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... a YA novel as the Next Best Thing, I might give it a go, however. It was word of mouth that led to me reading Pullman's Northern Lights, and I'm glad I did read it.
Oh, and there are several sections of the book shop I'll happily dismiss. Celebrity or sports personality biographies, for ... ... of Greek Thought
8 Math/Science
Early Greek Science: Thales to Aristotle
8 Fantasy
Elantris
The Golden Compass
The Subtle Knife
The Thief
In the Coils of the Snake
Valiant
8 Historical Fiction
Slammerkin
Year of Wonders
Woman of a Thou ... 23. The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, Book 1) by Philip Pullman (Finished 8/17/08) - Rating: 9/10 A trilogy that I particularly enjoyed recently is theHis Dark Materials by Philip Pullman, which includes The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife and Amber Spyglass.
And can we mention Harry Potter... here? ... reading Bridget Jones's Diary, began rereading Bridget Jones: the Edge of Reason, but gave up, now I'm rereading Northern Lights. I'd love to be in Philip Pullman's world. The Golden Compass is the first in the trilogy if you're not familiar with it.
It's not so much the WORLD so to speak that I'm interested in, but the dæmons. In Pullman's world, each person's soul takes on the form of an animal (which can change ... ... a dearth of good sci-fi lately. But fantasy is flourishing. Granted, it's mostly kids fantasy, but The Lord of the Rings, The Golden Compass, Stardust, The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, The Water Horse, the Harry Potter movies, the first Pirates of the Carribean and even Era ... You all are giving me a push to finish Pullman's trilogy. I read The Golden Compass a couple years ago, and my reaction was "Why didn't I know about these books before???" I bought the other two immediately, but haven't got around to reading them yet. Up the pile they go. ... des Dieux, Tome 3 : Le mystère des Dieux par Bernard Werber
L'été masqué par Madeleine Chapsal
A la croisée des mondes, Tome 1 : Les Royaumes du Nord par Philip Pullman
A la croisée des mondes, Tome 2 : La Tour des Anges par Philip Pullman
A la ... ... content.
I work in a bookstore and have encountered several customers who are all up in arms about Harry Potter or The Golden Compass or Twilight or The Da Vinci Code, and I've always wanted to ask them why, if their beliefs are strong and they've raised their children in those ... I'm with you: The Golden Compass was my favorite of the series as well. I really had to make myself finish Spyglass - of course, I did want to know the outcome, it was just hard for me to stay really involved as the novels went on... if that makes any sense at all.
good luck with your move! I ... ... what they do--and if it makes the movie too bland.
48. The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman
I have to say that The Golden Compass remains my favorite of this series, but I liked reading through until the end. I liked the ending, although it seemed a bit anti-climactic in some ways. ... ... ben ik ook bezig in de "His dark materials"-trilogie van Philip Pullman (in het Engels). Het eerste deel daarvan, "The golden compass" heb ik ooit eens gekocht in Nederlandse vertaling zonder te weten dat er twee op volgden (dat stond nergens aangegeven op het omslag), en ik heb nooit ... 46. The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
When I picked this up at the beginning of the year and just couldn't get inot it, it was definitely because I was feeling slumpish, I know now. This was so suspenseful, I had to force myself to slow down and read it all toward the end, and this ... interesting, I didn't love The Golden Compass and never bothered with the sequels, I might give it a try. I definitely think The Amber Spyglass is worth the read. However, people seem to either love The Golden Compass and not much care for it's sequels, or feel rather indifferent towards The Golden Compass and end up loving The Amber Spyglass. I fall firmly in later category. ... of Chaos by John C. Wright
14. Hanging on to Max by Margaret Bechard
15. Titans of Chaos by John C. Wright
16. The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
17. The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman
18. The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman
19. Lyra's Oxford by Philip Pullman
20. The ... ... for similar reasons to sonshi, but after so many poor recent book-to-film translations (hello Eragon, The Golden Compass and Romulus, My Father to name but three) I'm concerned that seeing the movie first might put me off a potentially enjoyable book.
so now I always ... I have to say Phillip Pullman fits this category for me. I thought that The Golden Compass was awesome but that the series went downhill from there (at least in my opinion, it has nothing to do with the theology stuff, I just kinda felt like the series lost luster with each successive book). ... the book via your catalog. This cuts down on the "drive-by." Drive-by reviews are found all over Amazon - check out the The Golden Compass for fine examples like this one:
The author of this book has made himself quite clear, he wrote these books to teach Children to hate God. Please ... just a guess, I know it's wrong...
The Golden Compass? ... by Shan Sa – 312 pgs.
Druids by Morgan Llywelyn – 404 pgs.
American Gods by Neil Gaiman – 592 pgs.
The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman – 351 pgs.
The War of Art by Steven Pressfield – 165 pgs.
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy – 440 pgs.
He’s J ... ... Room with a View, The Two Towers
37.5% / 3 votes :
Galaxy Quest, Little Women
25% / 2 votes :
Eragon, The Golden Compass, Pride and Prejudice (Knightley version)
1 vote :
Pirates of the Caribbean, Twilight ... -- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
30 August 2008 -- Little Women (Winona Ryder version)
6 September 2008 -- The Golden Compass
13 September 2008 -- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
20 September 2008 -- Galaxy Quest
After that, the Harry Potter movies will ... Sea of Silver Light by Tad Williams
The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
City of Golden Shadow by Tad Williams
The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass
Silver Fox by Marlene Fanta Shyer #12 I didn't like Inkheart, either. Nor The Golden Compass, etc. ... n
- The flight of Coltaine's birds. Awesome.
A Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin
- The Red Wedding. Shocking.
The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
- The very first chapter (The Decanter of Tokay). Pulled me headlong into this strange yet familiar world.
The Prisoner of Azkaban ... #19 The Golden Compass --I am not a huge fantasy fan, but I wanted to read this before watching the DVD. It was so-so. This book truly has two of the worst parents I think I have ever read in a book! Usually at least one of the parents is nice, loving, etc. Not here. In that respect it was ... ... than the "statistical islands". For my library, I'm thinking things like The Fountainhead,
Lord of the Flies, and The Golden Compass. (Really good would be to suggest The Horse and His Boy and unsuggest The Last Battle). It would be cool if the member unsuggestions turn out to be ... The Golden Compass! I want a daemon!!! ;) The last one was getting long and taking a while to load, so I thought I'd start a new one. Yesterday I finished The Golden Compass and started on The Subtle Knife. I anticipate finishing that today and at least getting a good chunk of The Amber Spyglass read. ... Materials by Philip Pullman would be considered alternate history - more alternate universes, but the original world of The Golden Compass is one that is oddly familiar while very different from our own. 11. Sense and Sensibility (ebook)
12. The Golden Compass
13. The Subtle Knife
14. The Amber Spyglass
15. Dracula (ebook) ... no other interests.
>45, great story! I'm always torn when people interrupt me while I'm reading. When I was reading The Golden Compass on the subway a few months ago, a woman began a long conversation with me about how great the book was, and how her children or grandchildren liked it, ... ... my friends' wishes before giving their children certain books. I didn't give my very Christian friends' 10 year old The Golden Compass, for instance. Because of this, I am always asked to give books for Christmas. And I'm the one who gets to pick out the perfect anatomy books for the ... ... votes)
Aladdin tied with Sense and Sensibility (7 votes)
Others tied (6 votes) : Becoming Jane, Galaxy Quest, The Golden Compass, and Little Women.
Edward Scissorhands (5 votes)
Pride and Prejudice (Knightley version, 4 votes)
Eragon (3 votes)
I have a couple of ... I bought The Golden Compass today and am going to watch it tonight. I enjoyed it so much at the theatre and saw it on sale at the store so treated myself.
I liked The Pursuit Of Happyness too, an amazing story. Will Smith has developed into such a talented actor. I can't wait to see his new ... ... ..
I think I'm going to finish The Constant Princess tonight, I have about 100 pages left. I read the first chapter of The Golden Compass yesterday and enjoyed it, so I'm looking forward to really diving into that book. The beauty of fantasy books is reading all the made up words and ... ... Potter and the Deathly Hallows
12 - Harry Potter and the Prince of Azkaban
10 - Jane Eyre
10 - Little Women
10 - The Golden Compass
10 - American Gods
10 - Catch-22
10 - The Kite Runner
... For instance last year the most challenged book was " And Tango Makes Three" a children's book about penguins. Also the ''Golden Compass''.
... read a lot of fantasy. What I do read is the mainstream popular books The Lord of the Rings, a few Discworld books, His Golden Materials and Harry Potter. Also, back around middle school I read quite a few books in the Everworld series by K.A. Applegate. (I think she's more well-k ... I located at least one inaccuracy -- the article refers to The Golden Compass as "Philip Pullman's "The Golden Compass," an anti-religious work in which a former nun says: "The Christian religion is a very powerful and convincing mistake." -- That statement is made in a later book in the ... ... there. I have to use a different phone than what I use now because it's not of much use there.
El is right. The dvd is The Golden Compass. :)
#352 el:
Yes! That'll be so funny to talk about the book on that thread being the one who has the copy now. I should send it off to another LTer ... ... didn't have a book with them to read. The first time I forgot to bring a book, I rushed to those books and the cover to The Golden Compass drew my interest so that I picked it up to read. For the rest of the week, I showed up to class early so I could grab it before anyone else. By Friday, ... ... and having been out shopping with my mom and kid sister, I felt very young as I asked my mom if she would please buy The Golden Compass dvd as I emphasized how very much I loved the book, and mentioning also how we had both wanted to see it and never got to.
I know not all of you ... Good suggestion, MrA! There's a thread on The Golden Compass here:
http://www.librarything.com/talktopic.php?topic=25533
You can continue the discussion there, if you'd like, and then the rest of us can chime in. It may already have been said,
but The Golden Compass is really good too, a little offensive, but HP can considered offensive to some people too. ... .
If you haven't read Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials series (which includes The Golden Compass, which was made into a movie), then I would recommend it, too. It's a three-book series, supposedly Young Adult, but wow - great.
Both these ... ... of the worst SF ever written. So that might define some of my tastes. The Uplift Series is good space opera. I liked The Golden Compass (my husband hated it), but thought the series became too didactic. The last book is fairly unreadable. Singularity Sky is fast paced and inventive. T ... Golden compass by Pullman
The Prydain chronicles by Lloyd alexander
Weirdstone Alex Garner
Wee free men, hat full of sky and Wintersmith plus Maurice and his amazing rodents and all of PTerry's bromiliads series
A few highlights anyway.
I much preferred Northern Lights / The Golden Compass to the other books in the trilogy. It's worth noting that both Northern Lights and Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand are the first parts of a trilogy (which deteriorates significantly as it continues), and Stars was supposed to be followed by a sequel that never appeared.
In general I agree with Ian except I consider Lit ... I found Little, Big a real slog.
Golden Compass is a quick decent read. ... n:
Singularity Sky by Charlie Stross
Startide Rising by David Brin
The Iron Dragons Daughter by Michael Swanwick
The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
Stars In My Pocket Like Grains of Sand by Samuel Delany
Light by M. John Harrison
Little Big by John Crowley
Any ... ... a reread book towards your challenge? Second, what constitutes a reread? I listened to an unabridged audio version of The Golden Compass several years ago (which was really fantastic by the way - it was like auditory theater). So, I was thinking I'd like to actually read the novel. Does ... 12. Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
My review ... Once Upon a Time in the North by Philip Pullman
This is the second follow-up novella to the His Dark Materials series (The Golden Compass & sequels), after Lyra's Oxford. One of my favorite things about the series is that the world is so well thought-out, and the way in which it's like an ... Wow! All those highly-touted books as busts!
I just bought The Golden Compass, now I'm afraid to read it.
I like both Tamora Pierce, who I started reading because of recommendations on LT, and Melanie Ann Pierce (SP?) who I got because I didn't look at anything but the Pierce part when I ... ... school Librarian) had her Spring Scholastic Book Fair last week. In the fall, there was a large controversy over The Golden Compass, as the movie had just been released, and it was reported that part of the plot of the book was to kill God. I haven't read the book, or seen the movie, ... 21. The Golden Compass (re-read)
22. The Subtle Knife (re-read)
23. The Man Born to be King
I will comment breifly on the other two when I finish the third in the trilogy (which will not be a re-read)
Although Dorothy Sayer's cycle of radio plays on the life of Christ would be ... ... New Moon in special edition, and Eclipse in hardcover
* Inkheart in hardcover, and Inkspell in paperback
* Golden Compass in paperback, Subtle Knife in hardcover, and Amber Spyglass in mass market paperback (eww!) ... banned books bookmarks. Ever since then, I've looked at the list as kind of a "To Be Read" list. The only reason I read The Golden Compass was because people kept sending me emails to boycott the movie! ... them with kid friendly covers (I'm especially thinking of the cherub like kid riding a polar bear for the kids version of The Golden Compass here) and then a more 'mature' looking cover for adults that don't want to carry around a book with a cuddly polar bear on the cover. In the UK I know ... I haven't read any 5-star books this quarter, but overall I've been reading some good books. In the order I read them:
The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
Black Ships by Jo Graham
My Life in France by Julia Child
The Club Dumas by Arturo ... 3. Emma
4. The God of Small Things
5. The Golden Compass
6. the subtle knife
7. the amber spyglass antimuzak, i'm currently reading The Golden Compass by Phillip Pullman you were talking about! i didn't realize it was the book you had recommended until i came back to read this thread/conversation! THANKS FOR THE RECOMMENDATION, it's a really well written and enjoyable book! antimuzak, i'm currently reading The Golden Compass by Phillip Pullman you were talking about! i didn't realize it was the book you had recommended until i came back to read this thread/conversation! THANKS FOR THE RECOMMENDATION, it's a really well written and enjoyable book! 14. The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
It struck me as I was reading it that The Golden Compass used great vocabulary-too bad the other 2 didn't as much.
Citizens: A chronicle of the French Revolution-the vocab in that book is SO specific-the right words is always used, never the almost right word-I actually had to look a few of ... The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman 6. Northern Lights (His Dark Materials) (Északi fény) by Philip Pullman in Hungarian ... level do.
Would you go into a Christain Book store and poor paint all over their Bibles because you can't buy copies of The Golden Compass there? I doubt it - especially since it's vandalism and requires showing your face.
This is the problem with the internet - we behave in ways that we' ... I finished another book on Thursday (3/13). It was one of a series, The Golden Compass. I saw the movie but found some parts difficult to understand. That is so often true when they try to cram too much into a normal length movie. I have already started the second book in the series. I ordered ... ... sense I think of placing words in poems in a similar way to the symbols on Lyra's aleithiometer in Northern Lights (or The Golden Compass if you're in America) by Philip Pullman (a writer greatly influenced by poets including Blake and Milton). Pullman describes Lyra as focussing on ... ... at the moment, so am reading some random stuff, starting with Philip Pullman's Northern Lights (released in the US as The Golden Compass).
I'm in Oxford in a parallel universe, and actually quite enjoying myslef. Well guess I'll start with what I've read this year:
1. The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
2. The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman
3. The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman
4. Between Darkness and Light by Lisanne Norman
5. Acorna's Triumph by Anne McCaffrey and ... ... slowing down this year! I finished The Subtle Knife by Pullman and LOVED it. In fact, I think it is even better than The Golden Compass. I am working on The Amber Spyglass so I can finish off the trilogy, although now I see that there is another book, Lyra's Oxford which also ... I think Inkheart, The Golden Compass, and A Series of Unfortunate Events were all good. D. Books Received From Others
Loaners, gifts, and books from fellow BookCrossers
1. Philip Pullman, The Golden Compass
2. Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Teheran
3. Carolly Erickson, Bonnie Prince Charlie
4. Eric Flint, The Philosophical Strangler
5. L. A. Meyer, Bloody Jack ... ...
Devil’s Bride by Stephanie Laurens (19th Century)
The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde (Swindon, 20th Century)
The Golden Compass by Phillip Pullman (Oxford, 19th Century)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows by J.K. Rowling (20th Century)
Jane Eyre by Chalotte Bronte ... The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
... both The Shadow Year and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time and would definitely place them far above The Golden Compass. Isn't it great that there are enough differing opinions to make the world interesting and give all these writers readers?
edited for a typo #27 Chelsea:
The Golden Compass is simply amazing. It's one of my favorites. Have you seen the movie yet?
I read books 1-6 of A Series of unfortunate Events. They were okay.
#30 compski:
I got Fantasic Beasts and Where to Find Them and Quiditch Through the Ages a few ... ... dea.
I'll rank the 2008 books as I read them:
Ada
Olive Kitteridge: A life in stories
The Secret Life of Bees
The Golden Compass
The Subtle Knife
Him, Her, Him Again, the End of Him
The Shadow Year
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time 27 Chelsea
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