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... Burroughs
May Contain NUTS John O'Farrell
The CHISELLERS Brendan O'Carroll
The Moment I SAW You Lisa Samson
The Subtle KNIFE Philip Pullman ...
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 Thousand Secrets
8 ... ... 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? I am currently reading Christy, The Subtle Knife and Trickster's Choice.... back and forth between all three. Cittàgazze from The Subtle Knife ... Hodgson Burnett
74. Just Ella by Margaret Peterson Haddix
75. Catherine Called Birdy by Karen Cushman
76. The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman
77. The Glasswright's Journeyman by Mindy L. Klasky
78. The Frog Princess by E.D. Baker ... 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 croisée des mondes, Tome 3 : Le Miroir d'Ambre par Philip Pullman
L'enfant ... 47. The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman
Still fun, very interesting. If they make more movies, I have no idea how they are going to be able to avoid pissing off the Catholic Church or any Christian Church, but I am sure they will figure out a way. That girl who played Lyra in the movie ... I am reading the second book in the His Dark Materials Trilogy, it's called The Subtle Knife and I'm also reading a book called Martin the Warrior by Brian Jacques. It's the 7th book I'm reading in the Redwall saga.
I've also recently finished the book A Wizard of Earthsea and it was amazing. ... ... 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 World Without Us by Alan Weisman
21. The ... I'm planning on reading The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass, Twilight, and Fahrenheit 451 (for school). Plus, as many others from my TBR pile as possible. ... Karlin – 223 pgs.
Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk – 289 pgs.
Smoke and Mirrors by Neil Gaiman – 365 pgs.
The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman – 288 pgs.
The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman – 465 pgs.
Richard III by William Shakespeare – 106 pgs.
The Fel ... Finished The Subtle Knife. Moving on. ... 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. Ok...so I have forgotten to keep this updated! Here we go!
5. The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman
6. The Sisters by Poppy Adams (ARC book so not coming up on touchtones.
7. Nim's Island by Wendy Orr
8. Circle of Quilters by Jennifer Chiaverini
9. The Arthurian Omen
... 11. Sense and Sensibility (ebook)
12. The Golden Compass
13. The Subtle Knife
14. The Amber Spyglass
15. Dracula (ebook) ... my city. It opened on Thursday. Yay! We were so lucky it had opened. I bought three books for a total of $32.27. I bought The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass, and Chicken Soup for the Pet Lover's Soul. I convinced my mom to buy Pot Bellies and other Miniature Pigs because we are going ... I finished The subtle knife yesterday and I'm working on The amber spyglass. ... is a very powerful and convincing mistake." -- That statement is made in a later book in the trilogy (I believe it's in The Subtle Knife, but I'm not certain, and don't have a copy to hand to be sure); that character doesn't appear in the first book, but later, when Lyra meets Will and ... I fineshed The Subtle Knife. Read Prince Caspian. Know Im reading A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.
#334 MrsG:
I loved The Subtle Knife. I hope you do, too! I'm glad to hear you liked Inkspell so much! I was thinking of reading that series by Jonathan Stroud before that, but I might just read it first. :) #331 MrsG:
I have Inkspell in my TBR pile. I can't wait to read it! Is The Subtle Knife a reread or first time read for you? :) I finished Inkspell. Know Im reading The Subtle Knife I think I like all the books in His Dark Materials for different reasons--but The Subtle Knife definitely does have the qualities of both other books to a certain extent, and of course it ends on a suspenseful note rather than a concluding note of conclusion. ... lady but there is strong and indepedent and then there is rude and somewhat obnoxious. Unlike most people I really liked the subtle knife which is the middle book best of all. Maybe its because it is the book in which we meet Will, the "hero" of the series. He was also a child and he was ... I finished The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman which was the 2nd book of the trilogy (will read last one soon). I started and finished Nim's Island by Wendy Orr. I wanted to read this short childrens book before seeing the movie. It's really a cute story! I have now started Circle Of Qui ... Hi Judy and Trish!
The Subtle Knife was my favourite of the three too!! It just zipped along nicely and kept my interest throughout (1 and 3 I had no problem putting down to do other things: I do a lot of reading at work as I work at an order desk where I'm the one calling customers for orders ... ... over some of the stuff you are reading or have read and I really like your selections. By the way I agree with you on The Subtle Knife. Everyone told me that they liked this one the least of the trilogy but I found it to be very entertaining with a very well fleshed out story. It was ... 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 ... ... 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!) 3. Emma
4. The God of Small Things
5. The Golden Compass
6. the subtle knife
7. the amber spyglass ... Patterson
2. Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton
3. Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
4. The Subtle Knife & The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman
5. Measuring the World by Daniel Kehlmann
8. Lucas by Kevin Brooks in Hungarian
9. The Subtle knife (A titokzatos kés) by Philip Pullman in Hungarian Finished Eventide - very good. Have just started The Subtle Knife. ... Expectations
Children's Books;
The Story of Tracy Beaker (Read)
Twilight
Watership Down
Black Beauty
The Subtle Knife
Non-fiction;
Judging Dev
Kings of September
Musicophilia
Every Single Ball
Recommendations;
Anna Karenina
Tess of the d'Urbervilles ... Finally finished The Subtle Knife, which was pretty good. Started on my B&N Advance copy of The Sister by Poppy Adams. Finally finished The Subtle Knife and it was pretty good! only one more to go in the series!! But first...I need to read my Advanced copy I got from B&N The Sister. I'm about 60 pages into The Subtle Knife by Phiilip Pullman. Several friends have been after me to read the series 9and no, I've haven't seen the TGC movie. I'm also working my way through Does This Clutter Make My Butt Look Fat? by Peter Walsh, and interesting take on a possible connection ... 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 ... ... )
3. Stephenie Meyer - Eclipse
3. Anne Rice Interview with the vampire
To be read:
1. Philip Pullman - The Subtle Knife
2. Jane Austen - Emma
3. Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre
4. Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights
5. Martin Zusak - De Boekendief ( The Book Thief )
6. ... the subtle knife ? The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman
Beauty by Robin McKinley
All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot ... was supposed to read it for a faculty book discussion and didn't make it. I am really 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 ... ... will try the next book, Invader. I am also curious to see how Bren's relationships with various Atevi develop.
6. The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman *****
A reread. I'm enjoying this series just as much as the first time I read it. The Dust brings to mind the energy particles that ... ... Robot, Isaac Asimov (Sci-fi)
5-2. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte (Chick lit)
5-3. Uglies, Scott Westerfield (YA)
5-4. The Subtle Knife, Philip Pullman (Fantasy)
5-5. Negima: Volume 1, Ken Akamatsu (Manga)
5-6. The Boat, Nam Le (Short stories)
5-7. ... rarything.com/work/3669211'>here)
4: Dune (here)
8: The Subtle Knife
17: A Confederacy of Dunces
24: Fight Club: A Novel
32: Breakfast of champions
36: Twilight (Irisheyz77 in Reading Globally : Irish Travels Around the World (Mar 1, 2008, 2:07pm) ... Century)
Something from the Nightside by Simon R. Green (London)
Stardust by Neil Gaiman (Wall, 19th Century)
The Subtle Knife by Phillip Pullman (Oxford, 19th Century)
4. Haiti
Vale of Tears by Paulette Poujol Oriol (Port-au-Prince, 20th Century)
5. Iran< ... ... 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 Finished The Subtle Knife maybe a week ago. Started slow, but then really got good.
The Shadow Year by Jeffrey Ford, an ER book, several days ago. I thought it was pretty good, but I probably won't be reading his work again. There are just so many delicious authors to try and he's just a ... ...
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
His Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman
The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman
Service Included by Phoebe Damrosch
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Sabriel by Garth Nix
E ... ... as I tend to reread certain books every year.
Anyway here goes:
1. The Golden Compass by Phillip Pullman
2. The Subtle Knife by Phillip Pullman
3. The Amber Spyglass by Phillip Pullman
4. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
5. The Girl with the pearl earring by Tracy ... ... non-fiction list -- I repeat, that's the non-fiction list -- opens with (wait for it...) Philip Pullman's The Subtle Knife. Other items include Henry VI, Part 1 (23), and The Black Tulip (28, no touchstone) ... That's how old I was when I first read The Golden Compass, and I found it pretty confusing and wasn't inspired to read The Subtle Knife when it came out. But I like to think I was mature....
On the bright side, I think this means that The Subtle Knife was the book that had been on my TB ... After reading The Subtle Knife I decided that I would leave in our library but I would not recommend to anyone who isn't a mature sixth grader who is already reading a lot of similar fiction. It really isn't for younger children but is definitely YA and up. 7. The Subtle Knife. Like The Golden Compass, I felt like I didn't enjoy it as much as I should have, and I'm not sure why. ... half of them. I figure the ridigity of that one balances nicely with the extreme flexibility of this one.
Also, I read The Subtle Knife. I don't know why I didn't like it more; there were parts that were really good, but other parts seemed to drag. It also made me wonder about what ... Rereading The Subtle Knife. Just what I need, light and easy to sink into. I am trying to get through The Amber Spyglass right now, but I'm really losing speed on it. I loved The Subtle Knife, but this one just seems a kind of let down after that.
Next up: Sergei Lukyanenko's Night Watch. My friends have been gushing about the whole series, so I'm hoping it'll ... Best fiction, new reads: The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman, Pixel Juice by Jeff Noon. I liked the other two books in His Dark Materials, but The Subtle Knife was my favourite.
I have bests that I re-read this year too, including the Vurt series (all four books) by Noon and Heart of Darkness ... Heh, lots of people reading Philip Pullman this week. I've just started rereading The Subtle Knife. ... in this book that makes it enjoyable to read all the way to end!!
Now going to read Book 2 of 'His Dark Material' series The Subtle Knife ... ... The Unforgiven by Patricia MacDonald...really a good mystery/thriller that had interesting twists!!! Now on to The Subtle Knife book 2 of the Dark Material series...Loved the Golden Compass so shall be interesting to read!
Just finished The Subtle Knife, and loved it as much as The Golden Compass. I'm on my way right now into the other room to start The Amber Spyglass. Definitely didn't go wrong with this series :) 4. Fantasy
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... would have liked when I was fifteen
a. Postsingular by Rucker
b. Northern Lights by Pullman
c. The Subtle Knife by Pullman
d. The Amber Spyglass by Pullman
e. True Names... and other dangers by Vinge
f. Rainbows' End by Vinge
g. Special Topics ... ... from a meeting to find a box on my desk. In the box was:
Nightwatch by Sergei Lukyanenko
The Golden Compass
The Subtle Knife
The Amber Spyglass
A Man Lay Dead - Ngaio Marsh
Anonymous Lawyer - Jeremy Blachman
So, of course, I just want to go home now. Maybe I'll ... Just finished The Golden Compass, and already eagerly starting The Subtle Knife. These books were exactly what I was in the mood for, so I guess I picked well from my massive TBR pile :) Out Stealing Horses by Per Patterson was really really good.
others:
2. Measuring the World by Daniel Kehlmann
3. The Subtle Knife or The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman - take your pick, they go together. ... Bach
Reading the Past
Seventy Great Mysteries of the Ancient World
The Study of Greek Inscriptions
The Subtle Knife
Brave New World
The Ends of the Circle
Valiant
Ka
28: Stories of AIDS in Africa
King John of Canada
The Secret History
Alte ... I was very bad yesterday. I ordered:
The Golden Compass
The Subtle Knife
The Amber Spyglass
Anonymous Lawyer - Jeremy Blachman
An American Childhood - Annie Dillard
A Man Lay Dead - Ngaio Marsh*
The Echo - Minette Walters
No Other Tribute (it's research for my writing ;-)
... ... by Gustave Flaubert
An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
The Golden Compass, The Amber Spyglass, and The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman
Interesting that all the book touchstones are working, but none of the authors...
edited to fix a bad title. "The Subtle Knife" ... 33. The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman. ... me wanting more! I am currently working on Plum Wine for book club this weekend. Hope to fiinish soon so I can start The Subtle Knife! ... ng
10. Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade
11. Lord John and the Hand of Devils
12. The Golden Compass
13. The Subtle Knife
14. The Amber Spyglass
15. Straight Man
16. Empire Falls
17. Bridge of Sighs
18. Fleshmarket Alley
19. Crime School
20. The Floating Gir ... This week I have bought Atonement, The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife and The Alchemyst.
Atonement was a nice read, and the first chapter of the Golden Compass was good! No comments on the other two books yet.
I thought I would never become a lover of the fantasy genre, but it seems ... I just finished listening to Rose Tremain's The Colour, and reading The Subtle Knife. Now I am almost finished The Lost Thoughts of Soldiers by Delia Falconer and will start listening to Fragile Things by Neil Gaiman. What's next to read . . . who knows . . . I have so many to ... 9. The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman
I enjoyed this one more than the first. According to the majority of the reviews, it should have been the other way, but I guess I didn't follow the crowd on that one! I felt that the story had more substance, it had more layers than the first and the ... read Subtle Knife and now I'm in the middle of The Amber Spyglass.
I'm in some kind of reading funk, and cannot figure out what the heck I want to read. Everything seems to be the wrong book. Fortunately, His Dark Materials doesn't take a lot of effort to get into, except for the mulefa ... 5. The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman: Review.
Quite good. Ready to start the last book of the trilogy. I just finished The Subtle Knife. Very good, although obviously a t |
