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02-14-2017, 11:48 PM | #1 | |
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Author Philip Pullman Announces A Follow-Up Trilogy To 'His Dark Materials'
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02-15-2017, 08:12 AM | #2 |
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I never really got the appeal of that trilogy. Everyone else just gushed over it and I thought it was simply ok at best and had trouble finishing it off. Different strokes, I guess.
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02-15-2017, 11:18 AM | #3 |
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Great books. Hopefully the follow-up will live up to the originals. My fave was the second book, oddly. The third book veered off in the latter half and the finale. Still, the ride was fun. I wasn't aware of his beef with the Catholic church, though I thought it was kinda funny when he killed off a major deity. A friend of mine who was in the early stages of her Christian period got grumpy about it. She's calmed down now I think. In fact, I think she denies she got grumpy. Lol. She has many fine points.
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02-15-2017, 11:43 PM | #4 |
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I love the serie but I have to admit I was not fond of Lyra in the first book, and the second book where the serie focuses on Will, the second protagonist, which I found more likable, and I was more driven to know what happens next. I have trouble rereading it though, because that means I have to endure Lyra in the first book.
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02-16-2017, 04:19 PM | #5 |
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Meh. I like the idea behind the first trilogy and I liked the first book and especially its ending. The second was alright and the third was a little meh but the trajectory of the trilogy was somewhat downward for me in quality as the story spiralled larger and larger, so I'm unsure of my interest in a new trilogy.
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02-18-2017, 08:31 AM | #6 |
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You are not alone there. I thought it started excellently but went down from there.
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02-23-2017, 06:33 AM | #7 |
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I enjoyed the trilogy, but not so much that I want more of the same.
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02-26-2017, 12:50 PM | #8 | |
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