On their own? I don't really feel much attachment.
I'm sure that's a tremendous part of it-- being "in the middle" of it, speculating how it'll all shake out...
I'd rather chew off my hand than read the first two installments aloud to a child, though.
I was SO disappointed by HDM, as it came to me with many, many passionate recommendations. I didn't really like either of the kids and by the end I just didn't give a damn about anyone except the woman who made the amber spyglass. I actually gave the trilogy away, and I don't GIVE books away. Compared with the kids from the Psammead books, or the Eager books, or The Thursday Kidnapping, Lyra and Will felt so... unreal. I never bonded with them as characters.
I wanted to make spoiler T-shirts like the "Dumbledore Dies on Page Whatever" except saying "God Dies on Page Whatever," I really did.
Slap Bridge to Terabithia in there as well, while you're at it.
That was such a god-damn bait and switch. It made me very angry.
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Date: 2011-12-27 11:40 pm (UTC)I'm sure that's a tremendous part of it-- being "in the middle" of it, speculating how it'll all shake out...
I'd rather chew off my hand than read the first two installments aloud to a child, though.
I was SO disappointed by HDM, as it came to me with many, many passionate recommendations. I didn't really like either of the kids and by the end I just didn't give a damn about anyone except the woman who made the amber spyglass. I actually gave the trilogy away, and I don't GIVE books away. Compared with the kids from the Psammead books, or the Eager books, or The Thursday Kidnapping, Lyra and Will felt so... unreal. I never bonded with them as characters.
I wanted to make spoiler T-shirts like the "Dumbledore Dies on Page Whatever" except saying "God Dies on Page Whatever," I really did.
Slap Bridge to Terabithia in there as well, while you're at it.
That was such a god-damn bait and switch. It made me very angry.