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Previously read December 2003
Finished The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman last night. As I said in a previous post - a very complex and richly written world. I'm not (yet) getting the anti-religion vibe others have mentioned about Pullman's work - maybe that shows up more in the sequels. I do enjoy the alternate-universe aspects - and the panzerbjorns (don't know how to do the Nordic O here) are WAY cool! I've started the second book in the series The Subtle Knife - which for some reason is vag ...more
Finished The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman last night. As I said in a previous post - a very complex and richly written world. I'm not (yet) getting the anti-religion vibe others have mentioned about Pullman's work - maybe that shows up more in the sequels. I do enjoy the alternate-universe aspects - and the panzerbjorns (don't know how to do the Nordic O here) are WAY cool! I've started the second book in the series The Subtle Knife - which for some reason is vag ...more
Riveting, but disturbing.
I expected to like it a lot more than I did. I thought the author was very condescending, not only to the characters but the reader as well. There was a random skip to a different POV and a completely random and unnecessary change to omniscient third person. I also wasn't happy about how some of the basic information about the world wasn't explained until halfway through the book. It was okay, and I'll probably read the other books eventually but they aren't high on my list.
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For some reason I swear I had read this before, but if I did, I have completely blanked. My dad gave it to me when it first came out, and I own the whole series, but have not read them! I started it last night, and went to bed far later than I like to, I could not put the book down. This is why I have resorted to reading in the morning on the weekends, I get little sleep and am not awake for my students if I read at night!!!!
Whoa! This book is fascinating and I have to read the next two - I'm hooked! I love the idea of humans having animal representations of their souls, constant companions that mirror their emotions and personality (a bird or dolphin when happy, a leopard when threatened, etc.). And another world in the aurora ????
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I enjoyed this book. I read it about four-five years ago before the hype about the movie. I'd actually like to reread them because the plot is now fuzzy. I do remember I didn't think it was as readable as Harry Potter but the ideas behind the story was complex.
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Jan 21, 2009
Jamie Collins
marked it as own-unread-unlikely
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young-adult
May 17, 2011
Ranee
added it
