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Paradise Lost
by John Milton
Nearly had a stroke reading this because of all the inspiration Philip Pullman pulled from it. I'd just be reading and then it would say stuff like "His dark materials" and my blood pressure would rise by like 35 kilowatts.
If you manage to look past the fact that Milton clearly believed in the hierarchy of being, this is quite enjoyable.
His poetry is beautiful and, though the story is old, this ~is~ the old story.
If you like "The Golden Compass" or "Good Omens" a lot of the idea come from Milton's "Paradise Lost," which means that it has a lot of things that are later referenced.
(I also haven't read books 11&12 because my lad C.S. Lewis, who wrote an amazing intro to "Paradise Lost" that also somehow made me question the nature of humanity, said that those books were not only unoriginal, but bad poetry...)
If you manage to look past the fact that Milton clearly believed in the hierarchy of being, this is quite enjoyable.
His poetry is beautiful and, though the story is old, this ~is~ the old story.
If you like "The Golden Compass" or "Good Omens" a lot of the idea come from Milton's "Paradise Lost," which means that it has a lot of things that are later referenced.
(I also haven't read books 11&12 because my lad C.S. Lewis, who wrote an amazing intro to "Paradise Lost" that also somehow made me question the nature of humanity, said that those books were not only unoriginal, but bad poetry...)