The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, Book 1)

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Summary: This is an awesome book!!!!!!
Review: This book was so good!!!!!!!!! I recomend it to anyone, there is such a sense of magic in it and mystery! I cried at the end and was raving a bout it for months after! I can't wait to read the second one! this is a great book! Read it!

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Summary: This book is the best I have ever read!
Review: This book really inspired me. I am so anxious for the third book in the series!

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Summary: Panserbjørne, Dæmons, and Dust: The Golden Compass is great!
Review: I love this book! If you are interested in fantasy, this a must-have. A retelling of Milton's Paradise Lost, The Golden Compass is about a girl named Lyra who, with her dæmon Pantalaimon, must fulfill her destiny in ignorance of what she is doing, "for only in her ignorance can we be saved." Also try the sequel, The Subtle Knife.

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Summary: THE GREATEST BOOK IN THE WORLD (SUBTLE KNIFE TOO)
Review: Wow!!!!! I have never read a book so intersting in my whole life!!! And then, the Subtle Knife, whoa!!! Wicked, awesome! Whenever I hear the song: This is how we Party, it reminds me of this book because I was reading it and the song came on like, 3 times! Well, all I have to say is that, all fantasy readers out there, you'd better read this book, because it's awesome!!!!

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Summary: Amazing, you can pick it up but you can't put it down!!
Review: Amazingly writen. Never have I been so intriged by a book. Where does Mr. Pullman come up with such amzing ideas? It had so much detail that I could really feel everything that Lyra felt. Reading this book made me feel left out, for I do not have a daemon. This book gave me such a feeling of total and utter awe. This was THE best book I have ever read and I can't wait to get thhe second book, which I believe is called The Subtle Knife. The Golden Compass (Northern Lights) deserved the awards that it received, The Carnegie Medal and The Gardiann Children's Fiction Award. I wish that His Dark Materials would go on and on.

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Summary: A Great Book
Review: Althogh I was a little confused in the beginning about daemons and everything, the book was really good. Lyra is a good character and all of the odd things that Philip Pullman has created make the story even better.

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Summary: Very interesting
Review: I liked the book. It keeped me hooked from the very first word untill the very last. A good read.

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Summary: Jump at the chance to read/ buy it before it's to late!!!!!
Review: this is one of the best books i've ever read in my life!! THE GOLDEN COMPASS is about a girl named Lyra that set out to find her father and stop him and to find the source of dust.With the help of witches, an armored bear, her daemond Pan, and her anthelomiter will she be successfu?. It has all the things you love in a book, action, suspunce, mystery,thrills,and chills. I recommended it to my teacher and she said she hadn't read a book like The Golden Compass in a very long time and my friends loved it too!!!! You won't want to put it down after you start. And wh en you finshed don't be depressed 'cause they're is a sequel, The subtle knife which amazon also sells.

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Summary: This book rocked!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: The Golden Compass was an excellent book. The author's descriptions of a world just like ours but a little bit different were great! I especially liked Lyra's daemon Pantalaimon.

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Summary: The Golden Compass invokes timeless backyard adventures.
Review: Fantasists will immerse themselves in Philip Pullman's The Golden Compass. Fans of director Jean-Pierre Jeunet [City of Lost Children] will find that Pullman's novel evokes a similar textural quality with his prose. Pullman's juvenile adventurer, Lyra, plays as hard as one could imagine a young Indiana Jones--running fast and breathless into one tight spot after another. Adults will discover that Pullman knows the way back to furtive childhood explorations and explosive backyard battles under daydream skys. Children will find the same excitement they have yet to leave behind in their own fantasies. The Golden Compass will obtain the standing of a contemporary classic because of its cross-generational appeal, and will incite the sedentary into journeys that will reawaken them to the sights and sounds and experiences of their own world, and all those beyond.