His Dark Materials

Golden Compass was excellent, and I look foreward to reading the other two.

What an enriching post.

Those books are fail.

I fucking hate Harry Potter. Will I hate His Dark Materials?

Yes, His Dark Materials is fail.

DARK MATERIALS IS WIN.
  I enjoyed the second book the most.
    I recommend this book.

lol amerifags calling it the Golden Compass.

The superficial resemblance of protagonist Lyra Belacqua's alethiometer (depicted on the book's cover) to a large compass caused the North American publishers of Northern Lights to retitle the book The Golden Compass. In fact, The Golden Compasses was an early proposal for the name of the trilogy (instead of His Dark Materials), taken from Milton's Paradise Lost, where it refers to the drawing instrument, rather than the navigation instrument.

Basicaly: retarded american publishers.

>>7
I don't think anybody really gives a shit.

>>7

Yeah fuck them making the title have more appeal so they can sell some more books.  Those dumbfucks.

>>7
I dunno. The NA title does fit after a fashion. The 2nd and 3rd books are all named after the eponymous item that is used over the course of the story, so it makes a little sense for the first book to be named after the Aletheometer, even if it is misnamed as a "Compass."

>>6
I just finished Spyglass. Shit got real romantic real fast. Lol sex in a children's book.

The books are great and all, when you know what you're getting into. His Dark Materials was never that popular (relatively) around here, but with the movie coming out you just know people are going to backtrack and pick up the book.

The Golden Compass. Polar bears! Adventure! Fantasy! MAgic! Hooray!

But what happens after that? You're going to get some very confused/disappointed/mind boggled kids running around after they finish Amber Spyglass....

But... but... IT'S NOT A FREAKIN' COMPASS. Northern Lights is the more fitting title because it's the most important aspect of the book. There wouldn't be a sequal without the lights

>>9
Please explain how that title has more appeal than the real one?

>>9

Hell yeah!!1 Appealing to the young geographers of today!! suuuureee...

Because fantasy books with the title 'The', followed by a magical object name, are all the rage right now.  With the golden compass, you know it involves a magic compass of some sort.  Northern lights, who knows what thats gonna mean?  Not kids.

>>11
Seriously. Knife and Spyglass get into some pretty deep concepts. Not to mention that the entire series involves killing god and basically says "Religion is stupid, keeps you from living your life, and could end up getting you killed." Y'know that's not counting the scores of violent death that permeates the series that parents might object to.

Of course, that depends on whether Kids will get that far. I would think that only the most nerdy and book-loving kids will get past the parts with describing the Mulefa, even though I thought it was brilliant.

>>15
So is His Dark Materials like the athiest verison of Narnia?

>>16
Basically, yes. It pretty much out and out states that "Religion is stupid, God doesn't matter, can we get on with our lives please?" In the third book, one of the characters says, and I quote, "Christianity is a very convincing mistake, thats all." The religious view of the book ranges from the subtle, to the bludgeoningly obvious, like the above.

It also has guns, helicopters, Zeppelins, thinking with portals, and a vehicle that responds to brainwaves and shoots energy beams. It has that mashed up along with the usual talking animals and magic. All-in-all I'd vote for the His Dark Materials multiverse over the Narnia world any day.

>>17

Techically, Narnia exists within a multiverse setting-there's the Wood Between the Worlds, with a ton of puddles, each one going into another world. The witch from The Lion, The Witch, and Warobe used to exist in another world before coming into Narnia-verse.

I like Narnia as a story, and I'm sure I'll like His Dark Materials too once I get around to reading it (in school right now, not doing much leisure reading). I just try not to get too bogged down by the preaching. As an agnostic, I just try to understand people's views.

I like Jesus-Lions, but talking polar bears, guns, and helicopters sound fun too.

Congratulations for not understanding the book. They don't kill God jackasses. They kill the Authority, who is not, in fact, the Creator. He's only the first angel.

Pullman mislabels himself. He calls himself an atheist, but if you read his interviews and debates, he is very blatantly an agnostic.

>>19

They also don't kill him.

SPOILERS: Wind disintegrates him.