Just Bru

It's been a while since I read a good novel. Too much time.
The chance to atone for this terrible sin was given to me by Lu... uhm, she's been kind of a muse these days...
Anyway, I heard her talking about this "His Darkest Materials" trilogy by Pullman with such enthusiastic words that I simply HAD to read it. :)
Got the first in Italian, then found the whole trilogy in english and bought it this morning.
I'm taking a dive into it as soon as I'll finish this post.

About the books, they're really good. I read the 350 pages of the first book in a couple of hours.
I like the story, linear but not boring; the setting, that are quite original (!) and the fact that, as every good book, you can read it at many different levels.
But the characters.... the characters are simply incredible. Even when describing "alien" creatures like witches or "armored bears", Pullman's words flesh it out perfectly, and you start thinking that it must be real alive and breathing just in front of you.

A better explanation...or "tell me what you read..."

Other than being enthusiasthic at it, Lu often refers to characters and events described in these books when talking about pretty everything...
I thought this could be a good way to start understanding her and her world, in a "gentle way"... at least better than just assail her (like anybody) with 20 (thousand) questions and pretending a committed answer to all of them.
Yep, It looks like the time has come to learn to tame my fiery nature... and I know it's good but I dunno if I'm more excited or afraid of that :)

Just another thing. As I said, I read the first book in a couple of hours. Yes I'm quite a good speed reader. Then I realized something.
Something I won't write here. But I'll switch off my the "turbo" switch for the other two books. It'll take ages, but it's worth it.

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