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xxThunder_Mousexx
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Anyone here read His Dark Matterials trilogy by Philip Pullman ?
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Arabella
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| Posted: January 6, 2008 4:35 pm Post subject: |
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yep! working on rereading them right now
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snitch_seeker2007
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have read the first one. i am working on the others, but i have stuff from school that i need to read too... stinkin' book reports
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siren_song
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| Posted: January 29, 2008 8:48 pm Post subject: |
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yeah, i read them a few years ago....
and the movie's supposed to be cool, but i haven't seen it.
the books are amazing though!!
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Elaina_Tabrielle
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| Posted: January 31, 2008 8:43 pm Post subject: |
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The books are good but I don't think they should be classified as childrens books.
And I think Phillip Pullman is full of crap |
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amilee
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| Posted: January 31, 2008 8:48 pm Post subject: |
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| I love that series. I've read all three of them! |
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zengrenouille
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| Posted: February 1, 2008 1:48 am Post subject: |
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| Elaina_Tabrielle wrote: |
The books are good but I don't think they should be classified as childrens books.
And I think Phillip Pullman is full of crap |
The books are good, and Pullman is full of crap . . . *Dare I say it  * Enlighten me, please.
I plan on reading this trilogy, but I decided once and for all that I am going to read the entire Harry Potter series through. I always said that I was going to read them all together, and I never make it very far, before my attention get drawn to another book. The only books that I read back-to-back were the first three, and then I read the fourth one about a month later. I'm due.
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kosmo
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| Posted: February 1, 2008 11:56 am Post subject: |
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oh i love this trilogy
i also saw the movie (so different)
i heard there's 4 book 'Lyra's world' or something like that but not in hebrew -___-
above me. . .
the book categorized all ages
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Arabella
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he wrote a sort of follow up book...Lrya's Oxford. I haven't read it though. I hear he also plans to publish another called "The Book of Dust"
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Wacky Macky
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| Posted: February 3, 2008 7:04 am Post subject: |
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I've read the original three, and I'm looking forward to reading Lyra's Oxford later on... whenever I get some more spare time, I guess.
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Arabella
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| Posted: February 3, 2008 3:05 pm Post subject: |
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you have tons of spare time. you just spend it talking to people haha.
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mugglemagic
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i started it but i lost interest.
i want to see the movie then pick up reading them again
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I seems scary 
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Isabelle Lestrange
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Have you heard his book the Golden Compass, its great!
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harriet
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I read the whole trilogy after I finished Harry the first time around. I was dying for something good to read after Harry and had seen Pullman interviewed on Charlie Rose and had heard his interview on NPR so I thought it sounded kind of good.
Well, I thought the series was inventive but lacked the depths of Harry and was ultimately unsatisfying. I don't know why he would call them 3 books when in fact, it really is just one book. When you get to the end of book one, you'd better have book 2 at the ready because he really leaves you hanging. It's as if a chapter ended instead of the book ending. The same is true for book 2.
He certainly had some engaging characters but in the end it left me feeling, "is that all there is?" Whereas when Harry was completed, I found myself swirling in thought of what had happened and wondering what might happened next.
I think Pullman's series is mediocre at best and I would not recommend that series. |
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Arabella
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lord of the rings was one book split into three parts. thing is nobody is going to want to read a huge book with it all together until a movie of it comes out. and I think it leaving hanging is a good thing, if you got to the end of it and thought "eh...I'll wait to read the next one" well that would be a bad thing.
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| Posted: February 18, 2008 5:26 pm Post subject: |
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| Arabella wrote: |
| lord of the rings was one book split into three parts. thing is nobody is going to want to read a huge book with it all together until a movie of it comes out. and I think it leaving hanging is a good thing, if you got to the end of it and thought "eh...I'll wait to read the next one" well that would be a bad thing. |
To a point. If a book ends not tying anything up at all and it just as easily could have just been the end of just another chapter, then there is no ending. If an author does this, I think the author was being neglectful of his audience by not completing the book. There should be some semblence of ending. I mean look at the Harry books. They left you wanting more but a complete story was told in each book. I think the way Pullman did it was evidence of shoddy writing. With a little more effort he might have made his book a more satisfying experience, but he did not. But that's just my opinion. |
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..rose.weasley..
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| Posted: February 24, 2008 6:58 am Post subject: |
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ive just finished the first book..
...cant wait to read the other 2. 
i didnt want to watch the movie, untill i had read the books. i thought it was better that way.
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