I have been sucked in by Philip Pullman’s trilogy His Dark Materials
I typically prefer to read the book before I go to the film version of a story and this is the case with The Golden Compass. It all started out innocently enough; I decided to read the book and once finished planned to see the move. I read the book and was totally sucked in! I did see the movie after completing the first book and I was disappointed.
The movie would have been better if they had tried to cut more of the story out or had made a 2+ hour film. The problem was that they tried hard to jam as much as they could in the 113 minutes they had. The scenes were too short and the story seemed jumpy, it was hard to follow even with my short attention span. The end result was a movie that had a lot of eye candy but a story line that disappointed. Another bad decision that got me a little wound up was the fact that they cut the whole last chapter out of the movie. This was a great setup for the next book and I believe it should have been in the movie. Maybe they knew there would not be a second movie???
Fortunately for me the movie letdown did not end things. I jumped right into the second book, The Subtle Knife and hardly put in down. I completed Book Two Superbowl Sunday and just got my hands on the third book, The Amber Spyglass. I am going to dive into Book Three tonight and will not be surprised if I complete it this weekend.
Philip Pullman’s whole trilogy His Dark Materials trilogy is just fun to read and I recommend it to anyone who likes a fun book but be warned, it will suck you in too.
February 5th, 2008 at 9:08 pm
My son just recently finished all of them and loved them. I haven’t read them in a number of years, but I recall really enjoying the stories. I’ve re-read book one, now I have to get around to reading books two and three. Glad you enjoyed!