Phillip Pulman? - Page 3

Tanoliel · 04-23-2002, 11:34 PM

That be true....he wrote a wonderful series about a woman named Sally Lockheart...set in England in...um...1800's? It's been a while....Hey, EG, what were the titles again?
-tano

Eruviel Greenleaf · 04-24-2002, 01:30 AM

They are set in Victorian England, and are called Ruby in the Smoke, Shadow in the North, and The Tiger in the Well. And he wrote another one about a character from Ruby in the Smoke which takes place quite a few years later, called The Tin Princess. They're all good. Read them, if you haven't!

Eruviel Greenleaf · 05-13-2002, 01:48 AM

Phillip Pullman is speaking at Barnes & Noble tues night! (well, the one in Seattle. . .) Hooray!!! Maybe I can get my books signed!!!

Garina · 05-14-2002, 11:01 AM

Philip Pullman is brilliant!!! I love His Dark Materials. I read them at a friends house at New Year and have never been able to forget them. I cried at the end too!.

I'm a Christian but I didn't find anything wrong with the books. I know the ideas are 'interesting', but if a book is obviously fantasy I dont care about the mythology. I got a bit confused, but I still really enjoyed them!
I really want to read the Ruby in the Smoke series, but they're not in the libraries and I have no money!

oh well christmas isn't too far away. lol

Eruviel Greenleaf · 05-14-2002, 04:10 PM

*dances around the room*
Phillip Pullman is coming!

I'm really excited now...

cassiopeia · 05-19-2002, 02:51 AM

I love his dark materials and the Sally Lockhart series! I don't know if anyone else has posted this but I just saw (at TheOneRing.net) that the dark materials books might be made into a movie! That would be so good. The link is here

Eruviel Greenleaf · 05-19-2002, 04:19 PM

*eek*

Well, they did a good job with LotR, so perhaps I ought to have faith that they will do well with this one as well. It's just I've always feared they would make a movie of His Dark Materials, and ruin it. But perhaps not, with this. . .thanks for posting that, cassiopeia!!!

Tanoliel · 05-20-2002, 10:58 PM

ooooo....*drools* Tom Stoppard and New Line? okee, i'm not worried! really, EG, Stoppard is awesome (read R&G Are Dead sometime, it's wonderful) and since New Line did LotR...well, that's just cool.

Heh...remember The Golden Compass Disney Style? EEEK!
-tano

Eruviel Greenleaf · 05-21-2002, 12:29 AM

Considering our fear-of-Disney conversations, you'd think one would expect pessemism from me

But maybe it will be good. . .who knows. Okay, I'll try to be optimistic

TwirlingString · 06-09-2002, 05:59 PM

The biggest problem with movie version:They have to cut things out, and it always turns out to be someones favorite part.

Eruviel Greenleaf · 06-10-2002, 03:30 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by TwirlingString
The biggest problem with movie version:They have to cut things out, and it always turns out to be someones favorite part.

That always happens. . .*sigh*
But hey, it could always be worse

Hanza · 07-01-2002, 01:29 PM

Hi! I have read northen Lights & found it wicked

! I have started Subtle Knife but I'm finding it harder to get into.any tips???

Tanoliel · 07-01-2002, 02:51 PM

Yep.
Keep reading.

Subtle Knife is a little weirder, but just keep reading and it gets easier. Well, maybe not, but as you read more you understand more. It's very good...personally I like the first one best (it is, as you so eloquently put it, wicked) but the other two are fantastic as well. Happy reading!
-tano

Erendis · 07-11-2002, 10:54 PM

I love HDM! I made a webpage on it once but I don't remember what happened to it. hhmm...let's see if I can find it...
My cousin gave The Golden Compass to me for Christmas a few years ago but I didn't start reading until the year after. Then I was totally hooked...I got my friend obsessed with the series too.
I heard they might end up not making the movie because that guy (I don't remember his name S---something) had another project. I dunno. *shrugs*

Tanoliel · 07-12-2002, 01:35 AM

Which guy? Not Spielberg? (*gets sudden image of jurassic compass* uh....

) I don't really care one way or the other. I mean, it would be kinda fun to see what they did with it, but on the other hand, i'm not clamoring for them to make a movie either. The only thing that really bugs me when books are made into movies are the people who think they know the story just by seeing the movie and not reading the books. I dunno. Anyway. It might be kind of fun anyhow!

-tano

cassiopeia · 07-12-2002, 01:45 AM

I think the guy is Tom Stoppard. Check my previous post for the link.

Tano, your not refering to a certain trilogy are you?

Tanoliel · 07-12-2002, 01:48 AM

*eRp*

Actually, I wasn't. I was speaking generally. But it's more the people who pretend to know a whole bunch about stuff....and well...nevermind. I think I'll stop before I fall into this hole I'm digging for myself.

AH, right! Stoppard! That was it. Okay. Forget Spielberg, it was just the first name that popped into my head. Yeah. Stoppard's good.

-tano

Erendis · 07-12-2002, 08:49 AM

Yeah...Tom Stoppard...that's the guy. I don't remember where I read teh article about him not making the movie though

Quote:

The only thing that really bugs me when books are made into movies are the people who think they know the story just by seeing the movie and not reading the books

Happens to me all the time. In fact, when one mentioned books in my Grade Seven class, they were looked on as slightly odd. There were three people in my class (including myself) who would take the time to read a book. Drove me insane. . .

Erawyn · 07-14-2002, 09:52 PM

i love these books sooo much! they are tied with lotr for my fave books! they are the only books that have ever made me cry!i think Phillip Pullman is brilliant, though i couldn't get into the sally lockhart books.

TwirlingString · 07-20-2002, 01:54 PM

How many of them did you read some are really god but one is just strange

04-23-2002, 11:34 PM	#41
Tanoliel Eccentric Chocolate Crow Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: The Emerald City--Seattle, WA Posts: 1,861	That be true....he wrote a wonderful series about a woman named Sally Lockheart...set in England in...um...1800's? It's been a while....Hey, EG, what were the titles again? -tano __________________ Wisdom for Short Attention Spans...Ozy and Millie. It rocks. Food Of The Gods: 3,7-dihydro-3,7-dimethyl-1H-purine-2,6-dione Feed Me.... Another Online Dwelling Place... "All right, I confess. It is my intention to comandeer a ship, pick up a crew in Tortuga, to rape, pillage, plunder and otherwise pilfer my weasely black guts out." -Captain Jack Sparrow "The trouble with unknown enemies is that they are so difficult to identify." -Amelia Peabody Emerson "Most people obey the orders of someone who is pointing a gun at their head." -A.P. Emerson

04-24-2002, 01:30 AM	#42
Eruviel Greenleaf Alcoholic Villain-Fancying Elf Pirate Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Lyonesse Posts: 4,547	They are set in Victorian England, and are called Ruby in the Smoke, Shadow in the North, and The Tiger in the Well. And he wrote another one about a character from Ruby in the Smoke which takes place quite a few years later, called The Tin Princess. They're all good. Read them, if you haven't! __________________ Eruviel Greenleaf in a past life. "Whoever has come to understand the world has found only a corpse, and whoever has found a corpse is superior to the world." -The Gospel of Thomas SQUAWK!

05-13-2002, 01:48 AM	#43
Eruviel Greenleaf Alcoholic Villain-Fancying Elf Pirate Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Lyonesse Posts: 4,547	Phillip Pullman is speaking at Barnes & Noble tues night! (well, the one in Seattle. . .) Hooray!!! Maybe I can get my books signed!!! __________________ Eruviel Greenleaf in a past life. "Whoever has come to understand the world has found only a corpse, and whoever has found a corpse is superior to the world." -The Gospel of Thomas SQUAWK!

05-14-2002, 04:10 PM	#45
Eruviel Greenleaf Alcoholic Villain-Fancying Elf Pirate Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Lyonesse Posts: 4,547	dances around the room Phillip Pullman is coming! I'm really excited now... __________________ Eruviel Greenleaf in a past life. "Whoever has come to understand the world has found only a corpse, and whoever has found a corpse is superior to the world." -The Gospel of Thomas SQUAWK!

05-19-2002, 02:51 AM	#46
cassiopeia Viggoholic Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Australia Posts: 1,749	I love his dark materials and the Sally Lockhart series! I don't know if anyone else has posted this but I just saw (at TheOneRing.net) that the dark materials books might be made into a movie! That would be so good. The link is here __________________ Kids, you tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is, never try.

05-14-2002, 11:01 AM	#44
Garina Elf Lord Join Date: May 2002 Location: Tring, Herts, England Posts: 582	Philip Pullman is brilliant!!! I love His Dark Materials. I read them at a friends house at New Year and have never been able to forget them. I cried at the end too!. I'm a Christian but I didn't find anything wrong with the books. I know the ideas are 'interesting', but if a book is obviously fantasy I dont care about the mythology. I got a bit confused, but I still really enjoyed them! I really want to read the Ruby in the Smoke series, but they're not in the libraries and I have no money! oh well christmas isn't too far away. lol

05-19-2002, 04:19 PM	#47
Eruviel Greenleaf Alcoholic Villain-Fancying Elf Pirate Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Lyonesse Posts: 4,547	eek Well, they did a good job with LotR, so perhaps I ought to have faith that they will do well with this one as well. It's just I've always feared they would make a movie of His Dark Materials, and ruin it. But perhaps not, with this. . .thanks for posting that, cassiopeia!!! __________________ Eruviel Greenleaf in a past life. "Whoever has come to understand the world has found only a corpse, and whoever has found a corpse is superior to the world." -The Gospel of Thomas SQUAWK!

05-20-2002, 10:58 PM	#48
Tanoliel Eccentric Chocolate Crow Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: The Emerald City--Seattle, WA Posts: 1,861	ooooo....drools Tom Stoppard and New Line? okee, i'm not worried! really, EG, Stoppard is awesome (read R&G Are Dead sometime, it's wonderful) and since New Line did LotR...well, that's just cool. Heh...remember The Golden Compass Disney Style? EEEK! -tano __________________ Wisdom for Short Attention Spans...Ozy and Millie. It rocks. Food Of The Gods: 3,7-dihydro-3,7-dimethyl-1H-purine-2,6-dione Feed Me.... Another Online Dwelling Place... "All right, I confess. It is my intention to comandeer a ship, pick up a crew in Tortuga, to rape, pillage, plunder and otherwise pilfer my weasely black guts out." -Captain Jack Sparrow "The trouble with unknown enemies is that they are so difficult to identify." -Amelia Peabody Emerson "Most people obey the orders of someone who is pointing a gun at their head." -A.P. Emerson

05-21-2002, 12:29 AM	#49
Eruviel Greenleaf Alcoholic Villain-Fancying Elf Pirate Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Lyonesse Posts: 4,547	Considering our fear-of-Disney conversations, you'd think one would expect pessemism from me But maybe it will be good. . .who knows. Okay, I'll try to be optimistic __________________ Eruviel Greenleaf in a past life. "Whoever has come to understand the world has found only a corpse, and whoever has found a corpse is superior to the world." -The Gospel of Thomas SQUAWK!

06-09-2002, 05:59 PM	#50
TwirlingString Elven Warrior Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: My mother would say somewhere between the adult mystery section and the YA sci-fi Posts: 489	The biggest problem with movie version:They have to cut things out, and it always turns out to be someones favorite part. __________________ "The Astels are an emotional people. They cry at the drop of a handkerchief. Their culture is much like that of Pelosia. They're extremely devot and invincibly backward. It's been demonstrated to them over an over that serfdom is an archaic, inefficent institution, but they maintain it anyway--largely at the connivance of the serfs thmselves. Astellian nobles don't exert themselves in any way, so they have no concept of human endurance. The serfs take advantage of that outrageously. Astellian serfs have been known to collapse from sheer exhauston at the very mention of such unpleasant words as 'reaping' or 'digging'." ----------------------------------------------- “They lost him?!” Lupin asked , amazed. “Voldemort has been after Harry for 15 years, and then he misplaces him?!”

07-01-2002, 01:29 PM	#52
Hanza Woolly Jumper Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: In my field of paper flowers and candy clouds of lullaby Posts: 1,200	Hi! I have read northen Lights & found it wicked! I have started Subtle Knife but I'm finding it harder to get into.any tips???

07-01-2002, 02:51 PM	#53
Tanoliel Eccentric Chocolate Crow Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: The Emerald City--Seattle, WA Posts: 1,861	Yep. Keep reading. Subtle Knife is a little weirder, but just keep reading and it gets easier. Well, maybe not, but as you read more you understand more. It's very good...personally I like the first one best (it is, as you so eloquently put it, wicked) but the other two are fantastic as well. Happy reading! -tano __________________ Wisdom for Short Attention Spans...Ozy and Millie. It rocks. Food Of The Gods: 3,7-dihydro-3,7-dimethyl-1H-purine-2,6-dione Feed Me.... Another Online Dwelling Place... "All right, I confess. It is my intention to comandeer a ship, pick up a crew in Tortuga, to rape, pillage, plunder and otherwise pilfer my weasely black guts out." -Captain Jack Sparrow "The trouble with unknown enemies is that they are so difficult to identify." -Amelia Peabody Emerson "Most people obey the orders of someone who is pointing a gun at their head." -A.P. Emerson

07-11-2002, 10:54 PM	#54
Erendis Sapling Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Toronto Posts: 11	I love HDM! I made a webpage on it once but I don't remember what happened to it. hhmm...let's see if I can find it... My cousin gave The Golden Compass to me for Christmas a few years ago but I didn't start reading until the year after. Then I was totally hooked...I got my friend obsessed with the series too. I heard they might end up not making the movie because that guy (I don't remember his name S---something) had another project. I dunno. shrugs __________________ A Elentári Tintalle silmarin penda m?rea menello alcar eldion! Haiyanna palant?rina aldarembie endorillor Fanoiolosse, len linduvan nive ear, simen nive earon!

07-12-2002, 01:35 AM	#55
Tanoliel Eccentric Chocolate Crow Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: The Emerald City--Seattle, WA Posts: 1,861	Which guy? Not Spielberg? (gets sudden image of jurassic compass uh....) I don't really care one way or the other. I mean, it would be kinda fun to see what they did with it, but on the other hand, i'm not clamoring for them to make a movie either. The only thing that really bugs me when books are made into movies are the people who think they know the story just by seeing the movie and not reading the books. I dunno. Anyway. It might be kind of fun anyhow! -tano __________________ Wisdom for Short Attention Spans...Ozy and Millie. It rocks. Food Of The Gods: 3,7-dihydro-3,7-dimethyl-1H-purine-2,6-dione Feed Me.... Another Online Dwelling Place... "All right, I confess. It is my intention to comandeer a ship, pick up a crew in Tortuga, to rape, pillage, plunder and otherwise pilfer my weasely black guts out." -Captain Jack Sparrow "The trouble with unknown enemies is that they are so difficult to identify." -Amelia Peabody Emerson "Most people obey the orders of someone who is pointing a gun at their head." -A.P. Emerson

07-12-2002, 01:45 AM	#56
cassiopeia Viggoholic Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Australia Posts: 1,749	I think the guy is Tom Stoppard. Check my previous post for the link. Tano, your not refering to a certain trilogy are you? __________________ Kids, you tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is, never try.

07-12-2002, 01:48 AM	#57
Tanoliel Eccentric Chocolate Crow Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: The Emerald City--Seattle, WA Posts: 1,861	eRp Actually, I wasn't. I was speaking generally. But it's more the people who pretend to know a whole bunch about stuff....and well...nevermind. I think I'll stop before I fall into this hole I'm digging for myself. AH, right! Stoppard! That was it. Okay. Forget Spielberg, it was just the first name that popped into my head. Yeah. Stoppard's good. -tano __________________ Wisdom for Short Attention Spans...Ozy and Millie. It rocks. Food Of The Gods: 3,7-dihydro-3,7-dimethyl-1H-purine-2,6-dione Feed Me.... Another Online Dwelling Place... "All right, I confess. It is my intention to comandeer a ship, pick up a crew in Tortuga, to rape, pillage, plunder and otherwise pilfer my weasely black guts out." -Captain Jack Sparrow "The trouble with unknown enemies is that they are so difficult to identify." -Amelia Peabody Emerson "Most people obey the orders of someone who is pointing a gun at their head." -A.P. Emerson

07-14-2002, 09:52 PM	#59
Erawyn Elven Warrior Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: america junior Posts: 320	i love these books sooo much! they are tied with lotr for my fave books! they are the only books that have ever made me cry!i think Phillip Pullman is brilliant, though i couldn't get into the sally lockhart books. __________________ peace never hurt anyone "Be not so bigoted to any custom as to worship it at the expense of Truth." Johann Georg von Zimmermann

07-20-2002, 01:54 PM	#60
TwirlingString Elven Warrior Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: My mother would say somewhere between the adult mystery section and the YA sci-fi Posts: 489	How many of them did you read some are really god but one is just strange __________________ "The Astels are an emotional people. They cry at the drop of a handkerchief. Their culture is much like that of Pelosia. They're extremely devot and invincibly backward. It's been demonstrated to them over an over that serfdom is an archaic, inefficent institution, but they maintain it anyway--largely at the connivance of the serfs thmselves. Astellian nobles don't exert themselves in any way, so they have no concept of human endurance. The serfs take advantage of that outrageously. Astellian serfs have been known to collapse from sheer exhauston at the very mention of such unpleasant words as 'reaping' or 'digging'." ----------------------------------------------- “They lost him?!” Lupin asked , amazed. “Voldemort has been after Harry for 15 years, and then he misplaces him?!”

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