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Article: His Dark Materials trilogy: (The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass).(Book review)
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- November 1, 2007
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His Dark Materials Trilogy (The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass) WRITTEN BY Philip Pullman PUBLISHED BY Random House Children's Books, 2003, ISBN: 0440419518, Softcover, $29.97 CND
Evil. This one word describes Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy. All the more diabolical is the marketing of his books to children. And yet, as Catholics continue to debate Harry Potter, Britain's second-most popular children's author has snuck onto reading lists as award-winning literature.
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Critics hail Pullman as a new J.R.R. Tolkien and a better writer than C.S. Lewis. He has won England's coveted Carnegie ...