His Dark Materials: The Golden Compass/The Subtle Knife/The Amber Spyglass with Map (His Dark Materials) |
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Philip Pullman
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Pages: 1312 (Hardcover)
Reading Level: Young Adult
ISBN: 0375842381
Pub: Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers
Pub date: 2007-08-28
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 7332
Reader Reviews:
Put Your Imagination to Work (0/0 people found this helpful)
In a visual world it is all too easy to let others take over your imagination. You accept other peoples' visions as your own. It is convenient, easy, saves your effort but in effect makes your creative abilities go first numb and then dead. This is a book which may help re-awaken what you might have forgotten ever having. Or what you never had, brought up in front of a TV screen.
It would be a spoiler to give out any hints about the content - anyway, it is too complex to be summed up in a review in any but a ridiculous way. The important part is that Pullman creates a whole new world in his book, a world at an angle to ours and he gives you a chance to join him in the trip this book is, imagining the world he describes. If the book had nothing more to offer (and it is hardly the case) this alone would make it a perfect choice.
I could never understand why Harry Potter became a world bestseller and Pullman lagged behind. Let's hope that the movie and general interest that follows will give Pullman the place he has always deserved.
worth getting (5/5 people found this helpful)
I like hardback copies of books, certainly those I want to keep and re-read.
I didn't want to have all 3 books in one volume, so this, the US version of the trilogy was the only 3 separate books, hard back version, available when I ordered (late nov 2007).
- its well printed, on good quality paper, in a slip case, sealed & came with a free map. Well worth £25 odd.
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