Does anybody here know about these books? Only heard about them about a week ago and I am completly lost. Help? _________________ Name:Nathan Wolgeth
Age:17
Physicaly:6'2" tall/180 pounds/very fit/ brown hair and eyes
Wand: Ash, 9 3/4 inch., and Dragon Heart strings
Goal in life: to be an Auror/ Goin me at http://z15.invisionfree.com/Rpartist/index.php? RP Ausomeness.
Very good book! First installment of His Dark Materials Trilogy by Philip Pullman. some of my favorite books from one of my favorite authors.
here's a summary thingy
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In a landmark epic of fantasy and storytelling, Philip Pullman invites readers into a world as convincing and thoroughly realized as Narnia, Earthsea, or Redwall. Here lives an orphaned ward named Lyra Belacqua, whose carefree life among the scholars at Oxford's Jordan College is shattered by the arrival of two powerful visitors. First, her fearsome uncle, Lord Asriel, appears with evidence of mystery and danger in the far North, including photographs of a mysterious celestial phenomenon called Dust and the dim outline of a city suspended in the Aurora Borealis that he suspects is part of an alternate universe. He leaves Lyra in the care of Mrs. Coulter, an enigmatic scholar and explorer who offers to give Lyra the attention her uncle has long refused her. In this multilayered narrative, however, nothing is as it seems. Lyra sets out for the top of the world in search of her kidnapped playmate, Roger, bearing a rare truth-telling instrument, the compass of the title. All around her children are disappearing—victims of so-called "Gobblers"—and being used as subjects in terrible experiments that separate humans from their daemons, creatures that reflect each person's inner being. And somehow, both Lord Asriel and Mrs. Coulter are involved.
Ooh, now i gotta read it. It sounds awesome. The movie did too, and that is why i was asking, cuz i like to read books before the movies come out. Just another book to put on my list of things to read... _________________ Twilight fan? Come here!
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I admit, I only heard of them through the movie that's coming out next month. And a news article about the Catholic church in Canada banning them from all private Canadian schools.
I just bought the book today. The three of them. They were all in the same like volume thing. So now I'm prolly gonna read it over christmas vacation. _________________ Twilight fan? Come here!
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I am contemplating asking my parents for it but then again I've seen alot of anti religious about it. So I might have to by it on my own and hide it. But it sounds good. I was watching the previews and I thought that the guy how plays Aslan in the narnia series would make a great Bear. _________________ Name:Nathan Wolgeth
Age:17
Physicaly:6'2" tall/180 pounds/very fit/ brown hair and eyes
Wand: Ash, 9 3/4 inch., and Dragon Heart strings
Goal in life: to be an Auror/ Goin me at http://z15.invisionfree.com/Rpartist/index.php? RP Ausomeness.
They are all really good.. I teared up at the ending.. but the one thing I can't wait for when the movie comes out is how to pronounce "Pantalaimon".. Everyone I know says it differently.. heh..
I say Pant-uh-lay-mun. but I also said Lyra Lear-uh, which is apparently wrong. still sounds better to me though.
and yeah the end made me tear up...and this other part in amber spyglass would have made me cry if I hadn't been in studyhall...it was so hard holding it back haha uh I"ll put it in spoilers
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when lyra and will were crossing into the world of the dead and had to leave their deamons behind...so gut and heart wrenching!
I say Pant-uh-lay-mun. but I also said Lyra Lear-uh, which is apparently wrong. still sounds better to me though.
and yeah the end made me tear up...and this other part in amber spyglass would have made me cry if I hadn't been in studyhall...it was so hard holding it back haha uh I"ll put it in spoilers
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when lyra and will were crossing into the world of the dead and had to leave their deamons behind...so gut and heart wrenching!
See.. I always said Pan-Tal-uh - mon and pronounced Lyra as Lie-Ra
And yeah that was so sad.. I could almost feel it myself.. you know.. like what it would feel like to have that happen.. but I always felt that it would have been harder for Lyra because she actually knew that part about her, where Will didn't.
And for some reason I always really liked Lee Scoresby.. guess its my thing for rugged cowboy types.. with balloons and hares... I really like hares..
but where do you jet pan-tal-UH-mon. how does ai make an uh sound???
my fave character is a tie between iorek byrnison (the polar bear for those of you have only seen the trailer) and will, who doesn't even get introduced until the second book. _________________
There's alot of people that are talking about it being bad religiously, do any of you have any idea what it is?
That is to say, I will form my own opinions when I read them, but I would like to have some idea of what I'm dealing with.
The basis of my argument is going to have to be that I should judge things for myself, after all I am nearly 18. Dang, I feel like a moma's boy. _________________ Name:Nathan Wolgeth
Age:17
Physicaly:6'2" tall/180 pounds/very fit/ brown hair and eyes
Wand: Ash, 9 3/4 inch., and Dragon Heart strings
Goal in life: to be an Auror/ Goin me at http://z15.invisionfree.com/Rpartist/index.php? RP Ausomeness.
its not against religion, its against religion being the government. the catholic church seems sure that its about them...but its not. I thought church of england as I read it actually. and then in the third book of the series...it sets up an interesting uh I'll call it "god scenario", but if anyone actually believed it because they read it in the book they'd be really dumb. I'm sure pullman doesn't even believe it and its certainly not going to convert kids to atheism. I didn't feel for a moment that my faith was under attack. basically its just people overreacting. _________________
Ya, I'm catholic so I get alot of those anti fantasy people. It's like people just look for reason to tear them down.
They forget that Fantasy is fiction. Meaning NOT REAL. I'm so glad I can tell my parents that I'll read what I want and not have to worry about them grounding me or something stuppid
When you look at it, its like alot of adults that are very inteligent, hate fantasy/sci-fi. Look at the books they make you read in school. Rarelly do you get a fantasy, or any that are good for that matter.
Fantisy is my passion and I hate to see it regarded as a lesser literature. _________________ Name:Nathan Wolgeth
Age:17
Physicaly:6'2" tall/180 pounds/very fit/ brown hair and eyes
Wand: Ash, 9 3/4 inch., and Dragon Heart strings
Goal in life: to be an Auror/ Goin me at http://z15.invisionfree.com/Rpartist/index.php? RP Ausomeness.
Not to toot my own horn, but I'm actually fairly smart. I love fantasy books. I think that that was a generalization. I hate like, "smart people" books. I love to immerse myself in a different world. Though, i'm not an adult.
I agree with you on the whole bad books in school thing. We always read "real life" books and I hate it. They are so lame. I think we should read something fairly interesting. Although, since i've been out of 7th grade, they started reading Skellig by: david Almond (or someone to that effect) And it was a really good book. I don't know why we couldn't read it.
I'm not saying all smart people don't like fantasy, what I'm saying is the people who are smart that teach us tend to dislike fantasy. I've never had a Enlish teacher that shared my love for Fantasy.
My preasent Literature teacher is a doctor and is abbsesed with the early american romantics. Most of which she makes us read is about puritain girls that have modern day problems. Why read about real life when we live it every day? _________________ Name:Nathan Wolgeth
Age:17
Physicaly:6'2" tall/180 pounds/very fit/ brown hair and eyes
Wand: Ash, 9 3/4 inch., and Dragon Heart strings
Goal in life: to be an Auror/ Goin me at http://z15.invisionfree.com/Rpartist/index.php? RP Ausomeness.
I don't know, but the only time we get to read sci-fi books, is in sci-fi class. yOU get to learn the history of science fiction and stuff. I can't wait to take it. _________________ Twilight fan? Come here!
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If they had something like that at my school, I would be all over it like flies on a slab of meat. _________________ Name:Nathan Wolgeth
Age:17
Physicaly:6'2" tall/180 pounds/very fit/ brown hair and eyes
Wand: Ash, 9 3/4 inch., and Dragon Heart strings
Goal in life: to be an Auror/ Goin me at http://z15.invisionfree.com/Rpartist/index.php? RP Ausomeness.
I read all three of the books like, last year. The whole against God thing doesn't phase me that much because if it doesn't turn you personally against God, why should it matter?
I actualy hear the movie was a flop. _________________ Name:Nathan Wolgeth
Age:17
Physicaly:6'2" tall/180 pounds/very fit/ brown hair and eyes
Wand: Ash, 9 3/4 inch., and Dragon Heart strings
Goal in life: to be an Auror/ Goin me at http://z15.invisionfree.com/Rpartist/index.php? RP Ausomeness.
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