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I consider myself a thoughtful person and I enjoyed reading HDM as recently as 2020 ;) There is no need to broadly insult everyone who likes a book. Each to her
by setgree 4y ago
I consider myself a thoughtful person and I enjoyed reading HDM as recently as 2020 ;) There is no need to broadly insult everyone who likes a book. Each to her own.
Having said that, I felt ‘the golden compass’ holds up much better than the sequels — better character development, less didactic, amazing word building.
(Edited to avoid potential spoilers)
- jgrahamc 4y agoI didn’t feel that she was devoted to him. She was someone experiencing a first love, she’d been through a lot, she was losing the ability to read the alethiometer, and Will had the knife.
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- thaumasiotes 4y ago> amazing word building There are some misfires. And though I assume you meant to say "world building", the word building is a particular weak point. He decided that, in an alternate history where the word for electricity derived from the Arabic word for amber rather than the Greek one, it was perfectly plausible for the modern form of an original "anbar" to be "anbar". That can't happen. If you want to see a series of novels with strong word building, check out Katharine Kerr's Deverry series. ;D