Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Fantasy and more fantasy...

Here is more info on the Philip Pullman series, His Dark Materials.
http://www.amywelborn.com/reviews/pullman.html

We saw The Seeker: The Dark is Rising over the weekend, and we were all disappointed. Why, oh why must they differ from the book so much and so needlessly? I am happy to support Walden Media and any media company that is trying to put out a better product than Hollywood normally generates. I just wish they would do it a little better.

I also began the Bartimaeus Trilogy, by Jonathan Stroud. In The Amulet of Samarkand, Chapter One, a boy summons a djinni. The djinni then plots to disturb the boy's mind by showing him pictures of naked women. That's as far as I got. Not Recommended.

Midnight for Charlie Bone, from The Children of the Red King series by Jenny Nimmo is a fantasy book about a boy who discovers he has a special power, gets sent to a special school, and is trying to discover what happened to his father. Nimmo has some interesting twists on what could be a formulaic series. Recommended.

1 comment:

  1. In the The Amulet of Samarkand - I am not sure I like the book either but don't see where the djinni shows the boy pictures of naked women. In the first chapter or later on? Thanks.

    ReplyDelete

Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Fantasy and more fantasy...

Here is more info on the Philip Pullman series, His Dark Materials.
http://www.amywelborn.com/reviews/pullman.html

We saw The Seeker: The Dark is Rising over the weekend, and we were all disappointed. Why, oh why must they differ from the book so much and so needlessly? I am happy to support Walden Media and any media company that is trying to put out a better product than Hollywood normally generates. I just wish they would do it a little better.

I also began the Bartimaeus Trilogy, by Jonathan Stroud. In The Amulet of Samarkand, Chapter One, a boy summons a djinni. The djinni then plots to disturb the boy's mind by showing him pictures of naked women. That's as far as I got. Not Recommended.

Midnight for Charlie Bone, from The Children of the Red King series by Jenny Nimmo is a fantasy book about a boy who discovers he has a special power, gets sent to a special school, and is trying to discover what happened to his father. Nimmo has some interesting twists on what could be a formulaic series. Recommended.

1 comment:

  1. In the The Amulet of Samarkand - I am not sure I like the book either but don't see where the djinni shows the boy pictures of naked women. In the first chapter or later on? Thanks.

    ReplyDelete