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Summary: Wonderful fantasy book for kids and grown ups alike
Review: very imaginative and well thought out this book is hard to put do
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Summary: amazing modern day myth
Review: Great, well-paced, original novel that transcends the humdrum of a lot of the fiction on the market. The characters are fun and interesting, the story is excellent and changes enough to be surprising. Catchy and addictive reading; a great way to escape. Lyra's character is interesting and enjoyable to "watch", and the other characters make you turn page after page with childlike wonder. I picked up the sequel, subtle knife, right away. Excellent!
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Summary: golden compass is one of the best books ive read
Review: This is such an amazing book. I was on a trip when I first picked it up. I then devoted every spare moment away from sightseeing to it. The author who wrote this must have had a fantastic imagination. He thought up daemons (everybody has one. They are amimals that are like a part of your soul, you can's be seperated from them or a part of you is basically torn away. A person's daemon is often that person's best friend. While a person is in adolecence, their daemon can change shapes, but when someone had gone through puberty, their daemon stays fixed in a creature that shows the personality of the person.)and other great fantasy creatures and objects. You will love this book.It is a great read.
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Summary: more challenging, but wonderful
Review: If you like Harry Potter but want something a little more challenging, this is the book for you. Pullman casts an intricate tale, wonderfully detailed and well written. It is harder to reader than most young adult books, and can be confusing, but the characters are interesting and likeable, for the most part. The idea of daemons is wonderful. I would definetly recommend this book. You will become hooked, however and have to go out and get The Subtle Knife, the second book in the series.
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Summary: This is an Amazing book
Review: This book is a cross between fantasy and science fiction. Its about a girl named Lyra living at Oxford College in Engalnd. But the world she lives in is not like ours. Its a world of daemons, gobblins, talking bears, and witches. Lyra expores the roofs and the undergrounds of Oxford with her friend. But her comfy cozy life at Oxford is disrupted when she is sent on a mission. Which is where the golden compas comes in. It can tell Lyra anything she wants to know. On this journey she goes on she has to venture to the far norths. And she always has to be on the lookout for who she can and cannot trust. Will she survive to win this immortal battle? Read this book its great!
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Summary: good book, but with some flaws
Review: This book was very good, I found some concepts like every person having their own Daemon interesting, but what really bothered me was the lack of depth in the characters. Lyra is good all the way though, and her mother is complelty evil. It is hard to imagine characters that are so black and white like this. Also this weird relationship she had with the bear really baffled me. But all in all, it was an okay book.
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Summary: The Golden Compass-What a Book!
Review: Page after page. Chapter after chapter. This book made you want to read on and on. All of the words were used in the right way, at the right time, and that is what helped make the book so good. It went into your heart, and that made you feel one with the book. It is a book for children of all ages to read that do not like to read. It is a book that really reaches to them. Like the part when they described the woman's daemon, a golden monkey, (a pet that belongs to that person), any child would love it. I would give this book two thumbs up, way up
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Summary: Wonderful story - Excellent cast -
Review: Superb acting. So it's just about criminal to release this audiobook on such poor quality tapes that wobble and the sound fades in and out - and that's on the first play. If you thought the books were good-to-brilliant, lobby to get a CD version soon.
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Summary: Incredible!
Review: Though the book is marketed towards young adults, I found it a compelling and incredibly well-written fantasy novel suited for older teens and adults. Lyra is a feisty, energetic, and wonderful character and the world she inhabits is filled with both heart-pounding danger and vivid beauty. The novel is 'action-packed' without degenerating into routine battle descriptions so endemic of this genre. Finally, the novel presents questions of science, of theology, of philosophy--posing the issue, most interestingly, of what constitutes the soul. Highly recommended for fans of Eddings, Brooks, or Donaldson.
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Summary: My Favorite Book
Review: I have read thousands of books in my time and this one is probably the best ever. All the action and adventure you could ever want! I am now reading it for what is probably the fifth time and I am still not bored with it. The story line goes something like this:Lyra lives at Jordan College in Oxford, England, playing on the roofs with Roger the kitchen boy and making war with other children of many different social places. Her life is great, until the Gobblers come on to the scene. Then, nearly everything falls apart, for the Gobblers have been taking children from Oxford, and among them is her best friend. Soon Lyra finds herself in the North, on an expedition to save the kids from that horrid place called Bolvanger, where they perform terrible experiments on the kidnapped children. This book is filled with richly developed characters, including armored bears, huge nursemaids, beautiful witches, and one Texan aeronaut with an amazingly long pistol. Book fans of any genre will love this story!
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