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Novel, Fantasy by Philip Pullman

Blurb

Northern Lights é um romance inglês de fantasia escrito por Philip Pullman, originalmente publicado em Julho de 1995, e o primeiro volume da série His Dark Materials.
A história é situada em um mundo aonde os seres humanos possuem manifestações físicas da alma, os daemons, e é controlado por uma instituição religiosa cristã chamada Magisterium, que oprime, condena e tenta a todo custo manter a população em um estado de ignorância. A narrativa acompanha a jornada da jovem Lyra Belacqua para o Ártico em busca de seu amigo desaparecido, Roger Parslow. O livro envolve elementos de fantasia, como feiticeiras e ursos-polares falantes, e faz alusão a uma ampla gama de idéias de campos, como a física, filosofia e teologia.
O livro é seguido pelo segundo volume da série, The Subtle Knife, publicado em 1997. Northern Lights foi adaptado para o cinema em 2007 pela New Line Cinema em um filme intitulado The Golden Compass.

First Published

1995

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Jon.lessner

OK prose, but terrible plotting and characters. So many of the ostensibly critical characters (in the world) are either deus ex machina for some specific threat the characters are facing, or blatant ego-stroking for the completely self centered mains. The story is written in third person, but from such a skewed perspective and rationale that it sometimes seems it's a mythical tale told after the fact by the mains about themselves. Besides this, some of the morality is just bizarre and inconsistent. The Church is self-evidently evil because they're subtly censoring scientific institutions (which is only demonstrated once in the whole series) and they sponsor a creepy, child-exploiting antagonist. Fair enough. But the main character sees the distant messiah (her father) kill her best friend for a remarkably similar "scientific" purpose, then he time travels and starts amassing a secret army, and she STILL sees him as a hero. WTF is going on in this story? The whole thing is riddled with motivated reasoning. "We're good, so the insane things we're doing are good." A truly disturbing book if the heroes were not written ironically. Every major event and decision screams #raisedbynarcissists.

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Gambit4348

A very creative and funny adventure in an alternate universe with a lovely character named Lyra. The author successfully creates a fantasy in a universe where reality is very distinct from ours. The tone of mistery is balanced with action and intrigue and very amazing characters and their "deamons". This book has the correct pace to display the events in the storyline, not being too fast, not too slow! A real accomplishment!

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