Dark Materials
Philip Pullman
The Jordan College Lyra's day used to pass peacefully. A routine interrupted only by visits from her uncle Lord Asriel. Always full of beautiful experiments, on the last occasion Asriel had managed to surpass himself. While exploring Lapland, his wonderful camera had captured the Northern Lights ... But beyond the desolate landscape, suspended in the air was a beautiful city. Lyra someday walk on the Northern Lights.
I came to this book almost by accident. I've always had an ear to the issues that cause controversy in the church, more for entertainment than anything else, and around those days was in film premiering the first part of this trilogy: The Golden Compass. The church had already labeled as not recommended and prepared to make economic boycott (as if they had not learned enough of the case DaVinci). Total
that I already had his eye on top, but had no special interest, because I imagined that success would be based solely on reputation.
For this reason, I was thinking of novels like the typical youth novelucha adventures he had come to success thanks to some controversy in its content. Still, when my father gave him three books to my brother, I decided to keep an eye out for myself.
Actually, I was surprised. Very surprised.
The story was juvenile, yes, but it was impeccably presented, written with fluency and with an impressive script. The story has nothing to envy to any of the books "for adults" (and much less to the famous Dan Brown), and the pace of the novel kept me glued from the tenth to the last page of the last book. Another work of art, this time, rather than by description and feeling, narrative and rhythm. Moreover, contrary to what they usually do many series, the second and third book are even better than the first, keeping the voltage across more than 1300 pages with little or no "literary Plains", which is read more by inertia than interest.
About the controversy ... Bah. The film did not reflect anything at all, and the first book just painted a parallel church in the world with our own church in the 15th century. And it falls short, because it is a book for children.
In the next two books, the issue becomes a little more tense, but the world he paints is so clearly fantastic, anyone with a basic religious education or a bit of philosophy can give a word of credit. It is just fantasy, that the church says you can create misconceptions is as if the education ministry advised against Harry Potter because children may believe that their teachers are possessed, or who are werewolves.
In total, the better the controversy aside and consider this series as one of the most recent juvenile series. Is young, so I will not openly say that I recommend to everyone, but I sincerely doubt that anyone will really get bored with any of these books, very "adult" to be.
Rating: 8.5/10. (Average of the three books.)
Smiles.
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