![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But it’s a complicated and dark and unsettling coming-of-age, with grotesquely ruthless parents who threaten to sever children from their souls. It tells the growing-up story of Lyra and Will, Pullman’s wild and enterprising child characters. In some ways, the trilogy is part of the coming-of-age tradition of literature for young teens (and inevitably, somewhat younger kids, too). Pullman’s work is a hybrid: It’s sold to adults as complex fantasy, and to the 12-year-old crowd as Harry Potter-plus. It’s that I loved the books so much that I don’t want any actors or special effects, no matter how well-cast and well-rendered, interfering with my own imaginings.īut the depth of my Pullman devotion doesn’t make me want to give his books to my two boys, who are near his intended audience. I’m pretty sure that I’m not going to go see the new movie based on The Golden Compass, the first novel in Philip Pullman’s transcendent trilogy, His Dark Materials. ![]()
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