

Erfindungen können auch in Hirngespinste münden, denen am Ende doch die Magie, die Wärme und die anheimelnde Stimmung einer guten Erzählung fehlen. "Erfindung aber macht noch keine Geschichte.The Amber Spyglass continues those positive elements and is still a page-turner, but also displays a remarkable depth that has turned it - at least in my mind - from an entertaining series into a favorite one, mostly on the strength of this concluding volume." - Charles de Lint, Fantasy & Science Fiction "The previous books were somewhat light fare - event-driven adventure stories, strengthened by Pullman's delightful prose and inventive imagination when it comes to other worlds, the races that populate them, curious artifacts, and the like.(.) Yet the book does contain some of the most haunting passages of the trilogy." - Claudia FitzHerbert, Daily Telegraph Threads left lying about in the two previous volumes of the trilogy are picked up and re-examined but there's not a lot of tying up. "Judged by itself, The Amber Spyglass is a great baggy mess of a book.

(.) Various questions, deceptions, and discoveries challenge readers to grapple with their own ideas of God, religion, life, love, and death." - Karen Carden, Christian Science Monitor

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