I love Philip Pullman's work. I got pulled into his sphere late (the Amber Spyglass was released long before I even knew about it) but me being caught up on His Dark Materials by now, I've really developed an interest in him. To me, he is to fiction what Richard Dawkins is to non-fiction, a great writer from a growing pool of secular humanist thought in Britain, which is why I'm moved to buy Pullman's new book "The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ".
I read a preview/except of it the Guardian yesterday, and I was briefly enthralled by it. Basically, it's Pullman's retelling of the life of Jesus Christ, except in this book, the Virgin Mary had twins ("Jesus" and "Christ" respectively) and from the looks of things they couldn't be more different. I was immediately put in mind of Nietzsche's Master-Slave morality, his criticisms of Christianity's lionization of the weak, and now I can't wait to read it. I'll tell you what I think when I buy it. ^_^
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