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His Dark Materials and Wind on Fire

Discussion in 'Booktalk' started by Z-Layrex, Jun 9, 2002.

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    [​IMG] I have been reading two, fantasy trilogys that are just wonderful. DArk materials books by Phillkip Pullman and the Wind on Fire trilogy by William Nicholson. Anyone else read these books. I seariously recommend them.
    Dark materials- Northern lights, THe subtle knife and the Amber spyglass.

    Wind on Fire- THe wind singer, Slaves of the Mastery and Firesong.
     
    Z-Layrex, Jun 9, 2002
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    [​IMG] Yea, I heard His Dark Materials trilogy is really good. It's on my buy-list for the next Amazon shipment. ;)

    Those books won him some awards, but I don't remember which.

    Haven't heard about the other one yet though.
     
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    I've read all of the Dark Materials series by Philip Pullman. They are very, very good and not just for kids. A definite 'must-read' in my opinion. There is a lot of good character development from story to story.

    C-Jakob-- didn't like l'engle's stuff. I believe Northern Lights is a European name for the Golden Compass.

    [This message has been edited by TheBlackRose (edited June 11, 2002).]
     
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    I really loved His Dark Materials trilogy. Combined great fantasy, a bit of theology, and some of science into a great masterpiece. Too bad I never read the last one though. . .

    Z-Layrex, are you sure Northern Lights is one of the trilogy? I thought The Golden Compass was the first one.

    If you really liked His Dark Materials, read A Wrinkle in Time, A Wind in the Door, and other fantasy books by Madeline l'Engle. They're very good also.
     
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    Yeah for some stupid reason they changed Northern lights to the golden compass for the US books, i wonder why they do that, they did it with Harry Potter too...
     
    Z-Layrex, Jun 12, 2002
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    They probably changed it from Northern Lights to The Golden Compass because the latter's name fits in with that of The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass. They supposedly changed HP and the Philosopher's Stone to HP and the Sorcerer's Stone to make more money off some sorcerer's stone craze in the U.S. Never heard of it myself.
     
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    I absolutely loved the 'His Dark Materials' trilogy. The first two books were fantastic, I literally couldn't put them down until I'd finished them. Although 'The Amber Spyglass' was good, I don't think it was as good as the other two - there were a few loose ends remaining that needed to be sorted out.

    Example: When that Priest guy (his name escapes me) was sent to kill Lyra and follows her and Will into another dimension, there's a bit where he apparently gains control over a group of hostile creatures and will use them to help him... in the next chapter, what's he doing? He's going it solo again without any explaination! I think that, in his haste to write such an (admittedly very good) 'epic', Phillip Pullman forgot to 'tidy up' a few minor details like this...
     
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    [​IMG] the amber spy glass was the worst of the 3 books...the series started to loose its touch with the 2nd then the 3rd book
     
    griffin1987, Jul 10, 2002
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    Yes, I liked the Dark Materials trilogy also -- it is (apart from rereading the Narnia books LOTR aloud for the kids) the only fantasy I have read for years. I liked Iorek Byrnison -- armored bears are completely implausible but such a cool idea, you don't mind. Also the daemons -- very cool.
     
    Methylviolet, Jul 11, 2002
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    His Dark Materials is very good; I love the melding of religion, mythology, and fantasy. What's Wind on Fire though?
     
    Tiamat, Jul 31, 2002
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