Loathing the Golden Compass and all that magical shite

[camouflage]

Or Dune.

Yeah, Dune's good. And I loved the film.

 

[DotCommunist]

Is it just me? I dragged myself through His Dark Materials, willing to give it a chance as so many had raved about it. I hated it, just like I hate anything with goblins, daemons or orcs in it. My other half just started reading a Golden Compass extract and I was happy to see him start to rant on about fucking armoured bears and shit. My six year old quite likes that kind of stuff but then he is only six and still believes in santa and the tooth fairy. So does anyone else hate this shit? I think I was scarred by reading The Hobbit at a young age. Don't get me started on that bastard Tolkien.

*waves wand at Meow*

Expecto suspendo disbeliefo!

 

[DotCommunist]

And ITS NOT A FUCKING COMPASS

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Who gives a fuck if you like it or not you miserable git . I've given up moaning about how crap and badly written the harry potter books are because the mrs likes them and she won't be convinced otherwise . You don't have to read the damn books and you don't have to complain about them but it seems you have done both of those and made the world just that little bit more miserable because of it

I have the same (problem?) she loves um. Moaning does indeed only create arguments but sometimes I can't help myself.

After watching the first LOTR film with Mrs Suplex I moaned all the way home until she exploded with rage. Oops.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

And ITS NOT A FUCKING COMPASS

Maybe you could use it to draw a circle?

 

[kyser_soze]

I didn't know I was going to hate it until I'd read the fecking thing!

You know you hate books with faeries, daemons and what have you, then you go and read a book you know has some of these fantastical elements in it, and then slag it off for being crap for having those elements in it.

See why some of us are 'Huh?' with regards your comments about it?

 

[Chairman Meow]

You know you hate books with faeries, daemons and what have you, then you go and read a book you know has some of these fantastical elements in it, and then slag it off for being crap for having those elements in it.

See why some of us are 'Huh?' with regards your comments about it?

No. I knew I hated other books I'd read with faeries and crap in them, but I hadn't read any in years (oh, except for HP) , probably since I was a teenager, when the Hobbit got right on my tits. So, as HDM was practically foist on me by a number of people who I would usually trust to have reasonable literary taste I thought I would give it a go. I was told, 'Oh but it isn't just magical fantasmaloonery - there is an anti-Christian theme, and its sooooo well written too! So, I gave it a go, thinking, maybe in the last twenty years the genre has improved and / or my tolerance for goblins etc. has increased! But no! I still thought it was shite.

I don't know why this seems to be upsetting people. People are allowed to hate books you like you know. If it helps any, I just finished On Chesil Beach and thought it was shite too - and nary a goblin in sight!

 

[DotCommunist]

No. I knew I hated other books I'd read with faeries and crap in them, but I hadn't read any in years (oh, except for HP) , probably since I was a teenager, when the Hobbit got right on my tits. So, as HDM was practically foist on me by a number of people who I would usually trust to have reasonable literary taste I thought I would give it a go. I was told, 'Oh but it isn't just magical fantasmaloonery - there is an anti-Christian theme, and its sooooo well written too! So, I gave it a go, thinking, maybe in the last twenty years the genre has improved and / or my tolerance for goblins etc. has increased! But no! I still thought it was shite.

I don't know why this seems to be upsetting people. People are allowed to hate books you like you know. If it helps any, I just finished On Chesil Beach and thought it was shite too - and nary a goblin in sight!

Read Hugo Cook, Steven Erickson and the legend that is Gene Wolfe

THAT's good fantasy. Potter LOTR and others have spearheaded a rise in the celebration of the genre's very worst aspects

HDM is a cracking read imho , although it is a litle too worthy in places

 

[Chairman Meow]

Read Hugo Cook, Steven Erickson and the legend that is Gene Wolfe

THAT's good fantasy. Potter LOTR and others have spearheaded a rise in the celebration of the genre's very worst aspects

Do I have to?

 

[DotCommunist]

Do I have to?

It's either that or never venture an opinion on the genre again. I have spoken

 

[Chairman Meow]

It's either that or never venture an opinion on the genre again. I have spoken

But then people will tell me off for reading books that I apaprantly should know I dislike in advance before reading them. Or something!

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

Anyway, I finished book one the other day after having spent months trawling through it. Picked up book two and am already nearly at the end

It's definitely much easier going than the first. and it's wicked how all the different worlds are interweaving.