I received the book Planet Narnia for my birthday in November. It’s a fascinating and compelling look at the seven classical planets in C S Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia, and does a great job of making its bold claim that the seven planets are the hidden key to the books seem plausible. Even if you […]
That was the question posed in the Books section of Outpost Gallifrey recently. You might not be surprised to read that my short answer is “No”, but hopefully my further observations might be of some interest… First of all, I really enjoy all three writers and their books. Secondly, in the interests of full disclosure, […]
A few weeks ago, I got to see a preview screening of Prince Caspian, which is out in the UK on 26th June, courtesy of Christian charity Care for the Family. Here are my thoughts on the film – I’ll try not to give too much away. First off, it is a very entertaining film, […]
“I hate the Narnia books,” said Philip Pullman, author of the His Dark Materials trilogy, “and I hate them with deep and bitter passion, with their view of childhood as a golden age from which sexuality and adulthood are a falling away”. [link] The essay I found most interesting to write last year (and got […]
What took him so long? Yes, Philip Pullman, author of the His Dark Materials trilogy and Richard Dawkins of the literary world has been on the warpath against The Chronicles of Narnia again. When The Guardian ran a feature previewing the film a few weeks ago which described The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe […]
Rich and Sarah have both commented that Artemis Fowl isn’t as bad as all that. I’ll say now that I don’t think that Artemis Fowl is the worst book anywhere in the world across all of history. But it is one of the ones that annoyed me the most on reading it, and it embodies […]