The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, Book 1)

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Summary: This Book is the Best Book I've ever read
Review: This Book Is The best book I've ever read. When I first started Reading It just got me hooked. I was barely able to put it down.

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Summary: This is the best book i've read since 'Wrinkle in Time'
Review: This is the exact kind of book that I LOVE to read. With an extraordinary text this book is the work of a genius. This book WILL make you buy it's sequal, which I myself am waiting to come. I can't belive the work Philip Pullman has brought together in this wonderful trilogy.

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Summary: This is by far, involving book that I have ever read!
Review: Lyra is the type of kid I would want to be, bold, brave, this kid knows what she wants from life. I found that her world intrigued me, it was so different from our own, for example the way men are placed over women in value, and your soul (daemon)is your best friend. I wish that I had a daemon, the closness that "Pan" and Lyra share is amazing. I cried when Lyra and Pan were nearly tore apart by the gobblers. This book plays on your emotions very well, you can't put it down...

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Summary: AN INSTANT FAVORITE TO ANYONE WHO ENJOYS A GOOD FANTASY!!!!!
Review: This book is fantastic! Once you have started reading it you are lost in a magical world of Daemons, Dust, Alethiometers, and in the exciting, captivating life of Lyra and her Daemon, Pantelaimon. Phillip Pullman describes each wonder that is encountered, with exquisite detail.... enough detail that when you finally put the book down, you will find yourself holding your breath, clenching the book, and worrying about Lyra and all of the other characters! I suggest this book for anyone who enjoys fantasies. I love them, and this is one of the best I have ever read! More advanced readers will probably enjoy it more because at times it is very confusing, and there are a whole lot of places, and characters that you have to keep straight. I just finished the book, and now I'm itching to run out and buy the sequal!!!!!!!! :) :) :) :) **********

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Summary: Highly recommended for all young adults!
Review: My son, age 12 and I devoured this book!! It is one of the best stories ever written for young adults ( and their mom's). We found the first few chapters a bit tedious but once the characters were established, the book moved on so fast and with so much action and excitement. We can not wait to read the next one.

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Summary: My fourth grade students loved this book!
Review: I read The Golden Compass to my class of fourth graders. Lyra's adventures captivated them. They begged for literature time and purchased their own copies so that they could follow along. The vocabulary was mature, but they were so in love with Lyra and Pantalaimon that I did not have to explain every word. I read the book myself before reading it to my class and I could not put it down. This book is reminiscent of the Chronicles of Narnia! Adults and children will love this story.

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Summary: Story Review
Review: Lyra lives in a luxorius college among experienced scholars, non of wich are anything close to her type. You might say she is a "wild child". She is also very mischiefous, so one night she hides in a meeting place strictly for males, and she hears about dust. Some love the idea, others will stop at nothing to destroy it. This information, and the part it plays in this story may change her life forever . . .

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Summary: Absoulutely Astounding!
Review: Philip Pullman is a master of words. After reading this book I couldn't wait for the next. (Even though I read The Golden Compass three more times while waiting) Having such vivid characters like Lord Asriel, Mrs. Coulter, Iorek Byrnison, the Costas', and Lyra herself pulls you completely into the story. Especially because Pullman does not let one lose thread be there to unravel the whole storys magic. Of the many books I have read in my short life this book is right up there with the works of Tolken, McCaffery, and L'Engle. I wish I could give it an infinite number of stars.

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Summary: Unbeatable
Review: I am one of those readers who start a book and get bored halfway through and forget it. This book kept me interested throughout the whole book. It's marvelous! It keeps you on the edge of your seat for the entire read. This is a rare type of book, and I hope you will enjoy it as much as I have. Also check out the sequel, and soon the 3rd book in the series...

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Summary: One of the most amazing books I've ever read!!!
Review: "The Golden Compass" is a truely magnificent book. It is about a girl named Lyra and her daemon Pantalaimon. While easedropping on her Uncle Asriel, she learns about armored bears, the Aurora, and Dust. To explain what any of these things are or how they result in an amazing adventure with witches, bears, the Oblation Board, or cruel people known as Gobblers, not to mention the incredible journy Lyra and Pan make up North, would ruin the most suspensful and imaginative book I've read since "Dragonflight" by Anne McCaffrey. This book made me wish for my own personal daemon, and it is sure to capture the imagination and the hearts of anyone who has even heard of a fantasy book before. Read this book!