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The Golden Compass Anniversary Edition

The Golden Compass Anniversary Edition

by Philip Pullman
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Random House Audio Publishing Group | October 24, 2006 | Audio Book (CD)

The arrival of Lyra's fearsome uncle, Lord Asriel, to Jordan College draws her to the heart of a terrible struggle-a struggle born of Gobblers and stolen children, witch clans and armored bears. As she hurtles toward danger in the far North, young Lyra never suspects the shocking truth…

Philip Pullman's award-winning The Golden Compass is a masterwork of storytelling and suspense, critically acclaimed and hailed as a modern fantasy classic. And now, found archival documents, written by Philip Pullman and hand lettered and illustrated by Ian Beck, are included in this keepsake package for the first time ever.

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    Rating: 4/5

    Fantasy for Youth and Adults!

    Monica

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    11 months ago

    If it weren't for my book club, "The Golden Compass" is probably a book I would never have decided to read. I picked up a copy of the book from the library, only to have my 22 yr old daughter start it and tell me I was going to have to get another copy if I wanted to have it read in time for my next book club meeting. So I did...and I started reading with mixed feelings, wondering how a fantasy novel written for youth was going to capture my attention. Twenty pages in and I was hooked.

    I thought the language might be intended for younger readers, but it's really not...this book is well written and challenges you to think. With all the religious controversy that I heard about this book I was prepared for that aspect, but instead found myself not necessarily paying any attention to anything but the story that the author, Philip Pullman, is telling.

    To end this review: I loved "The Golden Compass"...I fell in love with the Lyra and her daemon, Pantalaimon...with the armoured bear, Iofur Raknison...with Farder Coram. I have the second and third book in the trilogy waiting for me...after the quick mystery that I decided to fit in first.

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    Rating: 5/5

    Eat your heart out CS Lewis!

    Luke Strople

    13 months ago

    Far from your typical wish-fulfillment type adventure story for children, in which an ordinary kid discovers he or she has been endowed with a magical weapon or power or whatnot, and sets out to become a hero - His Dark Materials is a series for youngsters with some real philosophical and existential meat to it. It is no mere magic sword or treasure map discovered by Lyra our wiley protagonist, nor the magical ability to fly or turn invisible. What she learns instead, is that her enigmatic Uncle is conspiring to wage war against God. What she finds to get her started on her journey - an instrument called an alethiometer which allows her to decipher the truth in all matters of cosmology and discourse.
    This is a story at it's heart about truth and free will -- the value of real human volition.

    This is no Percy Jackson and certainly no Narnia -- Hallelujah, Amen.

    Add to this impressive pseudo-Miltonian plot, this not-so morally cut and dried counter-thesis to CS Lewis' didactic Narnia series - a highly inventive Victorian steampunk fantasy world complete with airships, bow-wielding flying witches and a society of armour-sporting polar bears warring for dominance in the North Pole, and you've got yourself a pretty badass fantasy trilogy that children and adults seeking a more humanistic approach to fantasy will enjoy sinking their teeth into.

    Okay fine, most kids aren't going to read this for the treatise on doing away with church made fabrications about the afterlife in order to focus on bettering the world at our finger tips in the present -- the life we have in front of us right now, but I think they'll sure as hell enjoy the armoured Polar Bears. I most certainly did, and then some.

    I found the Golden Compass to be the most enjoyable installation, mostly for the physical distance covered in the actual journey and the compelling darkness of the ending. The Trilogy ends up playing out as an endorsement of free will over pious servitude. The fall of Adam and Eve is regarded by Pullman, as a positive event in mythology rather than the troublesome origin of all ill-fortune as is viewed by tradition. This is the kind of story most kids with devout church going parents will want to smuggle in from the library and read with a flashnight beneath the sheets at night.

    And don't watch the movie.
    It's crap.

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    Rating: 4/5

    Great!

    Hawk

    2 years ago

    The book was great! A bit too religious. First book.

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    Linda D.

    Rating: 5/5

    Charmed

    Linda D.

    12 years ago

    This book is made to be swallowed up by people of all ages. Read originally as a required text for a Children's Literature class, I certainly didn't think I would become so mesmerized by it. I quickly found myself wanting to read it constantly. It also made a three hour flight seem like I was barely in the air before I was arriving at my destination. I would suggest this book to people of all ages who like to keep guessing all the way to the end.

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The arrival of Lyra's fearsome uncle, Lord Asriel, to Jordan College draws her to the heart of a terrible struggle-a struggle born of Gobblers and stolen children, witch clans and armored bears. As she hurtles toward danger in the far North, young Lyra never suspects the shocking truth…

Philip Pullman's award-winning The Golden Compass is a masterwork of storytelling and suspense, critically acclaimed and hailed as a modern fantasy classic. And now, found archival documents, written by Philip Pullman and hand lettered and illustrated by Ian Beck, are included in this keepsake package for the first time ever.

About the Author

Philip Pullman is the Whitbread Award-winning author of the bestselling His Dark Materials: The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass, and Lyra''s Oxford. His books for young readers also include The Scarecrow and His Servant, I Was a Rat!, Count Karlstein, and Spring-Heeled Jack. In 2005, Pullman won the prestigious Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award in honor of the body of his work. To learn more about his books, please visit www.hisdarkmaterials.com. The author lives in Oxford, England.

Audio Book (CD)

6.51 x 6.09 x 1.25 in

October 24, 2006

Random House Audio Publishing Group

English


0739337041
9780739337042

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