I started reading this series in 1997 and made it through the second book before I just stopped cold. I don't know why. I remember finding the stories intriguing, though not as much as the critics and superfans seemed to find them, enough so that when it came time to finish off this series, I hadn...
I was surprised how much I enjoyed this book. The mythology is imaginative, well realized, and uses some really great iconography. The animal daemons are a great conceit, and I love the imagery of Dust. The individual characters are well filled out, as are the larger nations/cultures. At times the e...
Really slow in the beginning. The story didn't really pick up until Part Two. There was a lot of world-setup in Part One, but it didn't fully describe what was going on and made the text kind of confusing (the presense of daemons and why they are there). But once Part Two began, I was hooked. There ...
My first Philip Pullman, and probably my last. When I read a book I don't like, I usually figure it's just not for me, and I have different tastes, blah, blah, and move on. Not this time. The novel "deserves" a few notes. Philip Pullman has awfully combined two of the greatest conundrums of mod...
I can't count the number of times I've listened to (never read) this book in the past several years. I highly recommend the audio version, which is performed by the author and a full cast. I cannot praise the whole trilogy too highly. What it seems to me that Pullman is doing, essentially, is creati...
I've been meaning to re-read this series for a while now, partly because I read Paradise Lost recently and feel like that might add a whole new dimension to it...and partly because I don't think I really appreciated it the first time around...and partly because DAEMONS. So Northern Lights follows ...
So as some of you may know i actually saw the movie way before i read this, Im actually really vague on what happened in the movie... i recall the bear and lyra, and the Daemon, Pan. the cutting... though im pretty sure the Daemons died instantly their, rather than staying alive if not ghost like? <...
I read this one as a group read for the month of January 2014. We had many varied views about this book, and a recurring notion was that Lyra's development as a character was lacking. I disagree with this. I find that Pullman did a good job in conveying her emotions and thoughts throughout the book,...
There's something so very magical about the His Dark Materials trilogy, something deeply connected to memories of childhood, and something very... British. What is it that makes the worlds created by British authors so very... epic? Young Lyra is a feisty orphan, ward of Oxford's Jordan College, in ...
There's something so very magical about the His Dark Materials trilogy, something deeply connected to memories of childhood, and something very... British. What is it that makes the worlds created by British authors so very... epic? Young Lyra is a feisty orphan, ward of Oxford's Jordan College, in ...
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