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The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials #1)
By : by Philip Pullman
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Original Title : Northern Lights
ISBN : 0679879242 (ISBN13: 9780679879244)
Edition Language : English
Series : His Dark Materials #1
Hardcover, 399 pages
Published April 16th 1996 by Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers (first published July 9th 1995)
Characters : Lyra Belacqua, Pantalaimon, Lord Asriel, Iorek Byrnison, Iofur Raknison...more, Marisa Coulter, Lee Scoresby, Roger Parslow, Serafina Pekkala, Hester, Farder Coram, John Faa, Billy Costa...less
Setting : Oxford, England
Description : Lyra is rushing to the cold, far North, where witch clans and armored bears rule. North, where the Gobblers take the children they steal--including her friend Roger. North, where her fearsome uncle Asriel is trying to build a bridge to a parallel world.Can one small girl make a difference in such great and terrible endeavors? This is Lyra: a savage, a schemer, a liar, and Lyra is rushing to the cold, far North, where witch clans and armored bears rule. North, where the Gobblers take the children they steal--including her friend Roger. North, where her fearsome uncle Asriel is trying to build a bridge to a parallel world.Can one small girl make a difference in such great and terrible endeavors? This is Lyra: a savage, a schemer, a liar, and as fierce and true a champion as Roger or Asriel could want--but what Lyra doesn't know is that to help one of them will be to betray the other.
Literary Awards : Guardian Children's Fiction Prize (1996), Audie Award for Children's Titles (2000), Lincoln Award Nominee (2005), Carnegie Medal (1995)
REVIEWS :(B+) 78% | GoodNotes: A solid story and well written, but very much a children’s tale with one child going on a quest to save other children. This novel is an absolute work of pure genius, and is in my top ten reads of all time. Before I go into the depths of character and plot, let me start by saying this book is up there with other fantasy hard hitters: by this I mean books like The Lord of the Rings and The Chronicles of Narnia: the books that define the genre. This is high praise indeed, and this novel is worthy of it. The protagonist of the book is Lyra, a young girl, who is parentless and seemingly friendless. She has grown up I don’t love the Beatles.*Ducks as he is castigated by the seething masses*I also don’t love green vegetables, punches to the face, or going to the dentist, though I don’t think those revelatory disclosures will elicit much in the way of rage-fueled attempts to slit my throat with the jagged edge of a broken CD (compact disc, kiddos—look it up). So, why risk a severed jugular on the day before I’m going to stuff myself so full of turkey that I’ll have a snood coming out of my ear? Well, because Boy, this spiraled down quickly down the hole! I applaud you for revealing that you prefer the Boyz II Men version of Yesterday over the Beatles' rendition... because it allowed me to instantly 2.5*I never read this as a kid and maybe I would have enjoyed it more if I had, but it was just okay for me! the golden compass trilogy seems like a natural progression in christian literature. yes, it is christian literature, the same way the chronicles of narnia are. aslan is only a lion when the reader is about 10 or so in the united states. after a point, he unrepentantly becomes jesus. and the four children are like, the gospels or something. and the story is somewhat ruined then, because as an adult, you can't just shoehorn jesus into a lion outfit without snickering a little.pullman however, has This is such an interesting take on this book that I may have to attempt to read the dratted thing again, keeping this comparison in mind. Thanks for It's funny that I didn't notice this progression as a kid. I only noticed when the movies came out and there was such a controversy over it. I was i first read this when i was like 10 or 11 and i remember really liking it. i recently came across an online thread about this book/series and the message(s) the author was intending to convey, and i was taken aback. i honestly really didnt remember anything except for talking bears that wear armour. lol. after the reread, i am suprised that i read this as a child. this is definitely a ‘childrens book’ that is not meant for children, in my opinion. the deeper meanings are pretty subtle but, “You cannot change what you are, only what you do.” “So Lyra and her daemon turned away from the world they were born in, and looked toward the sun, and walked into the sky.” I enjoyed the premise and theme of the book. Pullman created well thought out and memorable characters. It was a little too technical for me in regard to the depths of fantasy, i.e. I had to go back and look up the meaning of some of the made up words in the book to stay focused on what was actually happening. But great imagery. I'm not sure if I will read book 2 or 3 of the series yet... thoughts? 9/8/17:1. I cleared my rating. If that doesn't sufficiently refute the claim that I "just wanted" to give THE GOLDEN COMPASS 1.0 star, then you're irrational, and further discussion is pointless. 2. I am a BOOK REVIEW BLOGGER. That's what I do. If you want to make cracks about being a trophy wife, go right ahead, but to insinuate that I would "skim" a book to have the minimum knowledge required to give the appearance of having read it so that I can give it a bad review b/c reasons, is an attack Rating: 3.5 starsListened to this on audio, which was a lot of fun!.
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