The Golden Compass

With all the fuss over the movie “The Golden Comapss” and the trilogy of books it comes from lately, I decided to read it myself, and so have put some other planned reading on hold for now.  As soon as I make time to finally finish the final Harry Potter book, I am going to start reading “His Dark Materials”, which I picked up in a 3 books in one paperback edition a couple weeks ago.

Has any one else read any of these 3 Philip Pullman books or plan to?

Jim

Re: The Golden Compass

Jim,

After reading that the movie was based on those books, I looked into them and actually, I am interested in reading them (I haven't seen the movie but just bought my grandson a video game based on it as I thought it better than the standard fare which I have seen him attracted to).  Hah, here I am judging it better and I know nothing about it.  Yet, I did peak at a trailer for the game and it seemed different and interesting.

I am buried in reading material but now reminded, I think I'll pick it up and once I start reading will come here to comment.

Deborah

Re: The Golden Compass

I've just re-read the first two books (I read them the first time when they first came out), and the third book is next on my reading list.  The first two (The Golden Compass and The Subtle Knife) were great, I thought.  They were very well-written and imaginative.  I also just saw the movie, and it sucked compared to the book.  They waaaaaay oversimplified the plot, left out key plot points, put things out of order, etc, you know, the regular movie adaptation slaughter of literature.  But the acting and special effects were good.   I don't feel qualified to comment on the trilogy as a whole, though, since I haven't read the last book.