I lost interest in the Pullman trilogy after the first book; I'm not much of a believer and have no problem in principle with somebody writing a trilogy that's anti-religion. But the first book's subtleties and depth just seem to dissipate in the second, and I've not even cracked into the third.

I read the critique of Pullman's Lewis critique yesterday and thought it was pretty much dead-on. OTOH, I read a rather interesting article a couple of weeks ago talking about how the Narnia books were more Mithraic than Christian, and I thought that raised some strong points too.