I love fantasy and I love Pullman, but I was bored by the Golden Compass. Never made it more than 1/3 of the way in. And I really tried, because growing up his Sally Lockhart books were some of my favorites.

I think that the whole point of HP is that they were insanely accessible. You don't have to work very hard to get to and understand the story, which is exciting and full of good vs evil.

Of course, people who are proud of not belonging do seem to get extra-special thrills from not liking popular things. I absolutely went through that phase in high school and the beginning of college. I think I'm mostly grown out of it though. LOL

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I always liked Golden Compass, but I can't even remember what went on in Amber Spyglass. I almost stopped reading when the woman was sitting in a tree messing around with sap and elephants on wheels.

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My only memory of AS is being genuinely angry at the book for not living up to its hype. I was promised this awesome book about atheism and god not existing and whatnot, and the book CHEATED ME! Fuck you, book!

(Fuck you and your weirdly creepy scenes between the two kids and their daemons, also, while I'm at it, because ... ew?)

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