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
這本書的封麵設計就足以吸引人,那深邃的藍色調,仿佛藏著一個無盡的宇宙,而那柄鋒利的、閃爍著幽光的刀,則預示著故事中必然充斥著冒險與危機。剛拿到手,那種紙張特有的油墨香就撲鼻而來,瞬間將我拉入瞭那個與我們世界截然不同的奇幻國度。我迫不及待地翻開第一頁,就好像打開瞭一扇通往未知世界的大門。作者構建的這個世界是如此的立體而真實,裏麵的一切都充滿瞭想象力,卻又在邏輯上自洽,讓人不禁驚嘆於作者的纔華。角色們的形象也栩栩如生,他們的情感、他們的掙紮,都能深深地觸動人心。讀著讀著,我仿佛也成為瞭故事中的一員,和主角們一起經曆著種種磨難,分享著他們的喜悅與悲傷。這本書不僅僅是一個故事,更像是一次心靈的洗禮,讓我對愛、勇氣、犧牲以及人性的復雜有瞭更深的理解。我已經被這個故事深深地迷住瞭,迫不及待地想知道接下來的發展,也強烈推薦給所有喜歡奇幻文學的朋友們,相信你們也會和我一樣,在這趟奇妙的旅程中收獲滿滿。
評分這本書簡直就是一本奇跡的編織品,它用最精妙的語言,勾勒齣瞭一個前所未有的宏大敘事。我最喜歡的部分是作者在構建這個世界時所展現齣的那種極緻的細節追求。無論是那些奇特的生物,還是它們所處的復雜社會結構,亦或是那些充滿神秘色彩的物理定律,都描繪得如此細膩,仿佛觸手可及。這種沉浸式的閱讀體驗,是許多同類作品難以企及的。更不用說,書中那些關於自由意誌、命運以及個體在宏大敘事中的作用的探討,總是能在不經意間引發我深刻的思考。我常常會在讀完一章後,久久不能平靜,反復咀嚼其中的深意。主角們的成長曆程,也並非一蹴而就,而是充滿瞭挫摺、痛苦,以及最終的蛻變,這種真實感使得他們的形象更加豐滿,也讓讀者更容易産生共鳴。我尤其欣賞作者在處理復雜情節時的遊刃有餘,即使故事綫索繁多,也總能梳理得井井有條,最終匯聚成一股強大的敘事力量,將讀者牢牢吸引。
評分從拿到這本書的那一刻起,我就能感受到它所蘊含的非凡之處。精美的封麵設計,配閤上恰到好處的紙張觸感,都傳遞齣一種沉甸甸的期待感。翻開書頁,一股淡淡的墨香撲麵而來,瞬間將我拉入瞭那個充滿神秘與未知的世界。作者的文字功底極其深厚,他筆下的世界充滿瞭奇幻的色彩,卻又有著令人信服的邏輯。我尤其喜歡他在構建這個世界時所展現齣的那種細節上的考究,無論是那些奇特生物的形態,還是它們所處的奇妙環境,都描繪得栩栩如生,仿佛就在我的眼前。主角們的形象也是我非常欣賞的部分,他們的成長軌跡充滿瞭挑戰與坎坷,但他們身上所展現齣的勇氣、智慧以及對信念的堅守,卻深深地打動瞭我。我常常在閱讀過程中,為他們的命運而擔憂,又為他們的成功而歡呼。這本書不僅僅是一個關於冒險的故事,更是一次關於人性、關於選擇、關於成長的深刻探索。它讓我看到瞭希望,也讓我思考瞭生命的意義。
評分拿到這本書的那一刻,我都被它的設計所摺服瞭。封麵上那些看似隨意卻又充滿力量的綫條,以及其中蘊含的某種神秘符號,讓我立刻感受到瞭它非同尋常的氣質。翻開書頁,一股淡淡的油墨香混閤著古老的氣息撲麵而來,仿佛我正要踏入一個塵封已久的傳說。作者的文筆如同一位技藝精湛的織夢者,用文字編織齣瞭一個令人神往的世界。這個世界裏的一切都充滿瞭新奇與驚喜,每一個細節都仿佛經過精心雕琢,閃爍著獨特的光芒。我被深深地吸引住瞭,完全沉浸在這個故事之中,仿佛自己就是那個勇敢的探險傢,在未知的大陸上穿梭,與各種神秘的生物擦肩而過,經曆著驚心動魄的冒險。書中角色的塑造也是極其成功的,他們並非完美無瑕,而是充滿瞭人性的弱點與光輝,他們的成長與掙紮,讓我看到瞭希望,也感受到瞭勇氣。這本書不僅僅是一個精彩的故事,更是一次關於勇氣、愛與成長的深刻旅程,它喚醒瞭我內心深處的許多情感,讓我受益匪淺。
評分這本書的質感本身就預示著它是一部不容錯過的佳作。書頁的觸感舒適,印刷清晰,字跡大小適中,讓人在閱讀時能夠最大限度地專注於故事本身。而故事的內容,更是超齣瞭我的所有期待。作者以一種令人驚嘆的方式,構建瞭一個充滿想象力且邏輯嚴謹的奇幻世界。這個世界的獨特性在於其深度和廣度,它不僅僅是視覺上的奇觀,更在思想層麵上引發瞭深刻的共鳴。我尤其欣賞作者對於角色內心世界的刻畫,他們所麵臨的道德睏境、情感糾葛,以及在逆境中展現齣的堅韌不拔,都讓我動容不已。我常常會在夜深人靜的時候,因為某個情節而熱淚盈眶,或是因為某個角色的選擇而陷入沉思。這本書的敘事節奏把握得恰到好處,既有緊張刺激的冒險場麵,也有細膩溫情的感情描寫,讓整個閱讀過程充滿瞭起伏和驚喜。它不僅僅是一部可以帶來短暫愉悅的讀物,更是一部能夠觸及靈魂、引發思考的藝術品。
評分先買來,還沒有準備看呢
評分說、讀、寫等交際活動的能力,即 “四會”。從學習的角度來說,“讀”是其它“三會”的基礎,因為在國內學習英語的環境中,聽、說、寫的機會較少,我們通常是通過大量閱讀各種英語書報雜誌來豐富我們的“ 語感”(Speech feeling)(即對英語的感性認識),擴大英語詞匯量,提高英語理解和錶達能力。
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。
評分提高人的綜閤能力;讀書可豪情滿懷,使人精神更加振奮;讀書可泣人淚下,
評分我們已經知道瞭英語詞匯在英語語言中的重要性,而閱讀是掌握和記憶英語單詞的最佳手段。單獨地記憶單詞給人一種生澀的感覺,沒有語言的環境,也不知道該如何很好地使用這個單詞。閱讀文章的時候不但掌握瞭大量地信息,還很好地掌握瞭很多單詞的正確用法,一舉多得
評分正好騷到瞭你的癢處。這種“柳暗花明又一村”的感覺你那麼舒服,那麼的自在。
評分孩子非常喜歡這類書。。
評分有什麼事能像閱讀一樣做起來簡單卻成效顯著呢? 讀書給孩子聽就像和孩子說話,同樣基於以下的理由:樹立孩子的信心,帶來歡笑,拉近彼此的距離;告訴孩子信息或嚮孩子解釋問題,引發孩子的好奇心,激勵孩子。在朗讀中,我們還可以: ·在孩子的腦海中,將閱讀與愉悅聯係在一起。 ·創造背景知識。 ·建立詞匯基礎。 ·樹立一個閱讀的典範。 讓我們看看終身閱讀者是如何培養齣來的。許多教育界人士忽略瞭兩項有關閱讀的基本“人生事實”。少瞭這兩個定律的相互作用,教育改革的成效將微乎其微。 閱讀定律一:人類是喜歡享樂的。 閱讀定律二:閱讀是積纍漸進的技能。 現在我們來研究定律一:人類是喜歡享樂的。對於能給自己帶來快樂的事,人們會自願地反復去做。我們去自己喜歡的餐廳,點自己喜歡的食物,聽自己喜歡的音樂電颱,探望自己喜歡的親戚。反之,對於自己討厭的食物、音樂及親戚,我們則避之唯恐不及。這不僅是一條定律,更是一個心理上的事實。當我們的感官將電子與化學信息發送到大腦中的“有趣區”或“無趣區”時,人就會作齣正麵或負麵的反應。 美國自然曆史博物館一位傑齣的動物心理學傢,將所有行為分成兩種簡單的反應:接近與迴避。我們接近帶來快樂的事,迴避帶來痛苦或不愉快的事。 愉快就像膠水一樣,能粘住我們的注意力,但隻朝喜歡的方嚮吸引。當欣賞一部電影時,我們就會沉浸其中;不再喜歡時,這種投入的情緒即告中斷。這種情況幾乎適用於所有我們願意去做的事。每當我們給孩子朗讀時,就會發送一個“愉悅”信息到孩子的腦中,甚至將之稱為“廣告”亦不為過,因為朗讀讓孩子把書本、印刷品與愉悅畫上等號。然而,很多時候,“不愉快”卻和“閱讀”
評分這個係列的書都很好,買來給小朋友作為泛讀的。
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