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   Steve Hayes to chenrich@monmouth.com   
   Re: Pull of the Narnia marketing machine   
   06 Jan 06 08:55:40   
   
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   From: hayesmstw@hotmail.com   
      
   On Fri, 06 Jan 2006 03:36:48 GMT, "Christopher J. Henrich"   
    wrote:   
      
   >In article <1136511801.020660.146300@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,   
   >Cori  wrote:   
   >   
   >> >From what I've read of this Philip Pullman character, he has all the   
   >> answers and all the antidotes to the C. S. Lewis viewpoint?  And, it   
   >> seems, at least some influential following on his side, as he's won   
   >> awards doing this.   
   >>   
   >> Cori   
   >>   
   >If he has won awards,I think they are due to his own merits, which are   
   >substantial. (I speak as a lifelong fan of C. S. Lewis.)   
   >   
   >Mr. Pullman does not show himself at his best in his anti-Narnia   
   >polemic.   
      
   Mr Pullman's comments on Narnia give the distinct impression os sour grapes.   
      
   He'd do better trying to improve his own writing than denigrating that of   
   other people. C.S. Lewis was a far better literary critic than Pullman, and I   
   suspect would have seen some merit in Pullman's work.   
      
      
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