Thread: His Dark Materials Trilogy

Cool, I was just gonna start a thread about these. They are being sold as a package deal at Borders and I was thinking about picking them up. Good gravy I haven't read anything except textbooks and journal articles in so long; hope I haven't forgotten how!

Pullman is bloody genius. I love this trilogy. Out of the 3 novels i'd say the 1st - Nothern Lights - is my favourite. That might even be my favourite book, it's def in the top 3 of my fav books. I tried some other of Phillip Pullman's but i forgot he's a children's writer and so i wouldn't really look into much else of his. Thing is HDM really didn't strike me as a children's novel, sure you could read it to young children but i felt it directly appealled to me when i read it and i was what 16? And i know adults who like it as well. It's def Pullman's lifetime masterpiece, hands down. Great read. recommend it

Wow I love His Dark Materials!!

Just curious - why does everyone hate Will? I liked him!! But Lyra was classic, and Pan was the best. Oh, and Iorek. I'm not quite sure Lee Scoresby was really relevant though, what big part did he play, other than to lead Will's father to Will??

I noticed that we never knew the name of the Golden Monkey. He was simply "The Golden Monkey". Yeah Asriel's was Stelamria or something wasn't it??

Yes the ending was sad...and what is Lyra's Oxford?? I wanna read it!!

Also about Asriel...remember how she thought he was her Uncle, and her father's last name was Belaqua? I think Asriel is his first name and Belaqua is his last name.

I love this trilogy so much! Now that I hear you all talking about them, I want to read these books again. But I don't think I've ever met anyone who read these books and didn't love them.

I thought it was an amazing trilogy even though i'm a christian. Though he does make a point of saying the authority wasn't god he just told the angels he was.

Northern Lights is the best just for the bear fight.
Though when I read the subtle knife I was in a plce called Praia De Luz in the south of Portugal. So for me that place was Cittagazze.

I thought it started out great with the first book, but to me they seemed to get weirder and stranger and the end was very weak . . . in my opinion. I found it hard to get wrapped up in the story in the last book. If he had simply kept to the rules of the fantasy world he set in the first one, it would have been great, but it seemed like he expanded them and made Lyra and Will go to places that were so outragous, I couldn't keep suspending my disbelief.

Aye I thought the end was a bit of a cop out, plus the way the authority died was a little crap.

The Metatron fight was awesom though.