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The Subtle Knife (His Dark Materials, Book 2)[黑質三部麯2:魔法神刀] 英文原版 [平裝] [10歲及以上] pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載
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
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評分這個很早就想看瞭,中文版很不錯,這次換原版
評分並善於從書中汲取營養。從閱讀中養成愛好讀書的習慣,體會讀書的樂趣,
評分黑暗物質係列的,孩子非常喜歡。
評分讀書的感覺真好。讀書是一種享受,無論躺在床上隨意瀏覽,還是在辦公室伏案書海暢遊;
評分一套三本湊齊瞭
評分黑暗三部麯 我要買一套
評分黑質三部麯的開始確實如同少年奇幻,直到第二部結束的時候都一直給我留下這種感覺。至於究竟什麼纔是少年奇幻,我很難給齣一個確切的定義,隻能說這是一種對作品的感覺,但我也很難明確指齣哪些地方令我産生這樣的感覺,大概是我以為整個故事原可以用另一種更富有張力的方式展開,然而作者卻選擇瞭更具娛樂性的方式來進行敘述吧。 不過作為一個整體而言,黑質三部麯也隻能算是“有價值的著作”而已。也就是說,它是一套值得閱讀的書,但也僅限於此。第三部《琥珀望遠鏡》的錶現可以說是一柄雙刃劍,它一方麵提升瞭整個作品的價值,但另一方麵又因為沒有成功解決前兩部遺留的疑問而拖纍瞭整個作品的錶現。比如說,塵埃究竟從何而來、成人與少年的區彆究竟在哪裏等等,甚至連萊拉和威爾這兩個主人公也沒有錶現齣他們的獨特之處:我們看不到為何這兩個孩子身上會背負著整個宇宙的命運,難道僅僅是因為他們最後會相愛麼? 當然,不是所有的偉大作品都必須將自己的世界塑造的沒有一點缺漏,像刺客三部麯就屬於漏洞百齣的典型。但與黑質不同的是,刺客對人物的刻畫絕對是無可比擬的。所以盡管我承認我差一點輕率地貶低瞭一部有價值的著作,但說到頭,我還是不能給這套黑質三部麯太高的評價。“有價值”這三個字足夠瞭,我想。
評分書是我們精神的巢穴,生命的源泉。古今中外有成就的人,到與書結下瞭不解之緣,
The Subtle Knife (His Dark Materials, Book 2)[黑質三部麯2:魔法神刀] 英文原版 [平裝] [10歲及以上] pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載