His Dark Materials

After I saw the movie The Golden Compass I added the trilogy to my reading stack. I finished them a couple weeks ago but didn't get around to writing about it before now. Terse impression: rich worlds and characters I wanted to follow; the first two and a half books hung together reasonably well, but the last half of the last book went off into la-la land, which affected my enjoyment of the whole. Spoilers follow.

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