Luces del norte

Novela, Fantasía por Philip Pullman

Resumen

Lyra sólo tiene once años, pero ya está marcada por el destino. Los niños de Oxford están desapareciendo, y se rumorea que lo mismo sucede en otros lugares. Armada con su aletiómetro, un objeto único que le permite adivinar lo que nadie sabe, Lyra parte hacia el Polo Norte con el propósito de salvar a los niños y averiguar qué se oculta tras sus desapariciones. Pero descubrirá que el mundo donde vive es mucho más complejo de lo que ella creía, y para cumplir su desti- no deberá reunir todo su valor.Luces del norte es la primera parte de la trilogía La Materia Oscura, compuesta asimismo por La daga y El catalejo lacado.

Primera publicación

1995

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jon.lessner

Jon.lessner

OK prose, but terrible plotting and characters. So many of the ostensibly critical characters (in the world) are either deus ex machina for some specific threat the characters are facing, or blatant ego-stroking for the completely self centered mains. The story is written in third person, but from such a skewed perspective and rationale that it sometimes seems it's a mythical tale told after the fact by the mains about themselves. Besides this, some of the morality is just bizarre and inconsistent. The Church is self-evidently evil because they're subtly censoring scientific institutions (which is only demonstrated once in the whole series) and they sponsor a creepy, child-exploiting antagonist. Fair enough. But the main character sees the distant messiah (her father) kill her best friend for a remarkably similar "scientific" purpose, then he time travels and starts amassing a secret army, and she STILL sees him as a hero. WTF is going on in this story? The whole thing is riddled with motivated reasoning. "We're good, so the insane things we're doing are good." A truly disturbing book if the heroes were not written ironically. Every major event and decision screams #raisedbynarcissists.

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gambit4348

Gambit4348

A very creative and funny adventure in an alternate universe with a lovely character named Lyra. The author successfully creates a fantasy in a universe where reality is very distinct from ours. The tone of mistery is balanced with action and intrigue and very amazing characters and their "deamons". This book has the correct pace to display the events in the storyline, not being too fast, not too slow! A real accomplishment!

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gambit4348

Gambit4348

A very creative and funny adventure in an alternate universe with a lovely character named Lyra.

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amberlillie90

Amberlillie90

Loved it

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poppy8

Poppy8

One of the best young adult fantasy series I've read. Even though it's aimed at kids, I think adults can get something out of it too.

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