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Summary: hhhhhhhhhmmmmmmmmmmmm
Review: I actually haven't finsished the book yet, but cause of all da uda reveiws, use guys had ritten, i guess its an ok book. and hey! i had a test on it and i got a B+, even thou i still havnt finishshed it yet. Luv use alls. Caio, caio! Luv Aphrodite!
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Summary: An intriguing read
Review: This was an intriguing read.
I enjoyed the corpulent part of it, but there were some parts of the story that i found quite tedious.
Lyra was quite an exciting character. I enjoyed her adventures and the things she discovered. I was really sad about the ending, however. It was too abrupt and rushed. You needed more time to comprehend what happened between Lord Asriel and Mrs. Coulter.
My favourite character was Pantalaimon, i would love to have a daemon to help me out in life. Everything would be so much easier.
It is a good read for all teenagers, and the series is even better.
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Summary: Some find this a fantasic read but I think it rather slow!
Review: Northern Lights is quite well written however the reader is lost in a weak begining which begins in the action. I don't really like this book. This essay was written in the classroom. In Northern Lights, by Philip Pullman, readers meet for the first time 11-year-old Lyra Belacqua, a precocious orphan growing up within the precincts of Jordan College in Oxford, England. It quickly becomes clear that Lyra's Oxford is not precisely like our own - nor is her world. In Lyra's world, everyone has a personal dæmon, a lifelong animal familiar. This is a world in which science, theology and magic are closely entwined. Northern Lights is set in a world that parallels ours in many ways, yet very different. In this world lives Lyra, a girl left to be raised amongst the staff and scholars of Jordan College in Oxford, a sprawling mass of gothic buildings, great halls, subterranean passages and secret crypts. Pg 47 'Ancient stone arches rose above them supported by pillars as thick as ten trees...' What makes Lyra and her kind different and alien to us is that she carries with her a lifelong companion. The companion is the person's daemon, something like a human soul but instead of being unseen it is alive and vibrant, sharing and responding to moods and feelings. Pg 16 "... and Lyra felt the force of his glance almost as if it had physical form, as if it were an arrow or a spear." As a child, Lyra's dæmon Pantalaimon still has not settled to one constant form, and so he changes to suit her mood, desire or situation. Pg 73 "...though Patalaimon wouldn't settle...when he became a hedgehog out of pique.' As she grows up, Lyra's true personality will become apparent, and it is only at this point that Pantalaimon will take on his true form in reflection of this development. The study of science, theology and magic are very important to these people. The church still holds much of the power, dictating what is and what is not a valid course of scientific study. In doing so, boards are set up to perform scientific research. People who get in the way of the church will be prosecuted. The level of scientific knowledge is similar to ours but more advanced in the spiritual/magical realm. Overall this book was ok- good enough to read the triology.
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Summary: An exiting and suspense-filled read!
Review: This book is a complex and gripping epic that will undoubtedly become a classic! Its exicting and absolutely 'can't-put-down'
As the book progresses you want to know more, and you become entranced by the plot and its mysteries. It has a slow start though, so dont be discouraged but keep it up.
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Summary: Suspensful and intense, an excellent read.,
Review: Northern Lights is a complex book which i reccomend for age groups 13 and onwards. If you enjoyed books like Harry Potter this is your scene, but be prepared for this challenging and suspensful book. Don't be dettured from this excellent read becuase of the beginging, dull, relitively uneventful and complecated it will eventually make sense. The book is based around a girl aged 12 called Lyra. A rebellious stubbern and (in her own way) intelligent girl she developes emmotionally and her character is throroughly explored through this book. Northern Lights will oddly enlighten you and will leave you with a sense of completion and hope. If you only read one book a year, make it Norther Lights.
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Summary: oMg LyKe DiZ b dA oReSuM Bo0kErZ!!!! y0!!!!!!!111
Review: LyKe I tUrTaLLy LuV DiS b0oK! yO!!! LyRa B dA WiCkEd GaL!!!!!1 i LyKe WaNt MaH oWn DeMoN-tHiNGiE!!! tHo i LyKe tInK dAt aL da WeRrDz r 2 hArD iN sUm pLaCez!!!!!!!!!111 So0o0o0o LuV yAz aLL xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo
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Summary: Northern Lights
Review: This book started slowly. I found the start so boring that i nearly put it down, but luckily i kept going. Once the story really starts the exitement begins and you find yourself captured inside the secrets and terrors of Pullmans imagination. dont do what i nearly did and put the book down! you will regret it if you do. Not neccasarily a book for harry potter fans and lord of the rings fans. A fantasy that has many links to our world. The end is a bit rushed and dissapointing, maybe to make people read the second. it worked for me and now im reading the third. a great book
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Summary: The Best
Review: Adult fans of young-adult fiction have had something of a Garden of Eden lately, with such wonderful novels as the Harry Potter series, Artemis Fowl etc. crossing the line between the genres of young adult and adult. Somewhat less well-known (and, in my opinion, more deserving of credit and praise than either Harry or Artemis) is this series of books by hitherto-unknown Philip Pullman - the 'His Dark Materials Trilogy', the first book of which is this, 'The Northern Lights'. To synopsise: Lyra is a strange orphan girl living in a version of London not-unlike our own. She accidentally uncovers a plot to rid people of their Daemons (spirit-like creatures that accompany everyone everywhere, like an extension of one's soul) and sets out to rescue her friends from the clutches of a sinister church-based organisation. Along the way she makes some unusual friends and discovers that her ultimate goal will take her far beyond the reaches of her own world. What I can't praise enough about this book is the imagination and originality with which it is written. A comparable revalation in terms of ingenuity would have been the original release of the JRR Tolkien novels. However, unlike Tolkien, Pullman has imbued his characters and worlds with such a lack of pretension and sense of dry wit that we can't help but become totally enthralled by the events that shape their lives. For the first fifty pages you won't understand what's happening, so different is Lyra's world from our own - but then all becomes much, much clearer, and quite unapologetically, Pullman uses insanely clever puns and vivid imaginative descriptions to force us to draw our own conclusions about the strange world occupying this book. His characters are wonderfully-realised. Lyra is a tough, spare little thing, but the clever inclusion of Daemons is Pullman's unique way of illustrating her humanity and little-girlness to us. Mrs. Coulter is menacing and terribly cold, the Gyptians are a beautifully-concieved and su[erbly-executed race of people. It's impossible to touch on each amazing character, suffice it to say that Pullman's imagination is given free reign, tempered with his uncanny knack to edit his own ramblings into something convincing and captivating. The first in a trilogy of books, I can only advise you to buy all three together, as each one finishes rather abruptly, leaving you gasping for more. You won't be able to escape Pullman's imagination, and more importantly, you won't want to. 'Harry Potter' is the paste-jewelry, 'Northern Lights' is the Hope Diamond. I can't recommend this highly enough.
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Summary: Highly imaginative and provocative
Review: Pullman's novel tells the story of Lyra who lives in a world that is not as technologicall advanced as ours where witches, armoured bears and Daemons live. The Daemons are connected with every human in this world and they reflect their human's feelings and dissappear when their human dies. Pullman begins with Lyra spying on the Master of Jordan College, where she lives, and seeing how he plans to poison her uncle, Lord Asriel. She saves her uncle's life and then gets caught up in a large, complex plot against the Church and in turn against God. Pullman does not directly imply if he is an atheist, but challenges the Church in this alternate world, which is much more powerful than in ours. Pullman breaks away from the stereotype quest with a clear goal to accomplish. He continually has characers discussing Lyra and how she is the prophesised one, but sheds no real light as to what she must do, only that she must not know that she is doing it and in the end save the world. There is no clear 'Bad Guy' either merely an interesting character with very ambitious goals to get to the core of original sin. Pullman uses religion merely as a part of his plot, not as some blasphemous attack on Christianity so this book should be read with an open mind. Pullman has a style similiar to Rowling, in the sense that the book uses simple diction, but Pullman has fantastic ideas and an interesting choice of diction that makes his characters much more real and interesting than many other novels.
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Summary: Nothern lights- a book for stary-eyed readers
Review: I read Northern lights, because my aunty who is a school librarian told me how good the book was. She certainly was not wrong. This book offers drama, action, love, hate and a gripping storyline.
The book is all about Lyra, a 12-year-old girl who goes on an amazing adventure up in the north to rescue her friend Rodger and her uncle Lord Asriel. I think this book has a brilliant story line, because as the book goes on new adventures unfold for Lyra that keeps any reader with an imagination involved in this delightful fantasy book.
Throughout the book you join Lyra through her adventures to save the world from original sin. I thought that the clever twist in the book really makes it interesting and an enjoyable race against time to see whether the world shall be destroyed or saved. You will have to read the book to find out, because I am not going to tell you!
Phillip Pullman is a very clever and talented writer and deserves much appreciation from his readers that have discovered a whole new universe inside a little book.
I would definitely recommend this book to anyone who is looking for a good fantasy read and something to stimulate your imagination.
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