Lyra and her daemon return as she and 12-year-old Will Parry are in a desperate flight for Will's life. They are drawn closer to Will's father and to the Subtle Knife, a deadly, magical, ancient tool that cuts windows between worlds. Through it all, the pair are drawn deeper and deeper into a fierce battle they may not survive.
With The Golden Compass Philip Pullman garnered every accolade under the sun. Critics lobbed around such superlatives as "elegant," "awe-inspiring," "grand," and "glittering," and used "magnificent" with gay abandon. Each reader had a favorite chapter--or, more likely, several--from the opening tour de force to Lyra's close call at Bolvangar to the great armored-bear battle. And Pullman was no less profligate when it came to intellectual firepower or singular characters. The d?mons alone grant him a place in world literature. Could the second installment of his trilogy keep up this pitch, or had his heroine and her too, too sullied parents consumed him? And what of the belief system that pervaded his alternate universe, not to mention the mystery of Dust? More revelations and an equal number of wonders and new players were definitely in order.
The Subtle Knife offers everything we could have wished for, and more. For a start, there's a young hero--from our world--who is a match for Lyra Silvertongue and whose destiny is every bit as shattering. Like Lyra, Will Parry has spent his childhood playing games. Unlike hers, though, his have been deadly serious. This 12-year-old long ago learned the art of invisibility: if he could erase himself, no one would discover his mother's increasing instability and separate them.
As the novel opens, Will's enemies will do anything for information about his missing father, a soldier and Arctic explorer who has been very much airbrushed from the official picture. Now Will must get his mother into safe seclusion and make his way toward Oxford, which may hold the key to John Parry's disappearance. But en route and on the lam from both the police and his family's tormentors, he comes upon a cat with more than a mouse on her mind: "She reached out a paw to pat something in the air in front of her, something quite invisible to Will." What seems to him a patch of everyday Oxford conceals far more: "The cat stepped forward and vanished." Will, too, scrambles through and into another oddly deserted landscape--one in which children rule and adults (and felines) are very much at risk. Here in this deathly silent city by the sea, he will soon have a dustup with a fierce, flinty little girl: "Her expression was a mixture of the very young--when she first tasted the cola--and a kind of deep, sad wariness." Soon Will and Lyra (and, of course, her d?mon, Pantalaimon) uneasily embark on a great adventure and head into greater tragedy.
As Pullman moves between his young warriors and the witch Serafina Pekkala, the magnetic, ever-manipulative Mrs. Coulter, and Lee Scoresby and his hare dmon, Hester, there are clear signs of approaching war and earthly chaos. There are new faces as well. The author introduces Oxford dark-matter researcher Mary Malone; the Latvian witch queen Ruta Skadi, who "had trafficked with spirits, and it showed"; Stanislaus Grumman, a shaman in search of a weapon crucial to the cause of Lord Asriel, Lyra's father; and a serpentine old man whom Lyra and Pan can't quite place. Also on hand are the Specters, beings that make cliff-ghasts look like rank amateurs.
Throughout, Pullman is in absolute control of his several worlds, his plot and pace equal to his inspiration. Any number of astonishing scenes--small- and large-scale--will have readers on edge, and many are cause for tears. "You think things have to be possible," Will demands. "Things have to be true!" It is Philip Pullman's gift to turn what quotidian minds would term the impossible into a reality that is both heartbreaking and beautiful.
--Kerry Fried
Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy now appears in sophisticated trade paperback editions, each title embossed within a runic emblem of antiqued gold. The backdrop of The Golden Compass: His Dark Materials, Book I sports a midnight blue map of the cosmos with the zodiacal ram at its center. The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass carry similarly intriguing cover art, and all three titles offer details not seen in the originals: in Compass and Knife, for example, Pullman's stamp-size b&w; art introduces each chapter; Spyglass chapters open with literary quotes from Blake, the Bible, Dickinson and more.
--Publishers Weekly
这本书的封面设计就足以吸引人,那深邃的蓝色调,仿佛藏着一个无尽的宇宙,而那柄锋利的、闪烁着幽光的刀,则预示着故事中必然充斥着冒险与危机。刚拿到手,那种纸张特有的油墨香就扑鼻而来,瞬间将我拉入了那个与我们世界截然不同的奇幻国度。我迫不及待地翻开第一页,就好像打开了一扇通往未知世界的大门。作者构建的这个世界是如此的立体而真实,里面的一切都充满了想象力,却又在逻辑上自洽,让人不禁惊叹于作者的才华。角色们的形象也栩栩如生,他们的情感、他们的挣扎,都能深深地触动人心。读着读着,我仿佛也成为了故事中的一员,和主角们一起经历着种种磨难,分享着他们的喜悦与悲伤。这本书不仅仅是一个故事,更像是一次心灵的洗礼,让我对爱、勇气、牺牲以及人性的复杂有了更深的理解。我已经被这个故事深深地迷住了,迫不及待地想知道接下来的发展,也强烈推荐给所有喜欢奇幻文学的朋友们,相信你们也会和我一样,在这趟奇妙的旅程中收获满满。
评分这本书简直就是一本奇迹的编织品,它用最精妙的语言,勾勒出了一个前所未有的宏大叙事。我最喜欢的部分是作者在构建这个世界时所展现出的那种极致的细节追求。无论是那些奇特的生物,还是它们所处的复杂社会结构,亦或是那些充满神秘色彩的物理定律,都描绘得如此细腻,仿佛触手可及。这种沉浸式的阅读体验,是许多同类作品难以企及的。更不用说,书中那些关于自由意志、命运以及个体在宏大叙事中的作用的探讨,总是能在不经意间引发我深刻的思考。我常常会在读完一章后,久久不能平静,反复咀嚼其中的深意。主角们的成长历程,也并非一蹴而就,而是充满了挫折、痛苦,以及最终的蜕变,这种真实感使得他们的形象更加丰满,也让读者更容易产生共鸣。我尤其欣赏作者在处理复杂情节时的游刃有余,即使故事线索繁多,也总能梳理得井井有条,最终汇聚成一股强大的叙事力量,将读者牢牢吸引。
评分拿到这本书的那一刻,我都被它的设计所折服了。封面上那些看似随意却又充满力量的线条,以及其中蕴含的某种神秘符号,让我立刻感受到了它非同寻常的气质。翻开书页,一股淡淡的油墨香混合着古老的气息扑面而来,仿佛我正要踏入一个尘封已久的传说。作者的文笔如同一位技艺精湛的织梦者,用文字编织出了一个令人神往的世界。这个世界里的一切都充满了新奇与惊喜,每一个细节都仿佛经过精心雕琢,闪烁着独特的光芒。我被深深地吸引住了,完全沉浸在这个故事之中,仿佛自己就是那个勇敢的探险家,在未知的大陆上穿梭,与各种神秘的生物擦肩而过,经历着惊心动魄的冒险。书中角色的塑造也是极其成功的,他们并非完美无瑕,而是充满了人性的弱点与光辉,他们的成长与挣扎,让我看到了希望,也感受到了勇气。这本书不仅仅是一个精彩的故事,更是一次关于勇气、爱与成长的深刻旅程,它唤醒了我内心深处的许多情感,让我受益匪浅。
评分这本书的质感本身就预示着它是一部不容错过的佳作。书页的触感舒适,印刷清晰,字迹大小适中,让人在阅读时能够最大限度地专注于故事本身。而故事的内容,更是超出了我的所有期待。作者以一种令人惊叹的方式,构建了一个充满想象力且逻辑严谨的奇幻世界。这个世界的独特性在于其深度和广度,它不仅仅是视觉上的奇观,更在思想层面上引发了深刻的共鸣。我尤其欣赏作者对于角色内心世界的刻画,他们所面临的道德困境、情感纠葛,以及在逆境中展现出的坚韧不拔,都让我动容不已。我常常会在夜深人静的时候,因为某个情节而热泪盈眶,或是因为某个角色的选择而陷入沉思。这本书的叙事节奏把握得恰到好处,既有紧张刺激的冒险场面,也有细腻温情的感情描写,让整个阅读过程充满了起伏和惊喜。它不仅仅是一部可以带来短暂愉悦的读物,更是一部能够触及灵魂、引发思考的艺术品。
评分从拿到这本书的那一刻起,我就能感受到它所蕴含的非凡之处。精美的封面设计,配合上恰到好处的纸张触感,都传递出一种沉甸甸的期待感。翻开书页,一股淡淡的墨香扑面而来,瞬间将我拉入了那个充满神秘与未知的世界。作者的文字功底极其深厚,他笔下的世界充满了奇幻的色彩,却又有着令人信服的逻辑。我尤其喜欢他在构建这个世界时所展现出的那种细节上的考究,无论是那些奇特生物的形态,还是它们所处的奇妙环境,都描绘得栩栩如生,仿佛就在我的眼前。主角们的形象也是我非常欣赏的部分,他们的成长轨迹充满了挑战与坎坷,但他们身上所展现出的勇气、智慧以及对信念的坚守,却深深地打动了我。我常常在阅读过程中,为他们的命运而担忧,又为他们的成功而欢呼。这本书不仅仅是一个关于冒险的故事,更是一次关于人性、关于选择、关于成长的深刻探索。它让我看到了希望,也让我思考了生命的意义。
评分孩子非常喜欢这类书。。
评分当心情消极悲观的时候读书,它会唤起你对未来人生的热爱和美好生活的向往;
评分先买来,还没有准备看呢
评分很小很轻,没图,但激励孩子学英文
评分非常满意,五星
评分当心情消极悲观的时候读书,它会唤起你对未来人生的热爱和美好生活的向往;
评分买了黄金罗盘之后,就想把黑色物质的三部曲全部收入,但是一直没活动,现在有了,赶紧买了。作者是我最喜欢的,菲利普·普尔曼20世纪以来最重要的英国童书作家之一。毕业于牛津大学,曾任西敏学院兼任讲师,教授维多利亚时期文学与民间故事,目前与家人住在英国,专事写作。除了青少年小说外,也撰写剧本与图画书。
评分书是我们精神的巢穴,生命的源泉。古今中外有成就的人,到与书结下了不解之缘,
评分非常好的故事 原汁原味的英文 很喜欢
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