I just finished the first His Dark Materials book and started the second today. I don't think any of it is unlike other stuff I've read before, but I do like it nonetheless.

There was a play in York (where we live) of the whole trilogy, I only heard about it after the event but I probably wouldn't have gone anyway so as not to ruin the story for me. I was told that they used a real cat for Lyra's daemon, so that kind of tells me a bit about the future that I didn't already know.

I heard that a movie of the Dark materials is in the pipeline, but that they have to remove all references to the Roman Catholic Church etc. . . . .

Which would pretty much ruin the movie. . . .

#shakes head#

And Nicole Kidman has now signed up to play the part of Mrs. Coulter.

Edit: More info here

I'm halfway through the third, final, book now and still enjoying it. A couple of my writer friends think the citagazze world is totally uneeded, a kind of pointless in between place that distracts from the story too much. I'm not so sure about that myself...

I can't wait to see the films.
Fingers crossed that they'll be good!

I didn't realize it, but when I was reading the books, I had a person very much looking like Kidman in my mind. Huh. Kinda neat/weird.

I love Phillip Pullman too and I like his rabid anti-Christianity cuz I am nearly as rabid as he is in that respect. Artemis Fowl is alright not bad but not great. My mom has really weird taste in books. She thinks Discworld is crap, Artemis Fowl is crap and Phillip Pullman is a god. (Though obviously not because of his rabidness about anti-Christianity.)