{"id":567,"date":"2007-12-09T15:39:21","date_gmt":"2007-12-09T15:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog-test\/?p=567"},"modified":"2024-02-04T17:20:54","modified_gmt":"2024-02-04T22:20:54","slug":"pullman_01","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2007\/12\/pullman_01\/","title":{"rendered":"Pullman, Philip: (01) <cite>The Golden Compass<\/cite>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After watching the movie adaptation of <strong>Philip Pullman&#8217;s <cite>The Golden Compass<\/cite><\/strong> last night, I gave the book a quick re-read today.<\/p>\n<p>The book is better, as it makes more sense and is far less anvilicious. I love the rich strange compelling nature of the world-building and the characters here, and the range of emotions, and the hints at hugely ambitious goings-on. My memory of it is by far the clearest of the series, though I&#8217;m not sure if that&#8217;s because I liked it best or I just had more opportunties to re-read. I&#8217;m likely to go on and re-read the second book, too, though I&#8217;m unsure whether I&#8217;ll bother with the third, which I do not remember fondly&mdash;which puts me in the odd position of not recommending this book, for all that it&#8217;s excellent.<\/p>\n<p>(I&#8217;ve just noticed that our mass market edition, a first edition of Del Rey&#8217;s May 1997 printing, promises an introduction by Terry Brooks on its cover, but contains no such thing inside. I can&#8217;t say I regret the omission.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After watching the movie adaptation of Philip Pullman&#8217;s The Golden Compass last night, I gave the book a quick re-read today. The book is better, as it makes more sense and is far less anvilicious. I love the rich strange compelling nature of the world-building and the characters here, and the range of emotions, and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2007\/12\/pullman_01\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pullman, Philip: (01) <cite>The Golden Compass<\/cite>&#8220;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,86,15],"tags":[352],"class_list":["post-567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-his-dark-materials","category-sf-and-fantasy","tag-pullman-philip"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2762,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567\/revisions\/2762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}