
Daemon Voices
On Stories and Storytelling
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Narrated by:
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Philip Pullman
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Simon Mason
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By:
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Philip Pullman
From the internationally best-selling author of the His Dark Materials trilogy, a spellbinding journey into the secrets of his art - the narratives that have shaped his vision, his experience of writing, and the keys to mastering the art of storytelling.
One of the most highly acclaimed and best-selling authors of our time now gives us a book that charts the history of his own enchantment with story - from his own books to those of Blake, Milton, Dickens, and the Brothers Grimm, among others - and delves into the role of story in education, religion, and science. At once personal and wide-ranging, Daemon Voices is both a revelation of the writing mind and the methods of a great contemporary master and a fascinating exploration of storytelling itself.
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Critic reviews
"These essays cast a spell.... To read them is to be invigorated by the company of a joyfully wide-ranging, endlessly curious and imaginative mind...a delightful jaunt...." (The New York Times Book Review)
"A splendid collection...literary insights that will enrich and inspire." (The Wall Street Journal)
“Few contemporary writers of imaginative fiction are able to explore large ethical and moral issues authoritatively, accommodating both intellect and emotion.... Pullman achieves this without abandoning personal responsibility.... This wide-ranging excursion maintains impressive coherence and is bound to satisfy devoted Pullman readers curious about his illuminating observations and why the appetite for - and value of - fiction is universal, from fire-lit cave to seminar room.” (Library Journal)
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Fascinating
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Great performance by the Author
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Read it. You don't have to agree with it.
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However, as many reviews have stated, he has a very unflattering opinion about religion and fantasy. I was expecting that and thought I would sympathize, but the anger that transpires in his last essays is very unsettling.
I would like him to acknowledge he is not above people who believe in God. As he said himself, it’s the morality that counts. His work is wonderful, but it is certainly not great enough to be so despising of other fantasy authors. And no, His Dark Materials are not the only profound books of fantasy out there, and he is old enough to know them.
A double-edged sword
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Challenging, thoughtful literary journey
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Varying topics mean varying reactions.
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Entertaining and Profound
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Blasphemous in the best way possible
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Old dude give unsolicited life advise.
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I believe in a higher power and he went on and on about how one shouldn't preach about your faith to others, which I don't, because I respect other people's opinions and agree that making arguments about something you can't prove to anyone is pointless. But then he became hypocritical, because he himself was preaching about not believing in higher power, to the point of implying that we all believers were idiots because there was nothing there to believe in. That really annoyed me. I don't care what other people think or believe or don't believe in, including him, but talking down to others is not ok. It was like he was doing to others what he didn't like being done to him. I'm not sure if that was his intention or not, but he could have tried to be more diplomatic about the topic. Nobody likes being talked down to.
I started out really liking him as an author and lecturer and then disliking him as a person in the end. I still gave it three stars because the first lectures were good. I would even go so far to recommend to prospective writers to listen to those. The rest was "mehh."
Mixed views
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