false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255584450m/312407.jpg 6066992 128 1536771 book 1995 The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, #1) total:79788|5:29565|4:25215|3:15685|2:5513|1:3811| 79788 310572 100551 5043 119322 0679879242 9780679879244 73963 4290 3.89 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255984764m/119322.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/119322.The_Golden_Compass 5 45 false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1996 Thu Jan 10 18:05:28 -0800 2008 Tue Nov 04 08:40:27 -0800 2008 "There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fiction; they can only be dealt with adequately in a children's book." His subsequent remarks about the importance of story, its centrality to bot...more...]]> 119322 0679879242 9780679879244 73963 4290 3.89 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255984764m/119322.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/119322.The_Golden_Compass 4 16 false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003 Thu Dec 13 13:37:54 -0800 2007 Thu Dec 13 14:58:06 -0800 2007 more...]]> 119322 0679879242 9780679879244 73963 4290 3.89 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255984764m/119322.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/119322.The_Golden_Compass 4 11 false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Nov 04 15:46:43 -0800 2007 Sun Nov 04 16:03:55 -0800 2007 The story in brief: The book is a fantasy novel set in a strangely familiar pseudo-Victorian/steampunk parallel Earth. The protagonist is a young ophaned girl who's been raised at Oxford by the attending scholars. The story concerns kidnapped children, hidden mysteries of the Church, wandering gyp...more...]]> 119322 0679879242 9780679879244 73963 4290 3.89 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255984764m/119322.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/119322.The_Golden_Compass 3 8 false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 15 03:23:29 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 21 13:29:00 -0800 2008 HDM)is one continuous story (well... see below), so I'm reviewing the whole set. It isn't useful to review one part alone.

HDM is a decent read with many great elements. On Orson Scott Card's "MICE" scale...more...]]> 119322 0679879242 9780679879244 73963 4290 3.89 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255984764m/119322.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/119322.The_Golden_Compass 3 8 false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Aug 24 22:00:29 -0700 2007 Tue Sep 18 19:48:22 -0700 2007 more...]]> 119322 0679879242 9780679879244 73963 4290 3.89 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255984764m/119322.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/119322.The_Golden_Compass 4 6 false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Feb 24 21:02:25 -0800 2008 Tue Mar 25 20:11:51 -0700 2008 By Philip Pullman
Alfred A. Knopf, 1995, 399 pp.,$20.00
IBN 978-0-679-87924-4

Unknown, unconsciousness, witchcraft, faith, destiny and betrayal-anyone want a ride? Philip Pullman’s The Golden Compass, the first book in his trilogy, His Black Materials,...more...]]> 312407 0440418321 9780440418320 830 114 3.89 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255584450m/312407.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/312407.The_Golden_Compass 0 8 false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Aug 11 09:02:27 -0700 2007 Fri Nov 23 17:09:19 -0800 2007 The Golden Compass, by Philip Pullman, picks up where the Harry Potter series leaves off. As in Rowling's series, the hero of The Golden Compass--Lyra, a pre-teen girl in Oxford, England--is plucked from her mundane existence to become supremely important to the fate of the living world.

...more...]]> 119322 0679879242 9780679879244 73963 4290 3.89 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255984764m/119322.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/119322.The_Golden_Compass 4 6 false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Jan 25 16:20:56 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 31 13:29:12 -0800 2008 more...]]> 119322 0679879242 9780679879244 73963 4290 3.89 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255984764m/119322.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/119322.The_Golden_Compass 3 7 false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Thu May 17 15:34:13 -0700 2007 Thu May 17 15:55:16 -0700 2007 His Dark Materials trilogy has acquired the reputation of being a sort of Narnia for Atheists. This reputation is, at least by the end of The Golden Compass, largely unearned. Though the religious beliefs depicted in Pullman's fantasy universe throw their real-world parallels into a...more...]]> 18115 0375838309 9780375838309 816 95 3.89 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18115.The_Golden_Compass 5 4 false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Nov 02 10:36:19 -0700 2007 Thu Mar 06 23:13:33 -0800 2008 more...]]> 119322 0679879242 9780679879244 73963 4290 3.89 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255984764m/119322.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/119322.The_Golden_Compass 5 5 false Tue Jun 10 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun May 25 09:15:33 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 24 10:32:55 -0700 2008
Incidentally, I'm working at a Catholic publishing house right now run by the Daughters of St. Paul. Here's what one of the s...more...]]> 119322 0679879242 9780679879244 73963 4290 3.89 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255984764m/119322.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/119322.The_Golden_Compass 5 3 false Fri Mar 07 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Mar 21 18:40:06 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 16 18:45:17 -0700 2008 Ballantine Books,1995, 351 pp., $6.99
Philip Pullman
ISBN 0-345-41335-0

...more...]]> 114280 0440238137 9780440238133 650 99 3.89 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255984759m/114280.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/114280.The_Golden_Compass 5 3 true Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Mar 12 12:12:03 -0700 2008 Wed Mar 12 12:12:50 -0700 2008 This book was amazing! I absolutely loved it so much that I went out and got the other two books in the series so that I could find out the rest of the story. While the number of pages and the font size looks daunting, the story is so compelling that I had a hard ti...more...]]> 119322 0679879242 9780679879244 73963 4290 3.89 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255984764m/119322.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/119322.The_Golden_Compass 5 3 false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Feb 18 07:26:56 -0800 2008 Sat Mar 22 07:12:25 -0700 2008 The Golden Compass Yearling, 2001,399 pp., $7.5
Philip Pullman ISBN 978-0-440-41832-0

Lyra, a teenage girl, trapped by a cunning woman, in a risky and heart-compulsive situation, faces the danger of losing her best friend to events beyond her control. Locked in a mortal battle wit...more...]]> 119322 0679879242 9780679879244 73963 4290 3.89 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255984764m/119322.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/119322.The_Golden_Compass 2 3 false Wed Jan 30 09:34:26 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 30 09:44:51 -0800 2008 more...]]> 119322 0679879242 9780679879244 73963 4290 3.89 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255984764m/119322.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/119322.The_Golden_Compass 3 5 false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Wed Dec 19 11:56:53 -0800 2007 Thu Dec 27 09:22:48 -0800 2007 more...]]> 114280 0440238137 9780440238133 650 99 3.89 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255984759m/114280.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/114280.The_Golden_Compass 4 3 false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Nov 25 07:40:53 -0800 2007 Thu Apr 10 06:24:56 -0700 2008 not a children's book at all. It doesn't really work on a child's level. I'm sure that my 11-year-old understood the story on only the most superficial level and that level is pretty good, but not great.

...more...]]> 119322 0679879242 9780679879244 73963 4290 3.89 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255984764m/119322.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/119322.The_Golden_Compass 4 3 false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Nov 15 10:41:53 -0800 2007 Thu Nov 15 10:58:42 -0800 2007 So I'm re-writing this, now that I'm on the final pages of the second book, The Subtle Knife. I stand by my original analysis of these books: I think they are much closer in relation to L'Engle (Theology and Science with a ...more...]]> 119322 0679879242 9780679879244 73963 4290 3.89 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255984764m/119322.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/119322.The_Golden_Compass 2 4 false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Oct 16 15:55:30 -0700 2007 Tue Jan 01 17:23:46 -0800 2008 more...]]> 119322 0679879242 9780679879244 73963 4290 3.89 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255984764m/119322.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/119322.The_Golden_Compass 1 3 false Thu Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Sat Jul 14 13:20:35 -0700 2007 Thu Oct 22 00:42:23 -0700 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=312407