My Daemon

Mike and I watched Golden Compass on Friday night. We were both trying our best to finish the book before we watched the movie but alas, we ran out of time. We read enough, however, to know that the movie does speed up the plot and as a result, kind of misses out on some of the emotion/relationship between the characters but given the depth of the book and the time alloted to the movie, they still did very well and it was a fantastic movie. There’s a great deal of controversy over this book/movie right now given it’s apparent “anti-religious”, “anti-Christian” themes and the proclaimed atheism of the author, Phillip Pullman, however, that warrants a long discussion that we can save for another time (when I actually have more time). It’s actually a trilogy and the real controversy doesn’t apparently appear until the third book when there’s something about the characters killing God. Obviously, I’d like to finish the books before commenting but all I can tell you is that so far the book is fantastic and the movie was a really wonderful watch. The little girl who played Lyra was great.

For now, here’s my daemon. If you haven’t read the book and need an explanation of what a daemon is go here and click on daemon. Really neat concept.

I guess a lion fits. I’m also a Leo, born in July. But the whole modest but proud seems a little contradictory but maybe that’s the point.