Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 10:30:35 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Burning at the Stake (Not!)
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

True enough . . . tell that to the folks who are burning Harry Potter =
books and wanting them banned in schools.  There are loons out there.

mjw

>>> StrongL at MTMC.ARMY.MIL 04/14/03 10:19AM >>>
	(Yawnnn.)
	Gee whiz, Mike, I thought you or Mr. Pullman were talking about
something **controversial**.  People have been "dealing with organized
religion and God in a rather less than complimentary way" for thousands of
years.  Got anything **new** for us to talk about?

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Walsh [mailto:MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu]
Sent: Monday, April 14, 2003 9:38 AM
To: WSFAlist at keithlynch.net
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Phillip Pullman news

> StrongL at MTMC.ARMY.MIL 04/14/03 09:20AM
>	(Yawn.)
>	If fictional geography and fictional science are sufficient to get
>people burned at the stake, it'll be a long time before Mr. Pullman's =
turn
>comes up.

He deals with organized religion and god/God, in a rather less than =
complimentary way.

The first book was quite good, the second & third somewhat less so.  But =
=
YMMV.

mjw