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Summary: A young girl is faced with a dangerous quest.Fantasy classic
Review: The Golden Compass is a compelling and wonderful story of fantasy and adventure. I was still wondering about Lyra and her friends long after it ended. A must read on my shel
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Summary: This was a amazingly complex book!
Review: I have read this book many times. It is wonderful. I can't wait until this books companions are all out in stores. This is a complex book about a universe similar to ours but in many ways different. Many people have heard of a witches familiar, in this book all the people have something similar called a daemon. In this book young Lyra Belacqua lives in a wild college life with her friend Roger, who suddenly disappears sending Lyra into whirlwind of... well I don't want to spoil it. It is so good I have read it 2 times. If you haven't read the book, I am telling you Read It
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Summary: The best book in a long time.
Review: I've just started this one,but even now I think it's better than any kind of book I ever read. Come soon, books two and three!
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Summary: Highly Recommended
Review: A beautiful, imaginative book with characters of depth and
integrity, a reality painted with vivid strokes in colours
from the full range of the spectrum - and a true heroine,
free from the pitfalls of parody.
This author is mercifully timeless; he has not succumbed to
this decade's bleak and paralyzing fear of archetypes, and
I will certainly be looking for his other publications.
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Summary: Derivative and full of traditional fantasy biases.
Review: Although the writing is good, The Golden Compass fails
to go beyond the most elementary re-imagining of the fantasy world: Pullman lost me in Chapter One, where
he casually informs the reader that all servants'
daemons are dogs. Presumably domestic workers everywhere have the same personality? By the time I got to his child-stealing beautiful lady I was too tired to go on. There's nothing original about this kind of
Anglophilic sexism and classism.
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Summary: One of the greatest fantasy books in a long, long time.
Review: This has got to be one of the best books I have every read.
If you liked anything of the Shannara books, this will knock
your socks off. Be sure to look out for the sequel!!
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Summary: Wonderful characters & story!
Review: I thoroughly enjoyed the book. I occasionally had questions,
such as the "familiars" everyone seems to have. But now I believe
he'd ruin the narration of the story if all aspects of the characters were explained. It keeps you thinking which I believe
a book should do.
I'm looking forward to books 2 & 3! Write Faster Please!
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Summary: Compelling
Review: This is one of the best new books to come out in a long time. I didn't always understand what was happening, but I couldn't put it down. I am really looking forward to the next book in the series
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Summary: Good but does not yet have sticking power
Review: Pullman writes well, so this work is great fun to read.
I must say that I did not find the work very compelling,
in contrast to, for instance, "The Crock of Gold"
or the Narnia series, or the Alvin Maker series. The book just did not stick with me much. I will certainly read the
sequels; however, I will (as I did the first book) check them out from the library. They will probably not join Lord of the Rings, The Deed of Paksenarrion, and the Riddle-Master of Hed on my "keepers" bookshelf.
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Summary: Praise for THE GOLDEN COMPASS
Review: "One of the best fantasy/adventure stories I have read in years" (Terry Brooks)
"Very grand indeed...There is scene after scene of power and beauty." (New York Times Book Review)
"Superb...Offers moral complexity as well as heart-stopping adventures." (Washington Post Book World)
"A fantasy-adventure that sparkles with childlike wonder but is overlaid with a darker, enigmatic intensity." (Boston Sunday Globe)
"Extraordinary storytelling at its very best." (Detroit Free Press)
"Nothing short of breathtaking...This glittering gem will leave readers of all ages eagerly awaiting the next installment" (Publishers Weekly)
"A shattering tale that begins with a promise and delivers an entire universe" (Kirkus Reviews)
"An astonishing, compelling fantasy...Touching, exciting, and mysterious by turns, this is a splendid work" (Horn Book Magazine)
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