Northern Lights

Brilliant read all 3 back to back.

Loved this - am a complete Pullman fan now, and waiting for his next one!

Fantastic fantasy book. Pullman creates an amazing world that is much darker than Harry Potter and Hogwarts. I'm just amazed that children can read such a complex book! Can't wait for the film.

I love this book (and the sequels), religion, fantasy, and particle physics - brilliant.

Multi-layered and fast-paced once you get past the Oxford dons. This is far more luxuriant and resonant than its critical analogue, Harry Potter.

Lyra is an excellent heroine - she is accessible not because she is an everywoman but because she is so intractably herself that it is difficult to see her as a character or cipher.

I enjoyed this book more than the rest of the series, despite the wider theological themes opened up throughout the rest of the trilogy, simply because this novel seemed to have more drive.

I hate the phrase 'unputdownable', but I read this when I was fifteen in the space of a weekend. I'm now in my twenties, and I could easily do the same again.

One of my favourites. I can see myself reading this in twenty years time.

I struggled with it and then gave up. There was something portentous about the ideas and the prose was leaden.

a bit silly

One of the only children's books that you can read and enjoy as an adult (I am not counting harry potter!), great stuff.

And soon to be a major motion picture - read the entry on imdb.com

I hope they don't ruin it with the film.

This trilogy is immense. It knocked my socks off and, unlike most trilogies, it gets better and better as it goes on.

i agree ... is a very good read - brilliantly written ...