The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials #1) Hardcover | Pages: 399 pages

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Original Title:	Northern Lights
ISBN:	0679879242 (ISBN13: 9780679879244)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	His Dark Materials #1
Characters:	Lyra Belacqua, Pantalaimon, Lord Asriel, Iorek Byrnison, Iofur Raknison, Marisa Coulter, Lee Scoresby, Roger Parslow, Serafina Pekkala, Hester, Farder Coram, John Faa, Billy Costa
Setting:	Oxford, England(United Kingdom)
Literary Awards:	Guardian Children's Fiction Prize (1996), Audie Award for Children's Titles (2000), Lincoln Award Nominee (2005), Carnegie Medal (1995)

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Lyra is rushing to the cold, far North, where witch clans and armored bears rule. North, where the Gobblers take the children they steal--including her friend Roger. North, where her fearsome uncle Asriel is trying to build a bridge to a parallel world. Can one small girl make a difference in such great and terrible endeavors? This is Lyra: a savage, a schemer, a liar, and as fierce and true a champion as Roger or Asriel could want--but what Lyra doesn't know is that to help one of them will be to betray the other.

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Title	:	The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials #1)
Author	:	Philip Pullman
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 399 pages
Published	:	April 16th 1996 by Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers (first published July 9th 1995)
Categories	:	Young Adult. Mystery. Fantasy. Romance. Paranormal

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fantastic. pullman introduces readers to his sophisticated world view slowly, and this first novel in the trilogy has an ideal narrative focal point in the mean little liar who is the protagonist. i have never seen lying in children portrayed so explicitly as a positive thing, and after this novel, i'm all for it! the settings are wonderfully strange and surreal yet rooted in an eventually understandable reality, and the supporting characters are oblique and enigmatic without being tiresome. the

2.5*I never read this as a kid and maybe I would have enjoyed it more if I had, but it was just okay for me!

March 2020: Looking at this again as we begin to see the tv series of His Dark Materials, which looks very good. I really liked the 2007 movie with Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig, wish that it had continued, heard the Catholic Church denouncing Pullman was part of it, dunno. We are continuing to read in this house the second trilogy.9/25/2020:This is a second reading of Pullman's classic, accomplished on vacation in a car, with the family, by listening to the 9 cd audio collection, with Phillip

Re-read, 11/4/19:I think I might have been a bit unfair to the book in my original review. Or maybe I was a bit disgruntled with YA literature in general at the time. Or maybe I was getting tired of the whole chosen one with the miraculous oracle bit driving the plot forward. But let's back up a bit here. In the particulars, I liked running around like an urchin. I did like all the Daemons. I liked growing up among all the academics. I liked running around and being a very English nuisance and

Rating: 3.5 starsListened to this on audio, which was a lot of fun!

i first read this when i was like 10 or 11 and i remember really liking it. i recently came across an online thread about this book/series and the message(s) the author was intending to convey, and i was taken aback. i honestly really didnt remember anything except for talking bears that wear armour. lol. after the reread, i am suprised that i read this as a child. this is definitely a childrens book that is not meant for children, in my opinion. the deeper meanings are pretty subtle but,

You cannot change what you are, only what you do. So Lyra and her daemon turned away from the world they were born in, and looked toward the sun, and walked into the sky.