Originally Posted by CRussel
Last call for The Golden Compass. After all, we should all have read Candide in our youth (at least I can't imagine getting through school without it), but I'll bet most of you haven't read Philip Pullman's highly readable and controversial Dark Materials trilogy, of which Golden Compass is the first. And yes, it is more pages than Candide, but it's hardly a long book at well under 400 pages. And IME, it goes fast. Plus there's a superb audio version for those who wish to read it that way.
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