Il cannocchiale d'ambra

Novel, Fantasy by Philip Pullman

Blurb

Il cannocchiale d'ambra è un romanzo fantastico del 2000 di Philip Pullman, seguito da La lama sottile e terzo volume della trilogia Queste oscure materie.
Oltre a molti personaggi già presenti nei primi due libri, Il cannocchiale d’ambra ne introduce molti nuovi, come i mulefa, misteriose creature capaci di vedere la Polvere; i Gallivespiani, spie al servizio di Lord Asriel; Baruch e Balthamos, gli angeli guida di Will Parry; Metatron, l’angelo fiero e potente che ha preso il comando del Cielo al posto del Signore.

First Published

2000

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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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