The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, #1) in Overdue Podcast

Sep 03, 2009 Olivia rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: childhood-or-old-favorites, favorites, read-again-and-again, nostalgia-fest, got-lost-in-the-world, middle-grade, fantasy, also-saw-the-movie, audiobook

Third reread: December 2015

This time I enjoyed it more than the first two times I read it. The first, I was 11 and it didn't become a favorite until I fell in love with the other two books in the series, and the second read (less than a year later) was mostly so I could reread those other two books (and then I didn't get to reread the third for other reasons). I always saw it as this slow buildup to the action-packed, broader-scoped The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass.

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Jul 03, 2013 Kristi rated it really liked it

Shelves: young-adult, fantasy

In general I really liked this book. This is one of the best books of fantasy that I've read. Here are the qualifiers:

1. After the fight with the armored bears and Lyra meets up with Lord Asriel, it gets really boring really quick and I became completely uninterested in the story. The rest of the book is just creating a new problem (instead of resolving anything) in order to create the need for book two. I hate that.

2. Even though I really liked 6/7ths of the book, I don't feel excited or the ne ...more

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Apr 25, 2015 Florencia rated it really liked it

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