His Dark Materials

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• Rational magic

  His Dark Materials III: The Amber Spyglass Philip Pullman 500pp, Scholastic £14.99 Buy it at BOL One of the most eagerly awaited events of the children's publishing year will happen next week, when the third volume of Philip Pullman's Dark Materials ... (read full critics)

  guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

• Borrowing from Paradise Lost

  Though His Dark Materials provides its child readers with plenty of exciting episodes - chases and duels and desperate escapes - it is also demanding. The very language of the books refuses simplicity, Philip Pullman's diction including, without expl ... (read full critics)

  guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

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  The first book of the trilogy is actually very nice: nicely written and well plotted. From the second onward, Pullman begins losing the thread of the story, the narration gets harder to read and new characters are introduced and removed before becoming memorable, while old ones are just forgotten un ... (continue)

  The first book of the trilogy is actually very nice: nicely written and well plotted. From the second onward, Pullman begins losing the thread of the story, the narration gets harder to read and new characters are introduced and removed before becoming memorable, while old ones are just forgotten until the grand finale.
  But the thing that really got on my nerves, maybe, was that on the begin of the second book Pullman promised a church-sponsored army of zombies bent to the destruction of parallel universes, and nothing of the kind actually happened.
  A nice book all in all, but there sure are better ways to spend your time.

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  Coffee on Mars said on Sep 14, 2008 | 1 feedback

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  make a movie of it!

  i put these stories right up there with harry potter, lord of rings and chronicle of narnia although his are a lot, lot darker... but still excellent nevertheless

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  fatfacefan said on Apr 16, 2006 about the Mass Market Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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  After finishing these books it took me a while to pick up a new book. I was sad that I finished them and knew the next book I picked would have pretty big shoes to fill.

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  Maryjanelovesspiderman said on Apr 6, 2012 about the Mass Market Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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  An epic trilogy, brilliantly written and engaging from the the first chapter. Pullman grips the imagination and paints a dazzling and irresistable fantasy world of vast frozen arctic wastes and fascinating multi-layered characters, while simultaneously exploring controversial ideas about religion an ... (continue)

  An epic trilogy, brilliantly written and engaging from the the first chapter. Pullman grips the imagination and paints a dazzling and irresistable fantasy world of vast frozen arctic wastes and fascinating multi-layered characters, while simultaneously exploring controversial ideas about religion and politics. Truly one to fire the imagination and get young (and old) minds thinking.

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  Sugarbear said on Jun 8, 2010 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback

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  Good read

  A bit slow to start but really got interested once I kept going. The ending totally hit me off guard, I did not expect it at all.

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  beagle1 said on Oct 29, 2008 | Add your feedback

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  It took me a while to get through all 3 books, and I found the ending kind of a let down. But there are lots of imaginitive adventures to go on along the way. I would recommend reading them, just be prepared for a non-big finish.

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  GeekGirl said on May 14, 2008 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback

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• English Books
• Paperback 944 Pages
• ISBN-10: 0375847227
• ISBN-13: 9780375847226
• Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
• Pub date: Apr 24, 2007
• Dimensions: 1484 mm x 968 mm x 323 mm Just how big is that?
• Also available as: Mass Market Paperback, Hardcover, Library Binding and Others
• In other languages: other languages 繁體書, Libri Italiani

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