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[derien]

As soon as I finished "HMS Surprise" I started reading "Once Upon A Time In The North" by Phillip Pullman, which I borrowed from littleredhead and is about Lee Scoresby when he's 24, and how he met Iorek. :) So far the writing is remarkably flat and clunky - passable, but only just. Like he phoned it in. Which might be why groundctrl's brother didn't like it until he was halfway through it, but then apparently he went back and read it a second time, so it must not be all that bad.

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[kryptyd.livejournal.com]

Aww, it's a shame to hear that. I loved Northern Lights so much I started re-reading it immediately after finishing it. I must read the rest of those books actually...

[derien.livejournal.com]

I just finished it - obviously, it's not long, more like a long short story than a regular novel - and it's fun. A cute little story at any rate. They even padded out with elaborate pictures and "reproductions" of information supporting the feel of the world, including some letters between Lyra and a couple of different people when she's at college about her dissertation, and there's a board game in a pocket in the back of the book.