The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, Book 1)

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Summary: I was sad when it ended, but looked forward to book 2&3!
Review: Lyra faces danger and exitement in her story. She lives in Oxford with her "uncle" Lord Asreil, who is actually her father. She spies on her father in a room where important people discuss secret things. She learns of another world when her so-called father shows pitures of his journey north, where the other world is. She later meets a woman who is named Mrs.coulter who is actually her mother. Mrs. Coulter is nice to Lyra for her to like her, but inside, she is a creul woman, and is the wife of Lord Asriel. Who Lyra later finds out that he is her father. The master of Jordan College gives her a gadget calles the alethiometer, which looks like agolden compass. The alethiometer can answer any questiom that Lyra has and she uses it throughout the book. Mrs. Coulter later takes Lyra away. Lyra soon learns how to use the alethiometer and finds out that Mrs. Coulter does harm to little children, but doesn't know what it is that she's doing. So now Lyra runs away and starts her adventure. This was a great book that I really enjoyed. Every word my eyes ate, made me even more hungry for more exitement. ~Relm, 12 years old

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Summary: i was sad when it ended, but looked forward to book 2 & 3
Review: Every word I read wasn't enough to feed my hunger for the exitement inside of me. It's so good that it would make you feel like your watching a great movie. I really recommend this to you if you love fantasy and action packed books!

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Summary: Best Book
Review: This is one of the best books I have ever read. It is VEEERRRRYYYY hard to put down. I think that it should have been combined with book 2 though. The storyline is engaging and the characters great. His work is the best!

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Summary: This is a fantasic book
Review: What a wonderful book. I didn't think I would like it at firstse I had to read it for school. My english teacher recomended it to me. Thank you, Mr. B! The charcters are wonderful, and Phillp Pullman is a writing genius. Be careful though, you won't be able to put it down.

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Summary: After I started I couldn't put it down!!!!!!!
Review: I loved how Lyra was so curious. I think that the way the author set the story up was great. There was always something happening. The squence of events laid out the story in a way that kept you interested for a long time so you didn't want to put it down. I already want to read the sequel!!

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Summary: The best book on earth!!!!!
Review: This is the best book that I have ever read. Fantasy, fiction, adventure, and an epic tale all combined in this fantsy world where Lyra fights to save children from horrible experiments. I loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooove this book. It is my favorite book of all time and anybody who did not give ita ten is just plain stupid (although their entitled to their opinion, however wrong it may be)If Philip Pullman ever reads this, I want him to know that I am his biggest fan and I am waiting expectantly for his third book. I just can't stand the suspense. rating: 9999999999999999999999999999999999

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Summary: Haunting, magnificent, superlative!
Review: This book will be captivating readers for generations to come. I've read it two or three times now, and expect to read it many more. The sequel more than lives up to expectations: now we have to wait and bite our fingernails until the third and final book arrives.

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Summary: Ilove this BOOK!!!!!!!!
Review: Although I found it under an other title (which was a tape version it was a Hard back )I loved this book I think some children might find it hard I'm 11 and I found it enthralling it was great.

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Summary: A real must for all SF & Fantasy fans
Review: Tight plotting, incredible visual imagery, really fascinating characters: this one is a winner from the very beggining. Daemons, armored bears, baloons, witches, evil mothers, gyptians, weird philosophical machinery, what more could you ask for? I couldn't put it down until the very end. If you were wondering where the wonder went after Tolkien and CS Lewis, this one is the answer. Just buy it!!

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Summary: A good book
Review: This was an astounding book. It supplemented just enough suspense and action. Lyra's world is very strange and pretty cool. I liked Iorek Byrnison, the armored bear, the best. What a character! I've already read the Subtle Knife -- but I think this one was better. Can't wait for the last one to come out.