The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, Book 1)

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Summary: The Golden Compass was a great, exciting book.
Review: "The Golden Compass" is a great book. Lyra and her daemon are taken from their regular life at Jordan College and pushed into a race against many evils. These evils focus around the discovery of "dust", a microscopic particle that is attracted to humans, especially adults. This book is sure to keep you hooked and rates up there with some of the best fiction/science-fiction books ever.

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Summary: This book was magical!
Review: I feel that The Golden Compass was imaginative and very magical. It had all the components of a fantastical story that rips you from reality and pulls you into an alternate universe, not unlike Lyra and Pantimilian. This book held a quality unlike no other that I have read and I think that it was a bridge to the imagination.

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Summary: Second best fantasy book I've ever read.
Review: The beginning is a little complex and confusing, but the world, text and characters are completely immersing. From the secret Gypsies to Mrs. Coulter's evil plans, I really got into Lyra's character, particularly how she frees Iorek Bryinson and makes him king of all bears. It's a shame the author got rid of him in no. 2, but he'll be back for 3. Overall great fantasy novel. Absorbing. Only complaint is that it's too short. Highly recommended.

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Summary: One of the best books in history!!
Review: This book is fantastic! It keeps you on the edge of your seat. I couldn't put it down.Lyra's adventure was so exciting that it made my heart race.Lyra and her daemon travel to the north to save her friend from being severed away from his deamon.With the help of witches, an armored bear, and a Texan aeronaut she ruins the evil place of Bolvangar.This heroine is one of the most wonderful people in the magical world of books. I'd reccomend this book to anyone.

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Summary: This book about a girl and a compass called an alethiometer
Review: May I say. That the Golden Compass is one of the Best books that I have ever read. It is about a young 11(or older)girl named Lyra who grows up in a college without the quidance of her mother or father. She lived happily, or til at least the Gobblers came.
They took children away from their families and up to the north. Lyra finds this out and obtains a compass looking contraption called an alethiometer which always tells her the truth.
Lyra ends up traveling up north with the gyptions. In her adventure Lyra and her daemon Pantalaimon travel up North, meet Lyra's true mother and her true father, and free the children with an armored Polar Bear. I highly suggest that you read this book. It will bring you on a marvelous adventure up to the North with talking bears, daemon's and witches.

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Summary: Such a fantastic book!
Review: This book is about a girl named Lyra, and her daemon, or attached ceature. I am 11 years old and I loved it! It has strong characters, good villians, and a suprise ending. It is not one of those prissy, oh-John-save-me books starring girls, because the villain is a girl, and Lyra is tough. This book is slightly cotrovercial, because there are scientific tests that some characters do on childeren which result in death. But I give this book 1000000000000000 stars.

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Summary: Parents: Read this book to your kids.
Review: I read this book to my 10 year old son it is now one of his favorite books. It was a wonderful book to get kids interested in reading. I even found myself getting into the story of little Lyra. Even though it has a (god forbid) girl as the heroine she is fun enough to get even the most stubborn boy to read.

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Summary: I loved this book but it was a little elaborate!!!
Review: I found The Golden Compass to be one of the best fantasy books I have ever read. The language was superb but the plot was very complex. You have to read this book in 3 or 4 days otherwise you will most likely forget the details that make this book great. For anyone that does not have the vocabulary of a 50 year old should read this book with a dictionary at hand. This book deserves recognition as one of the greatest fantasy classics.

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Summary: awesome
Review: I loved this book. It left me quivering with excitment. I think this book should be recomended to every child over 12 years of age. I am only 12 but I am reading the SUBTLE KNIFE and I am about to finish it in less than a week. for the golden compass I was to do it for a project and I wasn't finished but I read like I were an adult.

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Summary: Finally a creative fantasy novel arrives!
Review: I have read and enjoyed fantasy for years but have all but abandoned it, having lost hope for an unhackneyed approach to the genre. This book has renewed my interest and I look forward to reading the second.