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   From: hayesmstw@hotmail.com   
      
   On 2 Oct 2004 12:47:39 -0700, lisand@bredband.net (Lisbeth Andersson) wrote:   
      
   >weiler214@hotmail.com wrote in message news:<8ac4498e.041002011   
   .8f2ee2d@posting.google.com>...   
   >   
   ><...>   
   >>   
   >> The Trilogy   
   >>   
   >> Northern Lights, the first book in the trilogy, was published in 1995   
   >> (published in America as The Golden Compass) and tells the story of   
   >>   
   ><...>   
   >> In the second novel of the series, The Subtle Knife, the plot   
   ><...>   
   >>   
   >> The third and final part of Philip Pullman's trilogy, The Amber   
   >> Spyglass, which came out in November 2000, offers no such balance, but   
   ><...>   
   >>   
   >> "Far more worthy of the bonfire than Harry [Potter] . . . a million   
   >> times more sinister . . . Truly the stuff of nightmares. Catholic   
   >> Herald."   
   ><...>   
   >   
   >Thank you for bringing this authour to my attention. I shall put the books   
   >on my "to read"-list. I do hope it can live up to the reviews, "worthy of   
   >the bonfire" does raise the expectations a lot and I suspect that the   
   >author cannot really deliver books that deserves that accolade. It will be   
   >fun finding out though.   
      
   The first two are quite good, as children's fantasy literature goes.   
      
   The third degenerates into a religious rant, and ends up being contradictory.   
      
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