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Summary: Amazing...
Review: After I read the first book, I knew I wouldn't be able to sit still until I had read them all. The story is amazing, and it seemed like every page I turned the story became more and more full of mystery but more and more wonderful too. After I finished the end of the last book, my heart felt like it was torn out, just from the incredibly heart-wrenching ending Pullman wrote. The worlds he created and the way he brings the characters together are simply amazing, and at the end he leaves you wishing that it wasn't over, and that you could keep on reading on forever.
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Summary: Harry Potter doesn't do justie!
Review: Harry Potter might satisfy you, but it is nothing compared to this. "His dark materials" is full of action and adventure, and while harry potter might seem like it covered both of those, it was not nearly as satisfing as these books. Harry Potter was a page turner, but this is a stay-up-all-nighter. These books have a much deeper story than Harrry Potter. These books are very creative, which is more itself than any harry Potter book. If you are looking for a magical fantisy book to satisfy your needs, get this!
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Summary: His dark Materials
Review: Lyra is amazing. to compete against pure evil and win in book 1 and win is an unmeasurable feat!
Will is also a person i admire(fiction or no fiction)
then to come together they a a force to be reconed with!
Excellent
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Summary: Amazing book
Review: I've never before read a book quite as good as this one.
I bought a three book in one type and just could't stop reading it.
Amazing storyline and has left a strong lasting impression on me 3 weeks on after finishing it.I recommened it to eeryone young or old, anyone and everyone will enjoy this book
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Summary: A classic trilogy
Review: In a magical world similar to our own, it begins when a young girl sneaks into a college study and hears things she oughtn't. It ends when a young woman vows to build the Republic of Heaven in her own world. Between is a surpassingly marvelous adventure, switching among universes with kaleidoscopic abandon and filled with such wonders as armored bears, a knife so sharp it can cut passageways between universes, and a mysterious golden dust that permeates all the universes. But with the wonders come horrors: eerie scavengers that can eat your very soul, a brutal regime that performs unspeakable experiments on children, a passage through the land of the dead, guarded by harpies. Pullman is both a master storyteller and a master stylist. These books read clearly and easily, and no matter how extraordinary what he's depicting is, it's clear. He begins simply enough, in an Oxford similar to our own, though everyone has a daemon - a sort of familiar - and there is magic in the air. The first concern is that children are mysteriously disappearing, though this leads to a trip to cold northern lands (where the children have been taken) and eventually to our own world. The stakes and scope continue to build until the conflict is between the forces of Heaven, who want to control the worlds, and those who would wish to go their own way. Pullman develops a unique, "magic humanist" (as contrasted with secular humanist) viewpoint, telling a gripping tale while making a statement for human reason and individuality versus authority. A classic trilogy.
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Summary: Breathtaking
Review: To express what I feel about this book series cannot be typed into words. His Dark Materials Trilogy appeared to me while browsing in my middle school's library for something romantic to read. I found The Subtle Knife, and my librarian suggested The Golden Compass to me, saying I should read it first. I did, and I found it to be the best book ever written. I cried at the end because it was so good. Then I read The Subtle Knife, and loved it, but had to wait for EIGHT MONTHS to read The Amber Spyglass! I just recently read it, and I cried so hard at the end that my cheeks literally stung. I absolutely INHALED the last book! You will never find any trilogy so full of lush characters, plot lines and deep-lying meanings to life. It is a fantasy realism, so real almost, my friends and I talk about daemons as if they were sitting on our shoulder or flying overhead. I never stop talking about His Dark Materials, and reccomend it to anyone who wants to read something finally that actually has meaning. I think that if anyone can cram that much amazing, rich storyline into only three books, he must have talent beyond imagination. The Harry Potter books are a wonderful series for the younger reader, and I read them in sixth grade absolutely obsessed with them, but His Dark Materials passes those books by a million times because of the depth and richness they possess all on their own without all of the publicity. It is a different kind of magic but guaranteed to please young adult and adult reader forever! And as Philip Pullman said, and my own writing mantra: "Read like a butterfly, write like a bee."
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Summary: Best Ever - Not just for kids
Review: This is the best fantasy series i have ever read, hands down. A follow-up to Harry Potter? THis series is far and away a better read, better written, and contains much better ideas about science and religion, and life. THis is a series for all ages.
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Summary: BEST BOOK EVER
Review: This book sports an excellent plot, that is good fo anyone 9 to 999!!! (^-^)
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Summary: So much better than Harry Potter
Review: The Dark Materials series is so much better than Harry Potter because it contains some reality in it and is more believable. There is a certain amount of Physics in it, telling you about the windows to other worlds and how they are formed also there is a lot of looks into religion and the heart of Christianity itself. The last book in the trilogy is based on 'Paradise Lost' and it re-tells the stories of angels. The two main characters are strong and different and are independent-not relying on their parents or anyone else but themselves.They have their daemons makes another story of friendship come up. The story is breathtaking and exciting all the way through, with interesting friendships and a tale of love that is so pure and white that even the snow in the north is darker than it. A very intriguing and inventive series and quite magickal, a very worthwhile read and very much better than Harry Potter...
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Summary: dark materials trilogy
Review: I feel like I've been mugged. Seriously, these books were a scandal, and they have caused me pain that I never want to feel again. I will admit that I wanted Will and Lyra to fall in love, but not 50 pages too soon. Such a struggle to read through... such agony... By the end of this saga, I didn't care. I had trouble remembering why I loved The Golden Compass. I have forgotten the mastery of The Subtle Knife. Indifference. pure horrible indifference. The worst pain of all!
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