His Dark Materials

Sailor_InuyashaMon · Very bored Joined: 27 Jan 2005 Posts: 127

Wondering if anyone has ever heard of the series of "His Dark Materials" by Phillip Pullman (The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife & The amber Spyglass) ^_^

I read the 1st & 2nd (Love them!) but no one in my smaall pitiful town has the 3rd one. Most tell me the 3rd one was not satisfying to them because of the big ending. WTF?

Rindi_chan · Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 8:18 pm Post subject:

I liked the third book more than the second one, at least. Maybe that's because there was more of Lyra than there had been in The Subtle Knife. XD I did like the ending to the series, but the first book will always be my favorite. There were just so many awesome characters in that one! *_*

Sailor_InuyashaMon · Very bored Joined: 27 Jan 2005 Posts: 127

The 1st one was my favourite as well. I loved the bear & the ending surprised me. Never saw that coming.

hikari0205 · Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2005 7:00 am Post subject:

[quote="Rindi_chan (Rindi)"] I liked the third book more than the second one, at least. Maybe that's because there was more of Lyra than there had been in The Subtle Knife. XD [/quote]
Laughing

That's the reason I liked the 3rd one .. but yeah I love all 3 books ^^

Raku_and_Ji-chan_Supporter · Rookie Joined: 05 Apr 2005 Posts: 35

I loved all of those books. The third one especially, though I don't know why. I just hate it when good things end, and that was a good thing. Just my opinion though.

bansheeblue13 · Very bored Joined: 22 Aug 2005 Posts: 198

I accidentally read the second book first, then the third book, and then the first. For some reason I really liked the second book the most b/c of the interaction btw Lyra and Will...they had a real sense of teamwork...and Will's story was so sad!

Sailor_InuyashaMon · Very bored Joined: 27 Jan 2005 Posts: 127

Lyra & Will's teamwork made me think why can't some people in the world be like them... dunno why though but... yeah. ^_^

Doom_Bug · Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2006 4:49 am Post subject:

I loved those three books. I mostly loved the character of the bear king, the real one, can't remmber what his name is but I thought he was especially kool, even though I enjoyed all three books enormously!
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Astri · Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2006 2:14 pm Post subject:

I liked the first two a lot, but the third let me down. It just kind of...went. It was building up to this grand climax type thing, but it just didn't live up to its own expectations. Although I have to admit, I liked his idea of death. I wouldn't want to go there, but I liked what he did with it. It was so sad... Sad

Of the other two, the first one was probably my favorite, although I did like the second one a great deal as well. The witches were cool.
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hikari0205 · Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2006 12:24 pm Post subject:

: O

I actually finished the 3rd book today! I loved the ending, though I was sad to see it end but I loved all of the books. They were showing it in theatre in London recently. I wanted to see it but couldn't Sad

stippie · Very bored Joined: 18 Aug 2004 Posts: 237

i totaly luuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuv thayt book, the seconed one was the best, when will's father died screemed out loud 'NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!' Crying or Very sad

and everybody was like 'OMG! what happened to you?!' Shocked

Alpha_zero · Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 8:34 am Post subject:

Lol, They were good until about half-way through the Amber Spyglass when I got bored Razz

Then I moved onto HitchHikers series. Much mroe light-hearted. I've never really gone back to HDM. Ah well.

stippie · Very bored Joined: 18 Aug 2004 Posts: 237

you should go on, the beggining is boring, but the end is amazing.

Alpha_zero · Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 8:43 am Post subject:

Lol dwarf angels made me laugh. Yeah I could imagine Pullman pulling off a good ending, but his style makes depresses me. Not sure why.

stippie · Very bored Joined: 18 Aug 2004 Posts: 237

i said the end was amazing, not good. Crying or Very sad

but it's beautiful, now i want to read lyra's oxford, it's about lyra a couple of years after the amber spyglass.

ShadowTime · Newb Joined: 19 Feb 2007 Posts: 21

Phillip Pullmans supposed to be bringing out more, as Lyra's Oxford just opened up loads more possibilities. Plus their were loads of sneaky side hint references to all the characters. (look at all the pullouts and study them closely) Rolling Eyes

stippie · Very bored Joined: 18 Aug 2004 Posts: 237

i can't wait for the movie.