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[shadowkat]

That cool daemon meme swiped from superplin.

His Dark Materials is amongst my favorite childrens fantasy novels. And in my opinion far better than some of its predecessors. Also amongst the few that feature a strong, independent, female heroine who is a little girl. Most of these books have boys - Narnia, Harry Potter, Earthsea, the Hobbit. It was Pullman's response to a lot of the themes he found troubling in the Narnia series.

Really looking forward to this film, far more actually than Harry Potter, or Spiderman.

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[embers-log.livejournal.com]

I'm going to request it from the library right this second!
Since I don't have kids I never really knew many of the children's books (I do hang at bookstores, but I am always in 'mystery')
So this will be fun to try something new, thanks... and I am also enjoying the daemon thing.

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

It takes a little while to get into, but be patient. The second book may well be my favorite of the series. I don't remember the third real well.
I gave mine to a friend for his birthday several years back - I was unemployed that year and it was the only thing he would let me give him.
I may get them again - for my neice to read when she gets older. Her parents are athesist/agnostics - so they may approve of it. She's tough to buy for b/c her parents are against anything that is commericial or branded. They don't let her watch tv for example and their television is high up and out of her line of vision.