So if you want to enjoy your first experience of this long-awaited fantasy thriller as a virgin reader, innocent of my plot synopses or interpretations, flag this review and come back to it later. I find it impossible to consider this serious novel without revealing some of its secrets. The nature of temptation is one of the book’s most compelling if less explicit themes.īut, readers, here’s a temptation for you. Perhaps my yielding to the temptation of a theological colloquy wouldn’t be an unsuitable reaction to The Amber Spyglass. Armed with a rare numbered typescript copy of The Amber Spyglass, I’m tempted to roll up my shirtsleeves, light a cigar, splash some Tokay into a glass, and discuss fine points of reason, fancy, and theology before all hell breaks loose - an amusement that, with the publication of the unsettling third volume of His Dark Materials, just may come to pass.
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