Someone asked today if there is a book club, so I thought I'd try starting one. Not the usual type of club where everyone reads the same book - I thought we could write a synopsis of a book we've recently read, to give each other ideas for new books to read.
I have a Kindle subscription, so all of mine will be available on there for people who also subscribe.
Yes this is what I meant!
I too was a bit confused at first about the naming, as I didn't know 'The book of dust' was going to be the name of a second trilogy.
Expecto_Patronum explains it well here with the names of all the books in both trilogies. I particularly enjoyed La Belle Savage, the one with the boat too!
Oh I hope you haven't and never do, it was that disappointing. (They didn't even do the end of the book, it just ended).
I was a bit worried when the BBC announced the TV adaptation, though I thought they would do a better job and they did! I really enjoyed the TV show!
I'm not sure I ever watched the movie. I'm always nervous when they adapt a book I like into a film or series but I did think they did well with the series.
So the first trilogy His Dark Materials was Northern Lights, Amber Spyglass and Golden Compass. Later came a second trilogy Book of Dust. The first of these is the one you are referring to with boat and the pub and is called La Belle Savage. That is the prequel. The second book of dust is a sequel to the original trilogy and is called the secret commonwealth. The third book of dust has only recently been released about 6 years after the 2nd and is called The Rose Field. This book carries on where the 2nd one left off. Hope that makes sense.
Wow I can’t believe the third book is only just out… I remember reading the first one but I just assumed they were all already published…. It’s certainly been a while on the cards for publication … actually this must be different than what I think you mean because there was obviously northern lights, book of dust etc and I read that one I cant remember what it was called but it was like a prequel and he had the little boat on the river and lived or worked In the pub nearby
I loved the idea of having a Daemon when I first read them. I probably still do in fairness.
There has been a long gap between the 2nd and 3rd book of dust so easily forgotten I think.
I hope your son enjoys it.
If was a really good adaptation wasn't it. So much better than that awful American movie.
Oh I forgot the third book in this trilogy was out, though as I read the other two from the library to support them, I might have to wait for a free copy! Thanks for reminding me, I will look into making a reservation!
I too read them 23-24 years ago. I got recommended the original trilogy by my youngest sister who was 10 at the time. I had gone to uni but when I came home she used to want me to play daemons with her.
My son's reading Northern Lights at their school reading book!
I liked the BBC series. I thought they did the books very well and didn't change too much. I may have to rewatch that actually.
I will do my best to write a synopsis once I've finished. The books of dust are particularly long and complicated and I'd really have to do a synopsis of the 2nd 2 together as they are both the events after his dark materials. The 1st book of dust is the prequel - I particularly enjoyed this one.
Me too! So cool! Thanks Lotus!
I'd be interested to read a synopsis if you could write one when you've finished reading it. I read His Dark materials years back and I'm currently watching the BBC series on iPlayer.
I can't give a synopsis yet as I've not long started reading it but I've just started The Book of Dust: The Rose Field by Phillip Pullman. For those familiar with the series (or not) this is the third and final Book of Dust which is the trilogy that follows His Dark Materials.
This is quite a significant book for me as I read the first book of the Dark Materials trilogy over 25 years ago.
This sounds interesting and very different I might give it a go. I’ve actually been watching alien, earth with my “step - daughter” (I never call her that)on Disney plus so it is the sort of thing on my radar at the moment
I have just finished reading a sci-fi trilogy called the Odyssey Earth Series, by Rex Burke.
A 30-something guy called Jordan - a history professor - signs up for a journey to an Earth Like planet on a ship built by a multi-billionaire. He'll be part of a group frozen for 17 years while the main crew fly the ship with the help of an AI & do stuff like growing plants for food in the on ship garden. When they arrive he'll write the history of the settlement on the planet and supervise the educational system.
He's woken up a year before they arrive, and told they need him to supervise six 16 year olds, conceived on ship in the first year when the water borne birth control system failed for a few people. The kids had been raised and taught by a primary school teacher, who had just died from cancer.
They've been surprised to discover the planet has a twin, another one capable of sustaining life, and they've sent down a pod and supplies to its surface ready for an expedition there later. The kids like to hang out in one of the Landers in the flight bay, and Jordan finds them there just as the ship is manoeuvring into orbit around the new planet - at which point the ship is hit by some space debris which sends the lander, with Jordan and the kids - out into space. The AI pilots them down to the twin planet where the pod and supplies are, and Jordan then just has to teach the kids how to build a fire, fish, forage fruits and nuts, and not drown in the river. Oh, and they have to work out how to get rescued when they have no communication with the ship.....
