngood books in the process too

[Chumbaniya]

[quote=LoneWolf]Well then at least he had the courage to do it, and he wrote some damngood books in the process too [/quote]

Amen to that (oh the irony). You know what? If the church had someone to write a version of the Bible that was as good as "His Dark Materials" I reckon more people would start following them.

[Wolfie]

Yeah they probably would. I mean as it is, the bible has a huge number of page that have stuff like ".............and Jospeh begat David, who begat Saul, who begat .........." etc, etc (names may not be accurate )

[Chumbaniya]

[quote=LoneWolf]Yeah they probably would. I mean as it is, the bible has a huge number of page that have stuff like ".............and Jospeh begat David, who begat Saul, who begat .........." etc, etc (names may not be accurate )[/quote]

Yeah, less "begat"ing and more wizards. That ought to do the trick

[Wolfie]

lol you never know

[Aki]

[quote=minque]
Oh Aki.....why am I not surprised? [/quote]
I have no clue.
[quote=minque]But sure that book is awesome, also "the cry from the wilderness" is a goodie imo....(don´t know if the translation is correct)[/quote]
Never read that one. Will have too sometime.

[Hammergand]

[quote=LoneWolf]I'm Christain and i still thought the His Dark Materials books were briliant. I didn't find them offensive, he was just expressing an opinion through his story. Or maybe he just wrote a story and that's how it ended up happening[/quote]
My sister did too. Just personal opinion. :paperbag:

Other books I really enjoy are Jeffrey Archer's. The Fourth Estate is brilliant, as well as Kane and Abel, The Prodigal Daughter and Shall We Tell The President.