"The book, this theory goes, had too much to explain and resolve in a story that, regardless of where it ended up, began as a preteen girl's adventure in an alternate version of Oxford. Pullman is a noted fan of Raymond Chandler's advice to writers whose plots get stuck: When in doubt, have a man come through a door with a gun in his hand."
"a fantasy trilogy inspired by John Milton's Paradise Lost but reversing its message, championing experience over innocence and celebrating the fall of man as a liberation. The third book, published five years after the first, more than fulfilled that plan, spanning the globe and the multiverse and culminating in an epic battle, a tragic love story, the plunging of the main character's outrageously sexy parents into a cosmic abyss, and the death of God."
Some readers consider The Amber Spyglass overloaded by the need to resolve the earlier books' complexities, arguing that too much had to be explained for a story that began as a preteen adventure. His Dark Materials intentionally reversed Paradise Lost's message, championing experience over innocence and celebrating the fall of man as liberation. The third book fulfilled that ambition with a multiverse-spanning finale that included an epic battle, a tragic love story, and the death of God. The Book of Dust trilogy adopts a more adult tone and modest aims. The Rose Field follows Lyra Silvertongue's quest across Central Asia to recover her estranged daemon, Pantalaimon. Daemons are externalized animal forms of a human's self or soul.
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