The Amber Spyglass, Deluxe 10th Anniversary Edition

Novel, Fantasy by Philip Pullman

Blurb

The Amber Spyglass é um romance de fantasia escrito por Philip Pullman e publicado em 2000. Terceiro e último volume da trilogia His Dark Materials, é a continuação direta de The Subtle Knife e narra os épicos acontecimentos finais da jornada de Lyra Belacqua e Will Parry, junto com as descobertas de Mary Malone sobre a natureza do Pó.
Embora seja o último volume da trilogia, um livro derivado intitulado Lyra's Oxford foi publicado pelo autor três anos depois. Ele acompanha a vida de Lyra aos 15 anos de idade, dois anos após os acontecimentos finais narrados em The Amber Spyglass.

First Published

2000

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jon.lessner

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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