Wednesday, November 29, 2006

The Subtle Knife

Second book from trilogy The Dark Materials from Philip Pullman (you can find the post of the first one here) is great sequel of the story.
The young Lyra has just stepped through into the other world. And meanwhile in the third world a young boy Will is trying to solve the problem that is bothering him for some time now. After his father disappeared (he was a baby then) his mother estranged from the real world. At first he thought that she is playing, but soon he realized that she is not and starred to take things in his own hands.
So he learned very young how to take care for him and his mother. And protect her from many people.
They did not have peace, because two men were visiting them and wanted to know many things. And one day Will took action and engaged them. By accident he killed one of them and ran away. He went to Oxford and accidentally discovered the window into the new world. He went through and realized that in this world there are no adults. For a few hundred years there were strange beings that attacked them and killed them. Only the children were left alone.
It was in this world that he met Lyra and they became best friends. He took her into his world to help her find out what Dust is. She did find a scientist that helped her and explained her what she knew.

This just a opened beginning of a story and you really should read it all. There is the third part as well.

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