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His Dark Materials has been voted best children's book in 70 years: agree or disagree?

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compo · 22/06/2007 11:37

I would have gone with The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe myself.

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tortoiseSHELL · 22/06/2007 12:19

foxinsocks - oh yes, Dh got it from the Book Club at work - ds1 LOVES it!

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tortoiseSHELL · 22/06/2007 12:18

Really? I must try and read them in that case. Sound worth reading.

Marina · 22/06/2007 12:18

FIS there will be aspects of HDM that will not feature in the film I guarantee it

Marina · 22/06/2007 12:17

tortoiseSHELL, it consists of two dazzlingly original and profoundly disturbing novels followed by a heroic failure to resolve the different plot strands convincingly
Pullman is viewed as extremely antagonistic to Christianity btw, something that bothers him not a jot, quite correctly IMO
I am not sure when or if I will ever be able to re-read these books. They really are that powerful and overwhelming.

RosaLuxembourg · 22/06/2007 12:16

I voted for Tom's Midnight Garden pesonally. DD1 voted for The Family at One End Street. We both voted for Dogger on the Kate Greenaway shortlist. So glad it won - my fave picture book of all time (apart from The Tiger who came to Tea)

foxinsocks · 22/06/2007 12:14

have you got the Book People Roald Dahl CD set tortoise? Some ridiculously cheap price

I wonder what the film of HDM will be like

dinosaur · 22/06/2007 12:14

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tortoiseSHELL · 22/06/2007 12:13

Don't think I've read HDM. Books I loved were all the Tolkien ones, the 'Katy' books, the Little Women books, The Dark is Rising, the 'Gemma' books, and ALL the Roald Dahl books. Ds1 is JUST getting into them - we're reading the BFG at bedtime, and he's read some of the simpler books himself - he loves Esio Trot, Fantastic Mr Fox, Matilda, The Twits.

Marina · 22/06/2007 12:12

LOLOLOL at shed closing in
Like all the best writers he is undeniably barking

dinosaur · 22/06/2007 12:12

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Enid · 22/06/2007 12:11

I think if I had just taken a tab of acid it would have made perfect sense

I reckon his shed was closing in on him by book 3

Marina · 22/06/2007 12:11

The moofala did for you too then moo
Agree with enid book three goes off spectacularly

Enid · 22/06/2007 12:10

she has written a set of 'adult' books that were launched at the same time as the pony books

its all sick and wrong IMO

Marina · 22/06/2007 12:10

Public vote for Pullman as all-time best winner of Carnegie Medal here you go compo

dinosaur · 22/06/2007 12:10

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Enid · 22/06/2007 12:09

lolol marina

Marina · 22/06/2007 12:08

Oh and A Heartbreaking Waste of Marina's Money by that pill Dave Eggars

moo · 22/06/2007 12:07

Jordan's written a children's book? Oh...OK.

Am I the only one who didn't finish HDM then? I gave up midway through the third book (to be fair, I had just had ds2 and couldn't concentrate or stay awake).

foxinsocks · 22/06/2007 12:07

I quite enjoyed Ulysses (but haven't even got past the first page of any of the others)

lol enid - I loved that comment. I also reckon that sort of book, written by Jordan, would outsell all her pissy pony books put together.

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compo · 22/06/2007 12:05

Marina I read it in The Sun
It said it was voted for last night but didn't give any more details

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Enid · 22/06/2007 12:05

i have done ulysees [smug]
actually its not too bad once you give yourself over to it

Enid · 22/06/2007 12:04

lol @ cloud atlas - me too

and that d c pierre one

dinosaur · 22/06/2007 12:04

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Enid · 22/06/2007 12:04

yes me too

I really begged my dad to buy it for me too

I lied and pretended I had read it

I love this comment from the guardien arts blog re katie price horse stories:

""Oooh, you bitch" neighed Tinkerbell as she was confronted with the sight of Moppet enjoying a clopping romp in the meadow with her cheating love-stallion Blazer."