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   From: severian22000.at.yahoo.co.uk@   
      
   On Sat, 07 Jan 2006 06:18:49 +0200, Steve Hayes   
    wrote:   
      
   >   
   >If his books were significantly better than Lewis's, it might look less like   
   >sour grapes, but they are not. So I think his position as writer and critic   
   >are interrelated. He accuses Lewis of being preachy, but is far more preachy   
   >in his books.   
      
   Or in the the second and third, at least. "Northern Lights" stunned me   
   when I first read it - there's no preaching at all,the theology is   
   implicit, and it unfolds in a way that's natural and consistent with   
   Lyra's world.   
      
   I got progressively disappointed with the others to the point that I   
   thought I'd fooled myself how good the first was - until I went back   
   to read it again.   
      
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