In a landmark epic of fantasy and storytelling, Philip Pullman invites readers into a world as convincing and thoroughly realized as Narnia, Earthsea, or Redwall. Here lives an orphaned ward named Lyra Belacqua, whose carefree life among the scholars at Oxford's Jordan College is shattered by the arrival of two powerful visitors. First, her fearsome uncle, Lord Asriel, appear...
In a landmark epic of fantasy and storytelling, Philip Pullman invites readers into a world as convincing and thoroughly realized as Narnia, Earthsea, or Redwall. Here lives an orphaned ward named Lyra Belacqua, whose carefree life among the scholars at Oxford's Jordan College is shattered by the arrival of two powerful visitors. First, her fearsome uncle, Lord Asriel, appears with evidence of mystery and danger in the far North, including photographs of a mysterious celestial phenomenon called Dust and the dim outline of a city suspended in the Aurora Borealis that he suspects is part of an alternate universe. He leaves Lyra in the care of Mrs. Coulter, an enigmatic scholar and explorer who offers to give Lyra the attention her uncle has long refused her. In this multilayered narrative, however, nothing is as it seems. Lyra sets out for the top of the world in search of her kidnapped playmate, Roger, bearing a rare truth-telling instrument, the compass of the title. All around her children are disappearing—victims of so-called "Gobblers"—and being used as subjects in terrible experiments that separate humans from their daemons, creatures that reflect each person's inner being. And somehow, both Lord Asriel and Mrs. Coulter are involved.
In 1946, acclaimed author Philip Pullman was born in Norwich, England, into a Protestant family. Although his beloved grandfather was an Anglican priest, Pullman became an atheist in his teenage years. He graduated from Exeter College in Oxford with a degree in English, and spent 23 years as a teacher while working on publishing 13 books and numerous short stories. Pullman has ...
In 1946, acclaimed author Philip Pullman was born in Norwich, England, into a Protestant family. Although his beloved grandfather was an Anglican priest, Pullman became an atheist in his teenage years. He graduated from Exeter College in Oxford with a degree in English, and spent 23 years as a teacher while working on publishing 13 books and numerous short stories. Pullman has received many awards for his literature, including the prestigious Carnegie Medal for exceptional children's literature in 1996, and the Carnegie of Carnegies in 2006. He is most famous for his His Dark Materials trilogy, a series of young adult fantasy novels which feature free-thought themes. The novels cast organized religion as the series' villain. Pullman told The New York Times in 2000: "When you look at what C.S. Lewis is saying, his message is so anti-life, so cruel, so unjust. The view that the Narnia books have for the material world is one of almost undisguised contempt. At one point, the old professor says, 'It's all in Plato'—meaning that the physical world we see around us is the crude, shabby, imperfect, second-rate copy of something much better. I want to emphasize the simple physical truth of things, the absolute primacy of the material life, rather than the spiritual or the afterlife." He argues for a "republic of heaven" here on Earth.
In 2007, the first novel of the His Dark Materials trilogy was adopted into the motion picture The Golden Compass by New Line Cinema. Many churches and Christian organizations, including the Catholic League, called for a boycott of the film due to the books' atheist themes. While the film was successful in Europe and moderately received in the United States, the other two books in the trilogy were not be adapted into film, possibly due to pressure from the Catholic Church. When questioned about the anti-church views in His Dark Materials, Pullman explains in an interview for Third Way (UK): “It comes from history. It comes from the record of the Inquisition, persecuting heretics and torturing Jews and all that sort of stuff; and it comes from the other side, too, from the Protestants burning the Catholics. It comes from the insensate pursuit of innocent and crazy old women, and from the Puritans in America burning and hanging the witches—and it comes not only from the Christian church but also from the Taliban. Every single religion that has a monotheistic god ends up by persecuting other people and killing them because they don't accept him. Wherever you look in history, you find that. It's still going on" (Feb. 2002). Pullman has received many threats by ardent believers over his choice of subject matter.
最开始的 Lyra 让我想起 Arya / 齐集弑父恋父情节 / monstrous motherhood / “去北方”真是一个常见故事线 / East of the Sun West of the Moon / 个人认为从角色动机和性格角度来说有蛮多情节说不通的 说不通的时候往往就是 Alethiometer 登场的时候 / 更喜欢前半部的文笔
For the most part, I have seen this book been referred to as a children’s fantasy novel, and yes, it is predominantly a children’s story, the main protagonist Lyra, is very young, and the plot is quite simplistic for the most part being a fairly balanc...
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0 有用 saltypink 2021-01-27 21:23:30
最开始的 Lyra 让我想起 Arya / 齐集弑父恋父情节 / monstrous motherhood / “去北方”真是一个常见故事线 / East of the Sun West of the Moon / 个人认为从角色动机和性格角度来说有蛮多情节说不通的 说不通的时候往往就是 Alethiometer 登场的时候 / 更喜欢前半部的文笔
0 有用 Skarsgardism 2019-07-24 20:08:29
可能是因为很大一部分对话用了某种方言来写 读起来节奏怪怪的 书其实不长 结构也不复杂 就是跨不去这方言的坎啊
0 有用 SaraD. 2023-01-01 10:54:45 江苏
就很佩服脑子里有一个世界的人啊 ps有声书听的,朗读者们读的超棒!太喜欢了
0 有用 sirian 2020-12-17 03:45:32
作者好厉害, 可以写的如此老少皆宜. 童话但没有童话滤镜, 文风和世界观都好有质感.
0 有用 叮当想旅行 2020-01-04 15:23:14
3.5 作者的声音略浑浊。目前还没有遇到作者本人朗读自己作品的上乘有声书。
0 有用 浩星思光 2024-04-17 16:58:29 北京
有声书听完打卡。 结尾我一脸懵逼:怎么就突然亲上了?Daemon这个设定很有意思。
0 有用 SaraD. 2023-01-01 10:54:45 江苏
就很佩服脑子里有一个世界的人啊 ps有声书听的,朗读者们读的超棒!太喜欢了
0 有用 江湖雨子 2022-06-07 17:46:05
虽然是轻型纸但我还是要给五分
0 有用 YanDaguo 2022-03-03 23:08:13
最后结局突然有趣,所以大家到底想干啥哦好煎熬。不知道我关于教廷、sin和dust的隐喻猜得对不对,但是莫名觉得挺有趣的
0 有用 Morning 2022-01-14 13:59:07
pleasantly surprised