tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28103455.post6967710687921110806..comments2024-03-09T05:53:59.542-05:00Comments on Oz and Ends: G. P. Taylor Seizes His OpportunitiesUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28103455.post-65233766705434319292008-08-17T09:55:00.000-05:002008-08-17T09:55:00.000-05:00GP Taylor is also referenced at the IMDB, and his ...GP Taylor is also referenced at the IMDB, and his birthdate there is 1961.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28103455.post-29539611521711876152008-08-12T04:48:00.000-05:002008-08-12T04:48:00.000-05:00Likewise, as I think you've covered before, there ...Likewise, as I think you've covered before, there are discrepancies between the stories of when the wheel came off his car near Bristol: in one version his chuaffeur stops doing 70mph and is exiting the motorway because of the wobbly wheel, and is slowing down on the slip-road when the wheel comes off; in another account, GPT states "A few minutes later we’d have been doing 70 mph and it could have been fatal." <BR/><BR/>In a 2006 interview with Dr David Rafer on GP's website, there is mention of the "new CS Lewis" tag coming from the States: it clearly has more than one provenance, as I have read of GPT quoting it many times (...begrudgingly, as it were) in interviews.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28103455.post-40994732732520480622008-08-12T00:26:00.000-05:002008-08-12T00:26:00.000-05:00Thanks for the clarification. I erred in not read...Thanks for the clarification. I erred in not reading the open letter myself before replying.Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01714171897239398438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28103455.post-584072230627913842008-08-11T14:19:00.000-05:002008-08-11T14:19:00.000-05:00I accidentally deleted the following post from RAB...I accidentally deleted the following post from <A HREF="http://estoreal.blogspot.com/" REL="nofollow">RAB</A> after replying to it above. But I found the text again: <BR/><BR/><I>"Christian groups wanted to burn it..."</I><BR/><BR/>So Taylor professes membership in a group he claims are in favor of book burning?<BR/> <BR/>As you say, I don't remember hearing of any Christian groups calling for immolation of <I>His Dark Materials</I>. Anecdotally, I had quite a few conversations with Christian SF and fantasy fans circa 2001 about their reaction to the series. I was expecting hostility toward the whole concept of daemons would keep them from getting to the parts about the Authority, but the readers I spoke to were fairly sophisticated and had little trouble with the premise. They didn't like the message, but even the most dogmatically rigid of this group acknowledged the beauty of the prose and Pullman's skill as a writer. Nor were any of them disposed to tolerate burning of any books whatsoever.J. L. Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15405157000473731801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28103455.post-32526432962514412062008-08-11T14:11:00.000-05:002008-08-11T14:11:00.000-05:00Taylor's open letter is quite clear that he does n...Taylor's open letter is quite clear that he does not advocate book-burning. In fact, he even suggests people go to see <I>The Golden Compass</I> in theaters.<BR/><BR/>It says:<BR/><I>We are living in an age when so many things will come and try and destroy the Christian heritage of the American nation. We will have to fight to preserve it. </I>The Golden Compass<I> is yet another salvo against us. We must never forget that God is supreme and when the works of Pullman - like that [sic] of Voltaire [-] are forgotten books, the Word will be still alive. I only hope that in writing Shadowmancer - Wormwood - Tersias and my other books that children and young people will get an alternative view of a great God.<BR/><BR/>I would urge you to see the film and judge for yourself, what we must not do is fall into the trap of book burning and blockading movie theaters. </I><BR/><BR/>So Taylor’s proposed solution to <I>The Golden Compass</I>'s threat to the "American nation" that he cares deeply about is...buying more of G. P. Taylor’s books.<BR/><BR/>I remember a discussion on the CW email list with someone seeing "Christian" themes in the first two His Dark Materials books, and wondering if they represented the author's ideology. I pointed her to a <I>New York Times</I> article that had appeared just that week about Pullman's anti-orthodoxy views. (Which means I might even be able to date that conversation.)J. L. Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15405157000473731801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28103455.post-66202949805097201132008-08-11T12:58:00.000-05:002008-08-11T12:58:00.000-05:00Aargh. G.P.Taylor. The worst 50 pages I've ever r...Aargh. G.P.Taylor. The worst 50 pages I've ever read were written by him.<BR/><BR/>Careful, he attacks.Kellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15169707337312707247noreply@blogger.com