Title: The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, No 1)
Author: Philip Pullman
Average number of words per page: more than 100
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21 readers have rated this story.
Average story rating: 7.82/10.0
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Average illustration rating: 6.13/10.0
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Book review by: Mini-Me
age: 12Review submitted on 03/13/2008 at 14:08:24
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Mini-Me writes the following about The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, No 1) :
I thought The Golden Compass, by Phillip Pullman, was the best book I have ever read. It’s adventurous, enthralling, and suspenseful. It starts off with Lyra, a young, teenaged girl who is always ready for adventure, who learns and plays at Jordan College. She receives a golden compass from the Master of Jordan. But soon, she and her dæmon, Pantalaimon, travel to London, England with Mrs. Coulter, a unique woman with a golden monkey dæmon. Actually, for those of you who don’t know, a dæmon is a person’s soul. It is an outside soul, really, but only humans can have dæmons. That is one of the interesting parts of this trilogy.
Soon she is able to travel up North, where this book gets interesting. Here lies Dust, a particle discovered by explorers; but only found in the Aurora (Northern Lights). Dust comes from space. But really it unites universes together. Lyra’s uncle wants to destroy it, and make sure it doesn’t come back. Everybody is afraid of Dust, just as people are afraid of death. They do not know what it can really do…nobody does.
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