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Summary: Best series ever!
Review: wonderful book! This is one of the best series that I have ever read. I have just one thing to say to those uncertain readers. You have to finish the series to really appreciate it. It has many depths, and something for everyone. it takes all the morals of every other book that you'll ever read, and rolls it into one exciting story about a young girl growing up. I recently took the last in the series out of the library, and I didn't want to return it! It has been about 2 or 3 weeks since I finished it, and I think about it all the time. The ending was touching, and it will never leave me. It is truly a work of literary art.
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Summary: The Golden Compass: Can't go wrong
Review: The Novel the Golden Compass by Philip Pullman is a great book for teens because it is challenging to read, but not incredibly difficult. When I first began to read it, I was confused by some dialogue, but soon became accustomed to the confusing phrases. Its a great book that I would highly recommend for older and younger readers alike.
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Summary: Philip Pullman is a phenomenal writer!!
Review: I first read Philip Pullman when I was in the eighth grade, with "The Ruby in the Smoke," and I was blown away. My English teacher that year immediately recommended "The Golden Compass," and so I bought it. However, my reading-obsession-spell was drying up for a while so it sat on the shelf until three days ago. I am now a senior in high school and I read this 351-page book in a remarkable three days!! I couldn't put it down. Pullman's creativity is astounding, and his ideas of daemons and panserbjorne, among many other things, kept my head in the clouds of Lyra's world even when I was not reading. I definitely recommend this book (and all the others written by Philip Pullman or even having anything to do with Philip Pullman!!) to anyone who has half an imaginative braincell and with or without a love of reading! (If you don't already love reading, try your hand at this and I almost guarantee you will!)
God bless you all and happy reading!
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Summary: Oh... my... God...
Review: A friend of mine recommended me this book, saying it was the best book ever written. I was skeptic, since he's kinda crazy, and gets all worked up whenever he reads something half-decent quality-wise. But I bought this book anyway. And I loved it. The characters are great (although some of them are really obscure and weird) the story is amazingly original. I gotta hand it to Pullman, I would've never come up with such an original story.The setting kinda reminds me of a early 1900's steampunkish world, but it's so different from ours, it would be hard to classify it correctly. Undoubtably one of the best books I've ever read, if not THE best. I can't wait to get my hands on the sequel...
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Summary: Incredibly involving
Review: This is really a review of the entire trilogy rather than this specific book - it's excellent. Pullman conjours up rich, interesting and believable (within the confines of the fantasy world). What I mean is that the worlds work, and you can believe they might exist. As a Christian, I found some of the material a little uncomfortable, but as the ideas are interesting and ( if you read on) he isnt actually anti - God (kind of). but the story is gripping, the descriptions excellent, the ideas and philosophy interesting and the charachters believable. What more do you want?
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Summary: Northern Lights (The Golden Compass)
Review: I've read this book twice--no, not because I was blown away by it the first time that I had to read it again, but because the first time I read it I lost interest close to the end. Don't get me wrong, Pullman is a talented writer. The sentences are filled with wonderful vocabulary, and it is easy to tell that the book was well thought out, well imagened. I liked many of the ideas, although there are some parts where the writing gets a little bit flat and although there is action, they become uninteresting. Lyra is caught up in something beyond her control, and when her friend is captured, she goes to the North with the gyptians in search of him. She is a spunky girl with a contagious, youthful personality. I thought that the book was interesting, although there are some cliche plot twists, and that anyone who likes fantasy would like this book. 4 stars for a great book!
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Summary: EVERYONE MUST READ THS BOOK!!!!!
Review: I LOVE!!!!!!! these books. There's no good way to really describe them. They're amazing. Everything is so well thought out, and they're just so good. Reading them is so great. There's only one bad thing about this trilogy. There's only three of them. I wish there were more, so I re-read them all the time. And they only get better. They're some of the only books that have evr made me cry. The charactors are so real. They're not predictable, and everything that happense to them leaves an impact on you. I was so excited when the third one finnally came out, but it was definatly worth the wait. I would give this trilogy a billion stars if I could. There is nothing that could be improved. They're absoulutly perfect.
P.S. I want to see my daemon.
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Summary: Wonder Story of andventure and fantasy
Review: To the person reading this review; let me ask you a question. Do you enjoy a good story, a story filled with high adventure, amazing characters, intricate plots and subplots, a premise that will knock you socks off, a story that makes you think as well as going far beyond in terms of keeping you turning page after page in anticipation of what is going to happen next? This book is for you. A beautifully laid out story laced with emotion. I can't wait to read the other books in the series. This one, by the way, is the first.
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Summary: AMAZING!!
Review: I LOVE THIS BOOK!!!! It's so well thought out and reaserched, but you don't read it that way. Everything is so perfect, it amazes me every time I read it. I would reccomend this book to anyone of any age. It's wonderful.
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Summary: Good Story Ruined by Misogynist Mindset
Review: OK, you say, what kind of Misogynist has a female for a main character? A clever one. This is a very engaging story that I would have said was on par with Tolkein or C.S. Lewis except that I had to cringe about every other chapter when Mr. Pullman would make a degrading remark about women. Before you think that I am yet another oversensitive, politically correct, feminazi; let me say that I have never written a book review or editorial before in my life. I also believe in supporting men's rights equally with women's, we can't have it both ways. This book, however, seemed to me to be so blatantly negative, covered up by the clever ruse of making the main character female, that I felt I had to express my distaste in a public forum. Some of these negative messages include the author's statments and depictions that only men could be proper scholars and that women who tried to be scholars were either social misfits or evil schemers. Another was that the Gyption women could not be brought on perilous journeys even though children could. The only positive female characters in this book in fact are a mother figure(read: proper place for women), a witch (read beautiful, forever young and the lover of one of the male characters) and the main character. And let's look at what kind of girl this character is. First, she is not a woman; she is clearly pre-pubescent. She is a tomboy who associates exclusively with other boys and men, and she is raised exclusively by men (read: without the taint of woman) The only exception to this is her early life, which she cannot remember, spent with a wet nurse and at a convent (read: during the diaper and toilet training stages). In other words, when you take into account all of the other female characters in the book, a boy in girl's clothing. With all of the negative statements and depictions of women in this book, I think the writer figured he would have to make his main character a female in order to not have every woman castigating him from sea to shining sea. One has to wonder if Mr. Pullman was going through a bad divorce when he wrote this book. All in all, this is not a book I would let my daughters or nieces read.
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