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Summary: 1 of the best books ever!!!!
Review: Northern Lights is thrilling and fillied with adventure.Lyra a wild spunky girl sets off on a journet to fid her friend Roger who has dissapeared. She meets witches, armoured bears and many other many magical creatures! This book is def 1 of the best ever!! Be sure to read it!!
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Summary: Northern Lights: Another Miracle Book!
Review: This book has unlocked a key in my head, the key to imagination.. this book along with it's sequals are the best books you can be reading now. They help you express yourself and widen you imagination
This book is about a girl called Lyra, and her daemon Pantalaimon.. she has a friend called Roger and he disapeared, a rumour spread that there were people who kidnapped kids, they were in danger of.. THE GOBBLERS! But Lyra didn't care, she was going to find Roger if it was the last thing she'd do!
Thanks Uncle Aiman for buying me this book from amazon.com
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Summary: 3/4: Great Book; 1/4: Complete Mess
Review: Northern lights is a book that is well written with a captivating storyline. From the first page, we get an impression of what Lyra is like as a person, with both positive and negative attributes, making her realistic.
The book is written from beginning to end, but every once in a while, a character talks about a prophecy involving Lyra and you want to find out what it is, Philip Pullman employs this technique to draw the reader in, for example, at the beginning the Master of the college tells someone that Lyra is going to betray someone, but it is not until the second to last chapter that we get to know who it is and why.
Several thing that is extremely annoying happen in the last quarter of the book, one, Lyra suddenly starts to use the word ¡®dear¡¯, ¡°Oh, Iorek! I¡¯ve done a terrible thing! My dear,¡¡±, in all of my life I have never heard of an eleven year old using the phrase ¡®my dear¡¯ in a sentence, and two, some of the characters acts completely out-of-character. So while the last few chapters of the book is a complete mess, the rest of the book is still a most gripping and convincing story that makes you want to read Part Two immediately.
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Summary: A Gentle Strange Adventure
Review: This is an interesting book, the story developed well from a suspensful opening. I found my self wanting to know more about the strange technology e.g. Anbaric Lighting but none of that was explored. I wanted to know more about what was known about Dust. I wanted to find out how the Atheliometer works. Lyra lives in a world which is very different from ours with a completely different nature. Every person has their own Demon which is a physical manefestation of their conciousness. The book contains a very textured world of many types of inhabitants ; Humans+Demons, Wiches, Panzerbjorn, Giptians. As I progressed through the book the plot continued in a fairly linear manner and I felt that the writer made the story just a little too simple. The twist at the end relating to Lyras relationship with her father was a little strange and seemed more of a convenience to the plot. The combination of circumstances pulled out an unlikely scenario which jarred with the earlier story. This left me feeling that although the book provided many textured and colourful scenes, the final scene did not end on a perfect cadence. I started to believe in Lyra less as the book finished. The story gives you a feel for the place and its atmoshphere and is a good book to read on a hot holiday.
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Summary: Boring as Hell
Review: I found this book incredibly boring. I think that the second book in the trilogy, The Subtle Knife was much better. I think that it had the potentials of being a good book but it went on a bit. I think it was a pretty average book.
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Summary: An eye opener
Review: Northern Lights is a captivating tale of a young girl looking for answers. Her journey through a world of actionpacked fantasy, enthrals readers from start to finish.
The author, Philip Pullman explores many issues in their world, which we can sometimes relate back to our society today.
Overall, Northern Lights was a good book, aimed at mature readers.
Please note that this book is not just a book to read for leisure, as you must also think as you are reading.
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Summary: Fantastic Fantasy
Review: Northern Lights is a thrilling and captivating ride through the mystical world of Lyra's. She takes us on a journey through the dangerous and truly amazing world of the North. the reader is taken through the world of high politics and also the world of "a half sane, half wild girl."The reader is introduced to many different characters and many different groups of people who each have their own views on the topic at hand, the Oblation Board. This book is truly sensational and definatly opens your eyes to another genre, with in fantasy.
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Summary: An arduous, overwhelming and deep read
Review: Northern Lights was an arduous and laborious read, far from enjoyable. Yes, the threads of the story were woven together to form an amazing and at times enthralling story, and yes, it was very cleverly written- as would be suggested by the number of awards the book has won. But it was not the type of book you would read for leisure. You really have to think as you read: what on earth is Aurora? What is elemantary particles?
I may take this attitude towards the book simply because my mind is not mature enough to think as deep as the book requires for you to catch its meaning, but that's just my opinion.
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Summary: An excellent book
Review: I think that this was an excellent book. It was a good book to study for school, but also, it was an excellent for pleasent reading. I would thoroughly recomend it for teenagers.
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Summary: it was kinda boring
Review: hey, i reckon northern lights is like, an ok kinda book. but it was sorta boring during heaps of places. but some places it was ok and kinda suspensful... i think i'm just repeating myself. anywayz, it was an ok book but i don't think i would have read it if it wasn't compulsary for school and stuff, so yeah.
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