I enjoyed this more than 1st time round, many years ago. It is really just a rollicking good yarn, aimed I think at kids and the book is a lot better than the current BBC adaption, which is importing a lot of extraneous material from other books in the trilogy. This makes it harder to follow on the TV, and the narrative of the book is a lot more straightforward.
I still don’t really understand all the symbolism; is ‘dust’ sexuality, or the opposite, and if the book is an anti-religious rant, and gobblers and magisterium are not clear analogies to me of anything. But it remains a good yarn, for kids.
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