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Would you recommend his dark materials?
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RE: Would you recommend his dark materials?
I enjoy young adult fiction, but found His Dark Materials to be a bit tedious and flat. The charachters never felt alive to me, they seemed kinda 2 dimensional and unengaging. The plot itself is alright, but without engaging characters to participate, I couldn't make myself care much.

I recommend:
Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb
Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss.

Both of these are marvelous fantasy series with engaging plots and characters. Name of the wind is still ongoing, but only has one book yet to come.
“Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end?” 
― Tom StoppardRosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
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Would you recommend his dark materials? - by snerie - June 8, 2017 at 2:33 pm
RE: Would you recommend his dark materials? - by John V - June 15, 2017 at 3:39 pm
RE: Would you recommend his dark materials? - by Aroura - June 9, 2017 at 2:52 am

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