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Originally Posted by Fordim Hedgethistle
Pullman's an over-rated and pretensious middlebrow who likes to insult better writers in order to appear as though he has something profound to say.
Camille Paglia has made a career of such twattle, and she's more entertaining.
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If only he could do a Thomas Pynchon and keep himself locked away and quiet.
HDM is, and I'll say it again, an amazing series of books, even if it does go astray at the end of the final volume. Why on earth he does what he does only he can say, and even then he does not explain or justify it very well. It's telling that the writers of Doctor Who took up a similar theme in the last series and then created the kind of ending that Pullman could/should have done.
Sadly its a common thing in modern fiction, the cruddy ending. I've got a lot of books I loved until I read the endings whihc were clumsy or drawn out or just plain anticlimaxes. A bit ironic really, considering the ill-judged criticism sometimes aimed at Tolkien that LotR was over long.