Culturegeeks

With the upcoming release of the film version, Catholics and apparently now Mormons too have been getting their knickers in a twist over Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy. According to the Telegraph, the Catholic Herald has said that the book should be burned, and now school boards in Canada and the U.S. are self-righteously pulling it off the shelves. I might have just been asleep for all these years, but where was all this outrage when the books were first published? The trilogy has been at the top of just about every recommended reading list for kids, and many for adults as well, for years now. It seems rather intellectually lazy to suddenly be upset about the themes of the story now that it will be in a visual medium instead of a written one.