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Summary: WONDROUS
Review: This wonderful novel, recommended to me by a friend, is transporting. The earth as you know it remains familiar, though Pullman's imaginative rendering of it distorts, changes and disorients you just enough to make it magically different. The story could hardly be more compelling, and stars a spunky small girl named Lyra. The intriguing concepts abound, including the fascinating concept of a human's daemons, creatures that shift form and mirror their owner's souls until adolesence, at which time they become one animal or another. But that concept is only one detail amidst thousands more. Like the wonderful JRR Tolkien books, and the Star Wars sagas, this book sets up with formidable plotting, planning and wonderfully appealing characters, and devious, horrifying villians, a masterful story that reads that a thriller -- you cannot put it down. If you are looking to be whisked away with a book that is intelligent, well-written and enormously entertaining -- sparking your own imagination -- get this book immediately. You will be aching for Part II, as I was, once you reach the last page.
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Summary: Excellent Book
Review: This is a great book, but isn't sugar-coated. Also some of the content isn't for younger readers. Lyra and Pantalaimon (her dæmon) discover the existence of a frightening new element that sparks horrible experiments on children. Thrust into her hands is the alethiometer that guides her on her quest in a mysterious, frightening way. To find out the conclusion to book one, you'll have to read this incredible book. If you're willing to think and have a lot of spare time on your hands, this is the book for you. You'll have a hard time putting it down!
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Summary: Absolutely Excellent!
Review: 100% everything you want. Wonderfully written, terrifyingly and chillingly swept in with mystery and amazement. I have read this book countless times and so to its sequel, The Subtle Knife. I wait in impatient desire for the last book in the series. An absolute must for any book-lovers collection. Buy this book or miss out on somthing truly special.
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Summary: Help, I Can't Get My Minde Off This Book!
Review: I loved this book it was the best. I'm not a huge fantisy reader but this is now my favorit book and I think I will read more fantisy. This book was so gooooooood I cant discribe it witout writing pages but I'll do my best. Lyra (the main charecter) is very adventrus and out going but at the same time she is also very caring. She also has a demond witch is something everyone has a demond is part of you they are an animal that reflects you and can change shapes when you are a kid. Together they go on a mission to save kids who are taken by the goobblers. They also try and finde out what the magical dust is and what it dose. This is a great fatisy book that will keep you on the edge of your seat until the very last page. Even if you are not a big fantisy fan BUY THIS BOOK, YOU WON'T REGRET IT.
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Summary: One of the best books in existence
Review: Philip Pullman weaves this exciting and in-depth story with amazing characters that will catch your heart. i could not put the book down! the spunky Lyra and her "sidekick" Pan's adventures are very very real, as is the world they exist in: a parallel dimension of our own. i keep wishing that i could exist in her place,and brave the artic and solve the mysterys of Dust! i dont know one person who did not enjoy this book. happy reading!
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Summary: Excelent story of an adventorous girl
Review: If you ever wanted to go to far away places and see marvelous things or ever wanted to go on an exciting adventure you should like this book. You will follow Lyra throug an adventure neither you or her will ever forget. You will watch Lyra go through an exciting plot full of twists, turns, treachury, and surprises. You will not be able to put this book or its sequal down and probably not the third installment to the trilogy either.
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Summary: Best book I have ever read
Review: This book is the best I have read -- it combines fantasy with our real world which gives us something to relate to and something to dream about. The book is written vividly, with emotion and style, and creates the strong desire to travel to Lyra's world. Everyone will love the protagonist and her sidekick as they meet the many adventures. You'll be searching for the next book, The Subtle Knife, immediately after finishing!
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Summary: A Book Destined For Fame
Review: Ok, I think this book was awesome! The characters were so real that you instantly could realate to them and predict them. It is a fantasy book mixed with science. If you liked this book, I would reccomend Tamora Pierce's books.
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Summary: Read this now!
Review: This is definitely the best young adult novel I have ever read. It engages your mind and gets you hooked against your will. It rushes along so quickly and smoothly, and then, it just stops. It's over. And you have to get the next book immediately or you might die. Amazing cliff hanger, that comes so unexpectedly, like a dam in the middle of a stream. By the way, this is one of the most amazing things I've ever read.
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Summary: One of the Best books I've ever read
Review: Extremely well written and presented. An extremely imaginative book that is easy to believe in. I highly recommend this book
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