Few thoughts about after finishing read Golden Compass

Few thoughts about Golden Compass:

08/1/18

I’ve decided that for today’s post I am going to be giving my full rating of the book “The Golden Compass” since I already finished the summary per chapter, and then talk a little bit about this book called, “How to Live Without Fear and Worry”. Now, to be honest, I think that the Golden Compass was a great choice by my school to be used as the summer reading book. Although, I kind of wished that they could’ve used this as a class text instead. Usually, the books that my teacher makes us kids read for our quizzes don’t have any “action” or drama involved, but the Golden Compass fits both of those areas and has so much more to offer. I would give it a 4.5 in total. 

The only reason I won’t give it a 5/5 is because it seems to be like it hasn’t won any medals so either the book community hasn’t recognized this book yet or it just doesn’t seem to hit the spot. Unless, the giant compass on the side of the cover is actually a secret medal… Anyways, the way the chapters are set up make you want to read more. Especially, since it always on some sort of cliffhanger. In addition, the plot gives you tons of information that will make you intrigued to know how the characters in the story react. And finally, all of the action that takes place in the story, there are lots of conflicts that happen throughout the book that give it a sort of meaning.

The author, “Phillip Pullman” has already completed the sequels in 2000. And this book was published in 1997, so that means he wrote 2 more books in 3 years? I don’t know whether or not that’s fast or just normal. Because one of my books is going to take a year and a half until published and released for me to read. The name of that book is “Trials of Apollo”, I told myself I’d forget it and I almost did. The other two books that complete the trilogy are “The Subtle Knife” and “The Amber Spyglass”. I was able to read a bit of the Subtle Knife since it has a preview at the end of the Golden Compass and it seems like Lyra is going to have a much bigger problem in her hands.

Now it’s time to talk a bit about “How to Live Without Fear or Worry”. It’s a book written by a person named, “K. Sri Dhammanahda” and I think that this guy is definitely getting really deep into this topic. To be completely honest, at first I wasn’t interested at all and even was about to sleep, but then he started talking about the Buddha’s life and the 8 fold path, that’s when I got interested. I’m not sure whether or not this is related to Nirvana because he said something that sounded similar and I think it was a typo. I haven’t gotten far yet, completed 2 and a half chapters. If I have nothing to say I’ll talk about this next time.