philip pullman's the amber spyglass
this is a nice wrap-up to the his dark materials series, lots of action and excitement and romance and stuff. of course, the weird religious themes can be a little much (they've put of several religion grad students i know), but it's still a good story based on the characters alone. even the supporting characters are great; it's impossible not to fall in love with all of them. i always feel like this story would make a good movie, but of course i doubt it'd get the funding with its barely veiled anti-church sentiments, and it's impossible to tell the story without referencing genesis.
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I read a while ago, and IMDB confirms, that "Golden Compass" is somewhere in the development process.
http://imdb.com/title/tt0385752/
All it says so far is that Tom Stoppard is working on the screenplay. In other words, still VERY early on.
- georg
interesting! though, of course, the first one has only the barest hints of religious themes, so maybe if they made it and it was wildly successful (a la the harry potter movies), they would have more leverage to make the sequels. or maybe it will never get past the writing stage. i'm still surprised they managed to make a lemony snicket movie (w/ jim carrey?! ugh! olaf should be scary and creepy and he just doesn't seem to be pulling off anything besides extreme hamminess in the trailer).
heh, don't worry, i'm a hardcore harry potter fan too! i've reread them so many times that they no longer count toward my book totals. :)
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