christytidwell's review
3.0
This book is moderately useful in providing readings of Pullman's His Dark Materials. Some of the included essays are straightforward reviews of the series, some are more academic readings of the place of the series in fantasy or YA traditions, and some are just silly. I found the reviews to be interesting but not terribly unique (you can find lots of equally useful and interesting reviews online), the academic approaches to be useful as a starting point for research, and the other random essays to be completely unuseful to me, since I am approaching the series from a more academic perspective. Honestly, though, I don't know who besides someone considering the series academically would read this book, so the inclusion of humorous and merely personal approaches seems odd.
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