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3.79 AVERAGE
3.79 AVERAGE
È una bella storia, arricchita dal fascino di rivedere personaggi amati di Queste Oscure Materie e dal materiale di contorno, tra cui spiccano le illustrazioni vecchio stile e le lettere finali di Lyra.
Da comprare cartaceo. Io non l'ho fatto: essendomi fatto prestare La Oxford di Lyra sono anni che aspetto l'uscita del fantomatico libro su Will (per non parlare del Libro della Polvere!) nella speranza di comprare tutta la mini-trilogia in qualche cofanetto. Nel caso specifico ciò significa che il gioco da tavolo a cui si accenna alla fine purtroppo posso solo immaginarlo.
Da comprare cartaceo. Io non l'ho fatto: essendomi fatto prestare La Oxford di Lyra sono anni che aspetto l'uscita del fantomatico libro su Will (per non parlare del Libro della Polvere!) nella speranza di comprare tutta la mini-trilogia in qualche cofanetto. Nel caso specifico ciò significa che il gioco da tavolo a cui si accenna alla fine purtroppo posso solo immaginarlo.
adventurous
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
This story wasn't fleshed out enough for my enjoyment. The characters lacked development and I didn't think the plot was interesting. I read this before starting the original trilogy of this series and maybe that was a mistake, but if it takes place before those books, it should have packed more of a punch.
adventurous
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
dark
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Lee Scorseby is one of my favorite characters from the His Dark Materials trilogy, so I loved being able to read this short story about him, Hester, and Iorek
Listen, I would read /anything/ set in the HDM universe. That being said, this is definitely a book that deserves to be read by anyone who's read the rest of the series. Not only does it again reveal the truly incredible amount of worldbuilding Pullman put in to Lyra's world (I'm convinced he has an entire alternate-history timeline written out since AT LEAST the Protestant Reformation) but it keeps true to the characters and is a good story to boot. As another plus (?), it has one of the darkest descriptions of daemon-human interaction that I've read in any HDM material to date, including fanworks.
🐻❄️🤠🐇🤝❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
correct ISBN: 9780739367018
correct ISBN: 9780739367018
Have you read "His Dark Materials" a while back like I did? Do you miss that world like I do? Then read this novella and go back there for a little while longer.
"Nice piece of oratorical flamboyancy." (--Hester)
This book was a gift. I *love* the size and shape of it, its compactness, the cloth cover, the way it fits so perfectly with its companion book, Lyra's Oxford, which I perversely keep with my guidebooks rather than my other Pullman novels.
I am almost certain I would have liked the actual text better had I not been consumed with jealousy over the presentation. The story is less than 100 small pages long, directed at no obviously definable reader of any age, and is surely nonsensical in places to anyone who doesn't know His Dark Materials. For all the story's artistry it would not be considered publishable if it hadn't been written by, well, Philip Pullman. Yet because it is Pullman's, it is illustrated with beautiful woodcuts and appended with faked photographs of newspaper clippings, letters and an actual board game folded in a paper envelope in the back. I know that this beautiful little book was expensive to put together.
Lucky book. I am jealous.
It is mean and childish of me. And reduces my own pleasure in the reading, which should be great--I adore Pullman and this world of his. In spite of my jealousy, I want about five more of these beautiful little books with their discrete tales from the world of His Dark Materials so I can stack them up with the rest of my guidebooks.
This book was a gift. I *love* the size and shape of it, its compactness, the cloth cover, the way it fits so perfectly with its companion book, Lyra's Oxford, which I perversely keep with my guidebooks rather than my other Pullman novels.
I am almost certain I would have liked the actual text better had I not been consumed with jealousy over the presentation. The story is less than 100 small pages long, directed at no obviously definable reader of any age, and is surely nonsensical in places to anyone who doesn't know His Dark Materials. For all the story's artistry it would not be considered publishable if it hadn't been written by, well, Philip Pullman. Yet because it is Pullman's, it is illustrated with beautiful woodcuts and appended with faked photographs of newspaper clippings, letters and an actual board game folded in a paper envelope in the back. I know that this beautiful little book was expensive to put together.
Lucky book. I am jealous.
It is mean and childish of me. And reduces my own pleasure in the reading, which should be great--I adore Pullman and this world of his. In spite of my jealousy, I want about five more of these beautiful little books with their discrete tales from the world of His Dark Materials so I can stack them up with the rest of my guidebooks.
adventurous
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No