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Would you recommend his dark materials?
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Would you recommend his dark materials?
So I am near finishing lord of the rings and I am looking for my next read and I heard his dark materials is like kinda like Narnia but with an atheist viewpoint. So now I just want to know If its a good book or not?
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RE: Would you recommend his dark materials?
I read the first one and was bored to tears.



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RE: Would you recommend his dark materials?
(June 8, 2017 at 4:35 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote: I read the first one and was bored to tears.

WHAT

I found His Dark Material to be fantastic.  I was absolutely enthralled.

That being said, I'm a fan of serial child/YA literature in general (ie Narnia, Chronicles of Prydain, Series of Unfortunate Events), so I was predisposed to it.

Also, if you want to talk boring, LOTR is... well, boring.  Very very good.  But very very boring.  They're not mutually exclusive.  (summary of 90% of Fellowship: the nine walked west, and the river lay in front of them.  They continued, and then the river was behind them, and they kept walking, for there were many miles to go and dozens more rivers to cross.)

(Another disclaimer:  His Dark Materials incorporates some imagery/content from Paradise Lost by John Milton.  I bought the two together (the HDM trilogy and Paradise Lost), and read Paradise Lost first.  I didn't find that boring at all.  So my boring meter might be wayyyy off)
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(June 8, 2017 at 4:58 pm)TheRealJoeFish Wrote: Also, if you want to talk boring, LOTR is... well, boring.

Heresy.
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RE: Would you recommend his dark materials?
My wife really liked it, but found the last book to be too much of a bummer...
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RE: Would you recommend his dark materials?
(June 8, 2017 at 4:58 pm)TheRealJoeFish Wrote:
(June 8, 2017 at 4:35 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote: I read the first one and was bored to tears.

WHAT

I found His Dark Material to be fantastic.  I was absolutely enthralled.

That being said, I'm a fan of serial child/YA literature in general (ie Narnia, Chronicles of Prydain, Series of Unfortunate Events), so I was predisposed to it.

Also, if you want to talk boring, LOTR is... well, boring.  Very very good.  But very very boring.  They're not mutually exclusive.  (summary of 90% of Fellowship: the nine walked west, and the river lay in front of them.  They continued, and then the river was behind them, and they kept walking, for there were many miles to go and dozens more rivers to cross.)

(Another disclaimer:  His Dark Materials incorporates some imagery/content from Paradise Lost by John Milton.  I bought the two together (the HDM trilogy and Paradise Lost), and read Paradise Lost first.  I didn't find that boring at all.  So my boring meter might be wayyyy off)

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RE: Would you recommend his dark materials?
Yes, I have immense nostalgia for it as I read it when I was the same age as the protagonists (give or take) in the books and it made it all the more magical for me.

I loved them and still do, personally.
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I strongly recommend Ransom Riggs' 'Miss Peregrine' series. The film was abortive rubbish, but the novels are a surprisingly good first effort for a novelist. Unsettling photographs, no extra charge.

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Never heard of these. I do not read much fiction. Just now downloaded the trilogy. Starting "The Golden Compass" now....
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RE: Would you recommend his dark materials?
I saw the movie The Golden Compass.

Does that count?
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