The Golden Compass

In 1946, acclaimed author Philip Pullman was born in Norwich, England, into a Protestant family. Although his beloved grandfather was an Anglican priest, Pullman became an atheist in his teenage years. He graduated from Exeter College in Oxford with a degree in English, and spent 23 years as a teacher while working on publishing 13 books and numerous short stories. Pullman has received many awards for his literature, including the prestigious Carnegie Medal for exceptional children's literature in 1996, and the Carnegie of Carnegies in 2006. He is most famous for his His Dark Materials trilogy, a series of young adult fantasy novels which feature free-thought themes. The novels cast organized religion as the series' villain. Pullman told The New York Times in 2000: "When you look at what C.S. Lewis is saying, his message is so anti-life, so cruel, so unjust. The view that the Narnia books have for the material world is one of almost undisguised contempt. At one point, the old professor says, 'It's all in Plato'—meaning that the physical world we see around us is the crude, shabby, imperfect, second-rate copy of something much better. I want to emphasize the simple physical truth of things, the absolute primacy of the material life, rather than the spiritual or the afterlife." He argues for a "republic of heaven" here on Earth.In 2007, the first novel of the His Dark Materials trilogy was adopted into the motion picture The Golden Compass by New Line Cinema. Many churches and Christian organizations, including the Catholic League, called for a boycott of the film due to the books' atheist themes. While the film was successful in Europe and moderately received in the United States, the other two books in the trilogy were not be adapted into film, possibly due to pressure from the Catholic Church. When questioned about the anti-church views in His Dark Materials, Pullman explains in an interview for Third Way (UK): “It comes from history. It comes from the record of the Inquisition, persecuting heretics and torturing Jews and all that sort of stuff; and it comes from the other side, too, from the Protestants burning the Catholics. It comes from the insensate pursuit of innocent and crazy old women, and from the Puritans in America burning and hanging the witches—and it comes not only from the Christian church but also from the Taliban. Every single religion that has a monotheistic god ends up by persecuting other people and killing them because they don't accept him. Wherever you look in history, you find that. It's still going on" (Feb. 2002). Pullman has received many threats by ardent believers over his choice of subject matter.More: https://ffrf.org/news/day/dayitems/it...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_P...http://www.randomhouse.com/features/p...http://www.amazon.com/Philip-Pullman/...http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1099514/

出版者:Yearling Books

作者:Philip Pullman

页数:399

出版时间:2001-5-1

价格:USD 7.50

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780440418320

图书标签:奇幻小说英文童话英国fantasyPullman英

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In a landmark epic of fantasy and storytelling, Philip Pullman invites readers into a world as convincing and thoroughly realized as Narnia, Earthsea, or Redwall. Here lives an orphaned ward named Lyra Belacqua, whose carefree life among the scholars at Oxford's Jordan College is shattered by the arrival of two powerful visitors. First, her fearsome uncle, Lord Asriel, appears with evidence of mystery and danger in the far North, including photographs of a mysterious celestial phenomenon called Dust and the dim outline of a city suspended in the Aurora Borealis that he suspects is part of an alternate universe. He leaves Lyra in the care of Mrs. Coulter, an enigmatic scholar and explorer who offers to give Lyra the attention her uncle has long refused her. In this multilayered narrative, however, nothing is as it seems. Lyra sets out for the top of the world in search of her kidnapped playmate, Roger, bearing a rare truth-telling instrument, the compass of the title. All around her children are disappearing—victims of so-called "Gobblers"—and being used as subjects in terrible experiments that separate humans from their daemons, creatures that reflect each person's inner being. And somehow, both Lord Asriel and Mrs. Coulter are involved.

读后感

看完这本书，我的第一反应就是埋怨自己，这么简单的剧情，怎么自己就没想到呢？后来又明白了，如果我能想得出，我就是作家了，神奇的黄金罗盘，能知道一切想知道的事情，倘若，能看见它的构造原理多好啊，梦魇终究是梦魇...  

虽然是儿童文学作品，不过挺适合快要麻木的大人们读。从孩子的视角出发来探究一个神秘的真相。整个情节紧凑、新鲜、繁多却不杂乱。对于事物、人物环境的描述都相当的令人有联想感。让人能够一口气看下去。故事情节一直在向前推进，整个的节奏非常的好。  

看完这本书，我的第一反应就是埋怨自己，这么简单的剧情，怎么自己就没想到呢？后来又明白了，如果我能想得出，我就是作家了，神奇的黄金罗盘，能知道一切想知道的事情，倘若，能看见它的构造原理多好啊，梦魇终究是梦魇...  

自从看了这部同名的电影后，就想看下面的发展。（我好像都是先看的电影……） 喜欢书中莱拉的勇敢和机灵，很萌里面的披甲熊——埃欧雷克.伯尔尼松。 不过外国的书总会扯上他们的宗教问题，但却我们好像一点信仰也没有，有时候这是件好事，有时候却是件很让人迷茫的事…...  

虽然是儿童文学作品，不过挺适合快要麻木的大人们读。从孩子的视角出发来探究一个神秘的真相。整个情节紧凑、新鲜、繁多却不杂乱。对于事物、人物环境的描述都相当的令人有联想感。让人能够一口气看下去。故事情节一直在向前推进，整个的节奏非常的好。  

用户评价

好像是大三期末考的时候朋友介绍看的，开始后一发不可收拾，连复习都顾不上了，完全沉迷其中，哈利路亚，没有挂科，貌似有些还考得不错。说明人的潜能真的是无限的。

不打算看第二本了……

3.5 作者的声音略浑浊。目前还没有遇到作者本人朗读自己作品的上乘有声书。

北极熊超级萌啊(sigh

总算在电视剧开始前看完了。这种介于魔幻/科幻美术还可以做的很蒸朋的世界观我喜，文笔本真儿童文学（