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Lyra Belacqua tries to prevent kidnapped children from becoming the subject of gruesome experiments, helps Will Parry search for his father, and finds that she and Will are caught in a battle between the forces of the Authority and those gathered by her uncle, Lord Asriel.
Jannes: Not for your average young reader of Pullman, I would imagine, but Milton is a great read if you want to get to the stuff that inspired His Dark Materials.
It's not as difficult a read as you would imagine, either, if you just give yourself some time to adjust to the style.… (meer)
This trilogy is marketed to younger readers, I suppose because it's a fantasy book and the protagonists are a boy and girl on the cusp of being teenagers. The themes of free will, the nature of the soul, and corruption of faith and power are rarely explored so thoroughly in any book, let alone in books for "children." Despite the more mature themes, the books are enjoyable because of strong characters, great villians, amazing alternative world building, thrilling action, and many moments that invoke real emotion. If you read this as a kid, I strongly suggest reading it as an adult.
One of Pullman's many incredible inventions here is that characters have an animal companion that represents their conscience and perhaps their soul. Not only does a particular animal give us a hint about a character, but the animals talk and the relationship one has with their "soul" can be tremendously affecting.
I'm not going to summarize the story except to say it starts out as a relatively simple fantasy adventure and eventually our heroes find themselves with crucial parts to play in an actual war between creation and it's creators. Along the way are magical items, wise witches, talking bear-kings, bad parents, soul-sucking specters, scientists who communicate with angels, and all manner of fantastic creatures. This is truly an incredible work of the imagination. ( )
Fighting a war with Heaven is always going to be epic. I don't feel like there were any slow parts. Lyra was awesome. I'd recommend to anybody, teen to adult. ( )
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
For The Golden Compass:
Into this wild abyss, The womb of nature and perhaps her grave, Of neither sea, nor shore, nor air, nor fire, But all these in their pregnant causes mixed Confusedly, and which thus must ever fight, Unless the almighty maker them ordain His dark materials to create more worlds, Into this wild abyss the wary fiend Stood on the brink of hell and looked a while, Pondering his voyage...
--John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book II
For The Amber Spyglass:
The morning comes, the night decays, the watchmen leave their stations; The grave is burst, the spices shed, the linen wrapped up; The bones of death, the cov'ring clay, the sinews shrunk & dry'd Reviving shake, inspiring move, breathing, awakening, Spring like redeemed captives when their bonds & bars are burst, Let the slave grinding at the mill run out into the field, Let him look up into the heavens & laugh in the bright air; Let the inchained soul, shut up in darkness and in sighing, Whose face has never seen a smile in thirty weary years, Rise and look out; his chains are loose, his dungeon doors are open; And let his wife and children return from the oppressor's scourge. They look behind at every step & believe it is a dream, Singing: "The Sun has left his blackness & has found a fresher morning, And the fair Moon rejoices in the clear & cloudless night; For Empire is no more, and now the Lion & Wolf shall cease."
--from "America: A Prophecy" by William Blake
O stars, isn't it from you that the lover's desire for the face of his beloved arises? Doesn't his secret insight into her pure features come from the pure constellations?
--from "The Third Elegy" by Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by Stephen Mitchell
Fine vapors escape from whatever is doing the living. The night is cold and delicate and full of angels Pounding down the living. The factories are all lit up, The chime goes unheard. We are together at last, though far apart.
--from "The Ecclesiast" by John Ashbery
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Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
Lyra and her daemon moved through the darkening hall, taking care to keep to one side, out of sight of the kitchen. (Northern lights)
Will tugged at his mother's hand and said, "Come on, come on..." (The subtle knife)
In a valley shaded with rhododendrons, close to the snow line, where a stream milky with melt-water splashed and where doves and linnets flew among the immense pines, lay a cave, half-hidden by the crag above and the stiff heavy leaves that clustered below. (The amber spyglass)
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Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
So Lyra and her daemon turned away from the world they were born in and looked toward the sun, and walked into the sky. (Northern lights)
Lyra Belacqua tries to prevent kidnapped children from becoming the subject of gruesome experiments, helps Will Parry search for his father, and finds that she and Will are caught in a battle between the forces of the Authority and those gathered by her uncle, Lord Asriel.
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* Het noorderlicht - We ontmoeten Lyra. Ze is opgegroeid zonder haar ware identiteit te kennen en leeft in een wereld die op die van ons lijkt, maar er zijn huiveringwekkende verschillen. Zo raakt ze betrokken bij de ontvoering van kinderen die worden gebruikt voor experimenten in de poolstreek.
Achtervolgd, verraden en meer dan eens aan zichzelf overgeleverd, leert Lyra hoe ze met het gouden kompas om moet gaan. Alleen met behulp van dit mysterieuze instrument kan ze de waarheid achterhalen. * Het listige mes - Will is twaalf jaar oud en heeft net een man vermoord. Nu is hij in zijn eentje, op de vlucht, en vastbesloten om de waarheid achter zijn vaders verdwijning te achterhalen.
Dan stapt Will door een raam in de lucht een andere wereld binnen, en daar vindt hij zijn metgezel Lyra - een wild, mysterieus meisje. Net als Will heeft ze een missie die ze het koste wat het kost wil voltooien.
Maar de wereld van Cittàgazze is een duistere en verwarrende plaats. Dodelijke, zielverslindende Spoken dwalen door de straten, terwijl hoog boven de stad de verre vleugelslagen van engelen weerklinken. En verscholen in de mysterieuze Torre Degli Angeli schuilt Cittàgazzes belangrijkste geheim: een object dat door mensen uit vele werelden zo begeerd wordt, dat ze ervoor zouden moorden... * De amberkleurige kijker - Will is de drager van het mes. Nu is het zijn taak om, vegezeld door engelen, dat machtige, gevaarlijke wapen naar Lord Asriel te brengen - zoals opgedragen door zijn stervende vader.
Maar hoe kan hij op zoek gaan naar Lord Asriel als Lyra verdwenen is? Alleen met haar hulp kan hij de vele obstakels en intriges doorgronden. De twee grote krachten van alle werelden bereiden zich voor op oorlog, en Will moet Lyra vinden, want samen zijn ze op weg naar de veldslag, een onontkomelijke reis die hen zelfs naar de wereld van de doden zal voeren...
One of Pullman's many incredible inventions here is that characters have an animal companion that represents their conscience and perhaps their soul. Not only does a particular animal give us a hint about a character, but the animals talk and the relationship one has with their "soul" can be tremendously affecting.
I'm not going to summarize the story except to say it starts out as a relatively simple fantasy adventure and eventually our heroes find themselves with crucial parts to play in an actual war between creation and it's creators. Along the way are magical items, wise witches, talking bear-kings, bad parents, soul-sucking specters, scientists who communicate with angels, and all manner of fantastic creatures. This is truly an incredible work of the imagination. ( )