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Summary: Still the Best Even With A Different Title!
Review: My name is Derek Conrad, and I am 9 years old.
This was the best book I ever read. In Norway, the title of the book is Northern Lights. Lyra and her daemon, Pantalaimon, go on quests which are out of this world! They go to the north where Amoured Bears rule,witch clans fly in the night sky and things impossible happen. Another reason I liked the book is Svalbard is in Norway and I live there too. I can't wait until I read The Subtle Knife
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Summary: best book ever!!
Review: I am 10 years old and I loved this book! I thought that it was adventurous and breathtaking. The daemons were very interesting. Each time I opened the book I never wanted to put it down - I read it mostly on trains and planes. I recommended it to my friend Danielle and the minute she started reading it, she wouldn't play with me anymore. Now I'm reading the 2nd book and I think it's even better. If I had a daemon it would be an eagle
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Summary: A fabulous book in an enthralling series!!!
Review: This is a wonderful book, and when I finished, all my friends wanted to borrow it (and even my teachers)!! I loved this book. It was imaginative, fun, beautiful, heartbreaking, and elaborate. I recommend this book to anyone and everyone. I don't believe I could do it justice by writing a summary of it, so I'll leave it to you. Read this book, then sigh with delight, then read the next one, then be depressed because he just can't throw these out fast enough. Read it, I know you'll like it. ~Sunn
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Summary: This was truly stunning stroke of genius!
Review: This is truly a book worth reading. Lyra and her
friends, along with her daemon, weave together an
exciting tale unmatched by any other fantasy. I was happy to learn it was only book one. This is
a great book for fantasy lovers!
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Summary: I was left breathless!!!!!!
Review: Lord God Almighty! This is one MAGNIFICENT book!!!!
Read it! Read it! Read it!
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Summary: YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: Children's fantasy has never been this good!
True, names like L. Frank Baum and C.S. Lewis, both famous children's writers, have been honored throughout time among the greatest writer.
But this is a fresh fantasy writer, although a seasoned author. He has certainly introduced one of the best children's books of all time in 'The Golden Compass'.
And one of the greatest adult books, too.
The world of the spunky pre-teen Lyra is totally different from ours. People have daemons, animals that have a special link to humans, and physically can't move very far away from them without great pain. Lyra's own, named Pantalaimon, has just a little more common sense than his human attachment.
But then Lyra is whisked away from her childhood home at Jordan College, and in secret is given an aleithometer, a golden compass, a complex tool who's use Lyra at first can't fathom.
In the course of her journey, Lyra learns why children are being abducted and whisked to the Far North, and what the daemons have to do with this. She learns of horrible experiments, the schemeings of the Church, her previously unknown parentage, the secret of the Golden Compass and, most of all, the mysterious Dust...something all the adults in Lyra's life are mysteriously afraid of.
A great read--if you have not read this yet, you are missing out more than you can possibly imagine
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Summary: A pretty good book
Review: I am still reading it but so far it is really good. I am about half way done. I will write later when I have finished it
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Summary: Philip Pullman Captivates Me!
Review: "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman is a sure-to-be-classic novel. The main character, Lyra, accompanied by her daemon animal familiar, Pantalaimon, embarks on a journey which involves people called the Gobblers and a mysterious substance called Dust.
This novel kept me in suspense the whole time I was reading it. I only found out this book ever existed when I went to the library with a reading list I had had. I'm sure glad I had that list! I strongly recommend you buy this book! The hardcover edition would be best, so that it can be preserved and read by generations to come!
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Summary: Superb imagination and writing
Review: "The Golden Compass" is one of the most original and well-written fantasies I have read in a long time. Philip Pullman has created a 'parallel world' where the geography is the same as our own world but where civilization itself is quite different. The richness of his imagination is shown in the vitality of his world and the appeal of his characters. Since this is apparently the first of a trilogy, and since Pullman seems to have a definite idea of what will come, I anticipate the emergence of a great series. However the drawback of the book by itself was that the ending was over-hyped and rather shamelessly dramatized
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Summary: The story of Lyra Belacqua and her adventures...
Review: This heart-throbbing story 'The Golden Compass' by Phillip Pullman is truly sensational. It has everything from witches to armored bears to daemons, and for any reader it will thrill you to the core! A young girl named Lyra Belacqua obtains a symbol-reader from the master of Jordan College, that only her could learn to read without a book, and that is only the beginning! She travels to the North with a band of Gyptians, helps make an alliance with a clan of witches, and best of all, sees a city in the Aurora (Northern Lights) that is in another world altogether! I strongly suggest that if you haven't already, AT LEAST check this book out at your nearest library, and don't forget to look for this book's sequel 'The Subtle Knife' that is due to be released in August of '97. Happy reading
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