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Daughter of Smoke and Bone (August 2017)
By Mari · 15 posts · 44 views
By Mari · 15 posts · 44 views
last updated Aug 31, 2017 06:55AM
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[April 1, 2019] Third time reading this and this time for Snark Squad Book Club. You can see the steady increase of my feelings for and opinion of this series. All of the quibbles I had with it have vanished as this becomes more well loved and as I continue to see layers of the thing Pullman has weaved. It isn't perfect-- particularly in the way it characterizes Lyra at points and commentary it makes and curiosity, imagination and the "simplicity" of those who work service jobs.
The slow pace th ...more
Far, far better than the movie (duh) I actually enjoyed this more this time around than I did the first time I read it! I'm excited to keep on with the second and third book, as this one left off on such a good cliffhanger. And while I thought the conversation between Lee Scorsby and Serrafina Pekkala was a bit on the long (read:: boring) side, every other part of this book was so enthralling. I love the interplay between science and religion and mythology, and I think teasing out the other thre
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Apr 25, 2019
Karen
marked it as dnf-2016-onward
I've tried to read this a couple times. This time I'm dnf-ing at 17%. I don't know... I really want to read this series and like it but I just struggle with it. I have heard so many times that it's a slow start but for someone who barely ventures into fantasy, I just don't know if I'm going to ever get past the first half. I'd like to pick it up again someday but I'll shelve it as dnf for now because that feels the most honest.
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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.
I still think that, to ...more
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.
I still think that, to ...more
Aug 06, 2014
Nicole Sweeney
added it
I have talked about this book all over the internet, but the most comprehensive lives here: http://www.snarksquad.com/2019/04/snark-squad-pod-065-the-golden-compass-by-philip-pullman.html
May 2020:
I love this world and I love these characters. I picked up on some new things this time around that I had never really noticed before, thanks in part to the show. In particular – because I brought it up in our podcast episode about the show (view spoiler) ...more
May 2020:
I love this world and I love these characters. I picked up on some new things this time around that I had never really noticed before, thanks in part to the show. In particular – because I brought it up in our podcast episode about the show (view spoiler) ...more
There's something about Northern Lights that makes it just so compellingly readable. The mix of familiar and unfamiliar marks it somewhere between adventure and fantasy but the world-building Pullman does in the opening chapters is so rich and real that it's hard not to imagine Jordan College existing except for in this trilogy.
I read this when I was younger and quite possibly did not appreciate half as much as I did on this re-read. This time round I particularly loved the way the book conside ...more
I read this when I was younger and quite possibly did not appreciate half as much as I did on this re-read. This time round I particularly loved the way the book conside ...more
Forever favorite. I might have reread thoughts later but probably I will forget.
Another Meh.
Narnia, LOTR derivative nonsense.
So many other, better fantasy epics for the young reader.
Very twee.
Narnia, LOTR derivative nonsense.
So many other, better fantasy epics for the young reader.
Very twee.
Using a different edition for re-read.
Dec 02, 2012
Charlie
marked it as to-read
Dec 11, 2016
Chantal
marked it as to-read
