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eor18. Philip Pullman "The Subtle Knife"
I finished Philip Pullman's "The Subtle Knife" last night. It has been a while since I read "The Golden Compass", but it wasn't too hard to pick the plot back up in this volume. It might just be the vagaries of memory, but I think "The Golden Compass" was better. I felt like the author was dragging the characters through plot just to get to the right setup at the end of the book. So yeah, almost 300 pages on an escalator passing by dioramas. It would make a stunningly pretty movie. In this book, the series is explicitly revealed as the anti-Narnia. Everyone is headed to the anti-Lion's land now and the third book will no doubt deliver the last, errr, the big battle.
So, not thrilled. Maybe I should go back and read "The Golden Compass" again and see if I just missed the clunkiness in that one because I was dazed by shiny things.
I finished Philip Pullman's "The Subtle Knife" last night. It has been a while since I read "The Golden Compass", but it wasn't too hard to pick the plot back up in this volume. It might just be the vagaries of memory, but I think "The Golden Compass" was better. I felt like the author was dragging the characters through plot just to get to the right setup at the end of the book. So yeah, almost 300 pages on an escalator passing by dioramas. It would make a stunningly pretty movie. In this book, the series is explicitly revealed as the anti-Narnia. Everyone is headed to the anti-Lion's land now and the third book will no doubt deliver the last, errr, the big battle.
So, not thrilled. Maybe I should go back and read "The Golden Compass" again and see if I just missed the clunkiness in that one because I was dazed by shiny things.
