Friday, September 11, 2015
The Golden Compass:His Dark Materials by: Philip Pullman
Lyra Belacqua is content to run wild among the scholars of Jodan College, with her daemon familiar always by her side. But the arrival of her fearsome uncle, Lord Asriel, draws her to the heart of a terrible struggle—a struggle born of Gobblers and stolen children, witch clans and armored bears. And as she hurtles toward danger in the cold far North, Lyra never suspects the shocking truth: she alone is destined to win, or to lose, this more-than-mortal battle.
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This book had as much action as the movie and the author did a great job with details. I think the movie and the book had a good amount of things in common. I would recommend this book to action readers and adventure readers as well.
ReplyDeleteI have never read the book, but I did see the movie. One thing I always wondered was, are the polar bears the only animals that are not attached to a human? Or does the story simply never delve into those details?
DeleteThe animals are the souls of the humans. The snow bears have their souls inside their body. The movie also removed the last fifty pages of the book, so that it would have a more happy ending.
DeleteThat is interesting, thank you. Are the polar bears the only animals that have souls inside their bodies? I would assume not, how else would they get meat to eat?
DeleteOnly humans have daemons, snow bears are the only other intelligent beings, if the daemon is destroyed, the creature dies, and leaves its body. If the creature dies another way, the daemon is destroyed.
DeleteThis book is really quite stunning. How someone could come up with a universe like this, daemons, Dust, ice bears, is truly brilliant. It is not hard to imagine why Pullman received so many awards for this series. The writing is complex enough that it stays interesting, but isn't too much so as to be labled a "difficult read". There were only a few words which I genuinely had to look up when I was reading this.
ReplyDeleteThe characters were also I really great part of the story, the fact that the female protagonist wasn’t particularly skillful, attractive or independent, but stubborn, and sometimes outright bratty, was a really fresh way of telling a story, I liked it. I also like that the human world that Lyra grew up in is allot like ours geographically, but very much different religiously, politically, and well, anatomically.
Gordon, Good post with some detail. Try to give more reaction to the writing and your reactions to it .
ReplyDeletewow a lot of righting good job.
ReplyDeleteI read thios a few years ago and am re-reading it because I'm reading the whole series. There is a lot of story that I missed, and the writing is truly amazing. I like the feel of the protagonist, it is actually believable that she is 13 or so, which I think the book implied.
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