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KatiEllenReads
KatiEllenReads rated it 5 years ago
“So Lyra and her daemon turned away from the world they were born in, and looked toward the sun, and walked into the sky.” Reading this for the first time as an adult this book is wonderful, the lead character Lyra may be a child but the writing is not dumbed down for children. And I love when aut...
Abandoned by Booklikes
Abandoned by Booklikes rated it 5 years ago
No. Just a thousand times no. This was long, boring, and there's a really weird set-up with two characters that I would rather Pullman just leave the hell alone. This dragged. Badly. I didn't like Lyra and I didn't like Pan. I just felt like this was filler and it ended on a weird note. No. Al...
drallapaul
drallapaul rated it 5 years ago
Phillip Pullman takes us further on Lyra’s journey, this time as a young woman, leaving Oxford to embark on a long purposeful trip, meeting a host of different characters along the way, both friendly and hostile. Meanwhile political machinations are underway. The writing is engaging and very litera...
Kaethe
Kaethe rated it 5 years ago
More books should be published in small editions with illustrations. Lyra is a bit much in The Golden Compass; Will was my favorite character in that series. But over the years she's really grown on me. This is just a short visit to check up on her well after the events of His Dark Materials are...
A Man With An Agenda
A Man With An Agenda rated it 5 years ago
Once again, amazing. Lyra Silvertongue is 20 years old and attending St. Sophia's college in Oxford. All is not well. She and Pantalaimon are fighting and can barely speak to each other. Lyra has become enamored with a popular novel and a book of philosophy that disdain the mystic, the mythic and ev...
An Un-Calibrated Centrifuge
An Un-Calibrated Centrifuge rated it 6 years ago
When I'm not reading HDM, sometimes I'll wonder if these little companion books are necessary. And then I reread HDM, find myself desperate for more of Lyra and her world and decide, yes, they absolutely are. Now give us the green book already, Philip Pullman.
Musings/Träumereien/Devaneios
Musings/Träumereien/Devaneios rated it 6 years ago
A few pointers:Some of the examples are typical: first it's Mary as having the child by a village lad (*fnarr fnarr*), so none of that god stuff, so Jesus is not the son of god so Redemption and Salvation have no meaning, he's just a bloke. ...hmmm do I see the very basis of Christianity being attac...
Portable Magic
Portable Magic rated it 7 years ago
Absolutely worth putting all my other books on "pause" for. This was as much fun as The Golden Compass, and without all the complicated nature-of-the-universe plot machinations of the other books in that trilogy. There is plenty of action and peril to propel the story along, and the two new main cha...
drallapaul
drallapaul rated it 7 years ago
This first prequel to the Dark Materials trilogy is a joy to read. It sets up a lot of what transpires in the successful trilogy regarding Lyra, a newborn baby in this book. Introducing Malcolm and Alice as well as many other important characters, the book tells us about various agencies trying to t...
Wortmagieblog
Wortmagieblog rated it 7 years ago
„His Dark Materials“ von Philip Pullman ist einer der Kinderbuchklassiker unserer Zeit. Die Trilogie gewann zahlreiche bedeutende Preise, wurde für Film, Fernsehen und die Bühne adaptiert und erzielte in den USA ähnliche Verkaufszahlen wie „Harry Potter“. Die drei Bände „Northern Lights“, „The Subtl...
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