License: GPL
Since there has been so much uproar caused by the movie, I decided I would have a look at the trilogy — though I generally have not been much into Philip Pullman, since I have found his books usually too simplistic and childlike — which makes sense, I suppose, since they are not really targeted to adults.
It is a pity that I never ran across these when I was still a child, since they are much better written than the Narnia chronicles. I quite think that Lyra is a well drawn character, though she behaves in ways unfathomable to me, but perhaps this is because she is a girl and perhaps it is because I have never seen my daemon.