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juldeaI just finished The Subtle Knife. Pullman really knows how to build a trilogy.
Think of the quintessential Trilogies out there. Star Wars, LotR, even Dragonlance counts. Book 1 ends with the winning of a minor battle, a call to arms, the characters making resolutions to Set Out and Do Something. Then you get book 2, and at the end there's just depression and despair. Someone's dead or injured, everyone's split up, the goal is out of focus, hope is hard to come by... How in the world will they ever get through this, Mr. Frodo?!
Subtle Knife was much better than Golden Compass. Now I'm going to go right into Amber Spyglass because I am on the edge of my seat. I pity those who had to wait three years between the books originally.
I'll leave you with this: "There are two great powers," the man said, "and they've been fighting since time began. Every advance in human life, every scrap of knowledge and wisdom and decency we have has been torn by one side from the teeth of the other. Every little increase in human freedom has been fought over ferociously between those who want us to know more and be wiser and stronger, and those who want us to obey and be humble and submit."
Think of the quintessential Trilogies out there. Star Wars, LotR, even Dragonlance counts. Book 1 ends with the winning of a minor battle, a call to arms, the characters making resolutions to Set Out and Do Something. Then you get book 2, and at the end there's just depression and despair. Someone's dead or injured, everyone's split up, the goal is out of focus, hope is hard to come by... How in the world will they ever get through this, Mr. Frodo?!
Subtle Knife was much better than Golden Compass. Now I'm going to go right into Amber Spyglass because I am on the edge of my seat. I pity those who had to wait three years between the books originally.
I'll leave you with this: "There are two great powers," the man said, "and they've been fighting since time began. Every advance in human life, every scrap of knowledge and wisdom and decency we have has been torn by one side from the teeth of the other. Every little increase in human freedom has been fought over ferociously between those who want us to know more and be wiser and stronger, and those who want us to obey and be humble and submit."
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