4.5 ⭐️„Тъмните му материи“ е страхотна фентъзи трилогия! Въпреки че историята привидно е детска, тя всъщност е изпълнена със смислени послания за хора на всякаква възраст. Филип Пулман елегантно е съчетал приказна атмосфера и фантастични елементи. Според мен, „Северно сияние“ е брилянтен роман и най-силната част от поредицата, но и останалите две книги също много ми допаднаха. Потопете се в изключително любопитните и вълнуващи приключения на Лира и останалите ярки персонажи в различни светове - ...

Northern Lights (5 stars) The Subtle Knife (5 stars) The Amber Spyglass (3.5 stars)Some spoilery musings on the series and the HBO adaptation:- Lord Asriel is just as much intimidating, cool adventurer uncle as I remember him, and up to now he's only been described as “a tall man with powerful shoulders, a fierce dark face, and eyes that seemed to flash and glitter with savage laughter” which leaves open the question of where Lyra got her hair color from.- Ah yes, this is what they got...

I can't believe I had never reread this series! Such a fascinating world, such a good story!

In just under a month La Belle Sauvage (The Book of Dust #1) will be released, so I thought I’d do a summative review of my experience with this trilogy. Here’s what I thought of each book, I read them over a period of four years and my reviews are what I thought at the time; they’ve not been edited since: Book 1: The Golden Compass- 5* This novel is an absolute work of pure genius, and is in my top ten reads of all time. Before I go into the depths of character and plot, let me start by say...

So, this is a bind up of all three books in this series and it's a reread for me. I first read these when I was very young (maybe 11/12) and I remember absolutely loving them. This still remains true to this day and they are excellent books the second time through too. Also, being 10 years older now than when I first read it helped me to notice a lot more of the subtle references to religion, souls, sex, body image and so on. None of these were things I was even considering when I was young, but...

The first sentence that came to my mind after finishing this book was: anyone who would give this novel less than five stars has to be either a philistine, a charlatan, or a cynic. To add to that: a cynic grown so dull with the slop of the world that they have been rendered unable to see the raw charm of these characters Lyra and Will, and the amazing sad kind of beauty that comes with making the irreversible passage from childhood to adulthood. Pullman is able to weave together in the thread of...

I read these three books to and with my child a few years after they were published. By the second and third, kiddo was waking up early and reading ahead. So I had to read further ahead because some of the vocabulary and philosophical and theological issues were huge for a child of seven or eight. We had some fantastic discussions as a result, and they nurtured a budding love of fantasy that probably started with The Hobbit (see my review HERE) and Harry Potter, which we read around the same tim...

Day late and a dollar short with this one.My hope was to have read and reviewed His Dark Materials trilogy before the film adaptation of the first third, The Golden Compass, came out last Friday. And I would have too - if it weren't for that sheer enormity of suckiness that was the third book in the series (The Amber Spyglass). *sigh* But then, life doesn't actually work out perfectly for us as often as we'd like. Sometimes there are earthquakes that level cities in Turkey. Sometimes Spinach is ...

Until recently, this series had somehow flown under my radar. It wasn’t until I saw the trailer for the upcoming The Golden Compass movie that I was introduced to Lyra’s world. The trailer made the movie look AMAZING, so naturally (as I always do), I thought…”I MUST read this book!”. His Dark Materials creates a beautiful, vibrant world with characters as deep as if you had known them your whole life. The books themselves deal with heavy subjects. Nuclear Physics, Parallel Worlds, Quantum Partic...

Could you imagine a story that weaves history, quantum physics, theology, cosmology, trepanning, shamanism, love and the seriousness of adolescence into a coherent narrative? I could not. Yet Phillip Pullman has done just that, and a world more. This wonderful trilogy will lead you along a most unlikely path through some of the biggest questions of life - in philosophy, religion, history, science, and not least literature. That it does so as a masterful, child-accessible and wholly engaging stor...