I read the Amber Spyglass

I read the Amber Spyglass. I was going to put a quote, but I couldn’t find one that would work out of context, and I didn’t want to give anything away. The book changed me. I think. Maybe not really; maybe I’m just crazy. But this book made me feel so much emotion. So much, so much… Just read it, just read it… I’m not sure if this book made me cry. I was reading it late into last night, and after I put on my contact lenses (I wear corrective ones at night and not during the day {read: awesome}) my eyes were tearing, possibly because I didn’t wash them well or possibly because of the book. As I look back at the book, I don’t cry now, but I feel like I am going to. It doesn’t matter whether I have actually physically cried, because I know on the inside I have. I have and I am still doing so…

I’d say more, but I can’t give it away. The series (His Dark Materials - The Golden Compass, Subtle Knife, Amber Spyglass) isn’t all that anti-Christian as you might hear from the media. I truly hope they continue with the movies. Admittedly, the church is semi-evil in the story, but I think it doesn’t matter what you believe; anyone could be moved by this book.

I began reading the series three years ago, but I was young then. I got bored part way through the third book; thought it was too religious. But it really isn’t. It is a just a great story. All day my mind has been away, thinking about this book. Thinking.

I hope that this book has changed me, that I will be a better person. I want to help now; help the world and be selfless like they were. I can’t believe the choice they made. I can’t believe it. I don’t know if I would have decided similarly in the same place; I might have been selfish and cheated. I don’t know. I don’t know. But it makes me sad. I wish there had been another way. I wish, but of course there couldn’t have been. Philip Pullman is wise for it would not have been the same if there had been another way. But I still wish. I hope I haven’t given too much away and I hope you will read it.

More than ever.

I love - I hesitate to say you, but I love

Alec