His Dark Materials

So I just finished His Dark Materials by Phillip Pullman.  It is a trilogy consisting of The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, and The Amber Spyglass. 

  I watched the movie The Golden Compass and because of the way they ended it, the movie always left me wanting to know what happened next so I decided to pick up the books.  Book number one went pretty good and gave me a bit more insight than the movie did.  One of the biggest things I found I had a hard time reconciling is Mrs Coulter's hair.  Belief it or not, the book was dark while Nicole Kidman's is almost a platinum blonde.  There were long periods of time where nothing interesting happened and I can not believe Mr Pullman put in so much dead space in his books.  He obviously saw how it all went together but I found alot of information that had really no purpose except word count.  As I moved into book two, The Subtle Knife, things got even more confusing and there were a bunch more places where I just could not see why he even put such a thing into his book.  At the end of book two, we had been introduced to three different worlds and many new things and still most did not seem to even connect to each other.  I mean, what is Mary Malone's purpose?  To be the snake?  I get the reference but really, did she really NEED to be in the book?  Or Citigaze, why do we need to go through Citigaze to get between Lyra's world and Will's world?  What is the purpose of that?  The biggest WTF moments was when John Parry died. What was the purpose of actually having a scorned witch lover murder him just as his son and him find each other?  Did it really need to happen so Will found him in the World of the Dead?  Moving onto Book three, The Amber Spyglass, what exactly is the reason Mary Malone fell into the world of these strange creatures called mulefa. Did she really need to understand the way Dust worked? Book three gave me all those "Aha" moments I was looking for to make all the odds and ends make sense but there were a few I still didn't understand.  What was the purpose of Father Gomez?  He ultimately did nothing to the story and speaking of wasteful purposes, how did Mary 'tempt' Lyra?  These books left me with more questions than explanations.  While it was very noble that Lyra's parents eventually learned love for not only themselves but for their only daughter it was way too late and by the end of the book did almost nothing obvious to help Lyra.  How was the death of Metatron helpful?  And, really why leave the book were it ended?  You had only one or two moments of love between children and they figured out how to fix the Dust issue.  There was a whole lot of crap in between and then the children live forever after apart.  There is no hope for love with them.  The books left me ultimately disappointed and I will not be reading them again anytime soon.  His Dark Materials by Pullman, Philip [Boxed Set] [3 Units] (Google Affiliate Ad)

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