Neil Gaiman’s Stardust, which I believe I’ve linked about at least once. Enchanted by the book, and excited by what I’ve seen of the movie so far.
Also, Pullman’s The Golden Compass, the first in the His Dark Materials trilogy which I enjoyed thoroughly, despite it being partly Pullman’s negative response to The Chronicles of Narnia (which he talks some about in this older article). This story is wildly imaginative, with such creatures as daemons being lifelong animal companions to people in an world alternate to ours. These daemons represent a person’s soul, in essence. There are witches, fantastic machines, and…well, they’re worth reading, whatever theological debates the books might be throwing folks into. The movie looks as gorgeous as anyone could envision.
If anyone read the book The Prestige, or saw the movie version of it as well, I’d rank these two movies up there with that one, or, potentially much higher, depending on how they turn out. The Prestige, I thought, was a chilling story into the unknown, with both the book and film having their virtues. We’ll see how Hollywood handles these other stories.
Also, we’re starting to get in some of the wedding photos from the photographers, so I’ll be posting a few on here in the next couple of days.
Any folks have Memorial Day weekend plans?
I see that smile.
Thought you might find this interesting:
http://seldomwrong.blogspot.com/2007/05/fed-judge-to-christians-states-dont-owe.html
Hmm. I had no idea CCU had even brought that suit against the state. The wife did, apparently, though she thought it was a bad idea from the get go. Thanks for pointing this out.