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I have just read the Time magazine piece that prompted Terry Pratchett's reaction. And if JK Rowling really said the things she's quoted as saying.... my opinion of her just dropped.
In particular, "There comes a point where Susan, who was the older girl, is lost to Narnia because she becomes interested in lipstick. She's become irreligious basically because she found sex," Rowling says. "I have a big problem with that."
No, JK. You didn't really read The Last Battle that closely, did you? Susan was not lost to Narnia because she becomes interested in lipstick. She was lost to Narnia because she choose to turn her back on Narnia, and refute her own experience. The fact that all she wants to talk about boys and lipstick all the time shows her infatuation with the worldly and superficial. There is nothing to say that she could not have loved lipstick and still believed in Narnia.
I do.
In particular, "There comes a point where Susan, who was the older girl, is lost to Narnia because she becomes interested in lipstick. She's become irreligious basically because she found sex," Rowling says. "I have a big problem with that."
No, JK. You didn't really read The Last Battle that closely, did you? Susan was not lost to Narnia because she becomes interested in lipstick. She was lost to Narnia because she choose to turn her back on Narnia, and refute her own experience. The fact that all she wants to talk about boys and lipstick all the time shows her infatuation with the worldly and superficial. There is nothing to say that she could not have loved lipstick and still believed in Narnia.
I do.