golden compass is an intriguing adventure story with a spunky young girl protagonist and a talking bear sidekick. subtle knife is a less-than-intriguing story with a sniveling girl protagonist and angsty male teen sidekick plus a bit of blood. amber spyglass is a horrendous dull flat slogging plotless non-adventure starring a weak paper-doll of a girl with a background of ghosts, exaggerated authority figures, and an alternate universe populated by wheel-riding cows. golden compass draws you in. subtle knife barely advances the story but what do you expect from the second of three books. amber spylass introduces random characters solely designed to prop up a plot which is solely designed to painfully, repeatedly, and with unmitigated inelegance hammer home the atheist agenda of the author.
i don't have a problem with atheism. really. whatever you want to believe or not believe, it's fine with me. really. what puzzles me is how anyone would want to cling to -- much less evangelize -- a belief which conjures such a bleak, flat, tedious picture of the world. a world without energy, without joy, with the only goal to obliterate the authority. i mean, you don't have to believe in a creator to delight in the creation. flowers are beautiful, no matter where they come from.
i'm not done with the story yet. maybe the end will redeem it all, but damn, it'd have to be quite an ending to redeem all these hours of tediously getting hammered in the brain.
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