i read some of it and found it quite dull and uninteresting, i dont see why its so gosh darned popular, oh why? i hate it!
2007-11-09 12:57:12 · 3 answers · asked by elle4 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
I listened to the Golden Compass CD during my commute in my car. It sucked. The main character was irritating, the story like you said was dull and uninteresting. Unless the movie is alot different from the book, it's going to be a BIG disappointment. I sold the audio CD on eBay as fast as I could.
2007-11-09 13:06:55 · answer #1 · answered by BP 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Personally I didn't like it because I could not find myself liking any of the characters and it was at times too slow.
I don't know why lots of people find it is amazing. I think in a general term of it, it was decent.
Also Harry Potter was the first of its kind to be marketed so widely which is why every other struggling YA author jumped on the bandwagon so the children weaning off H.P. have something else to grasp onto. I actually like Harry Potter though the 7th book wasn't what I expected...I just don't like any of the other kind of fantasy books out there that mimick it.
2007-11-09 13:29:30 · answer #2 · answered by Cindy 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Heavily marketed, multi-age intended kids' fiction with a controversial 'anti-religion' slant that's mainstream enough to be consumable by the Christian majority. What you're looking at is one of the many illegitimate children of the Harry Potter phenomenon.
Other works/movies to fall off the back of that bandwagon are the dreadfully derivative Eragon books, and their movie. Narnia, as Christian allegory, is classic kids fiction, but the movies are again, banking on the market that thinks reading is inherently wholesome.
2007-11-09 13:17:03 · answer #3 · answered by Phalene 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋