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More lag time between posts and I’m sorry for that.  It’s been rather a slow week in the news sources I look at, but I’m thinking of doing another post on my favorite villains.  I keep realizing that I’ve missed so many good ones.  Yeah…

Well I can tell you that I’ve finally finished The Golden Compass.  Big twist at the ending for me.  I felt like Mrs. Coulter just lost all of her cool points (forgive the vernacular, but I am impassioned).  She was cruel, she was smooth… and at the end it just got weird.  Otherwise, despite my differences of faith with Mr. Pullman, I quite liked his writing style, overall.  He has quite a knack for interesting description.   I don’t know whether the plot got slow or if I just got too busy,  but I did lose interest for a while and came back to finish it last night.  Would I recommend it?  Maybe…  I don’t think it’s for everyone.  It’s not so much the faith issue in this first book as it is an element of style which, I think, is an acquired taste in this instance.