The Republic of Heaven

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Hi, Night! Welcome to the forum. Please do stick with the trilogy; I don't know why everyone else dislikes The Subtle Knife - I recently re-read it, and I think it's great. Let us know your thoughts when you've finished!

Thanks for the welcome. c:
I'm almost through The Golden Compass again; I'll be buying The Subtle Knife for my Kindle soon (I usually would get them from the library when I'd read, but I want the trilogy for myself in some way, shape, or form).

Glad to see this place isn't totally dead, haha.

Hello Night! Welcome! I think the transition from the first to second book can be a bit weird because of the total shift in characters at the beginning of The Subtle Knife. BUT... it's worth it!

Grammar Nazis are loved and appreciated here. We have a fair share of those.

What other books do you like besides HDM?

Hi, Bee!

I'm glad to see that the ability to write properly is appreciated here. ^n.n^

Other books? Well...

I like Harry Potter, The Inheritance Cycle, The Hobbit (working on LoTR), Tailchaser's Song, The Pendragon Adventure, The Chronicles of Vladamir Tod... I also enjoy pretty much any novel written by Cornelia Funke or Michael Crichton. Warriors is a guilty pleasure as of late, because the fandom tap-dances on my nerves, and the books aren't as good as they used to be.
I also like various other books scattered across all genres, but I can't think of any outstanding ones at the moment. As a whole I tend to like fantasy and sci-fi, and I usually turn my nose up at historical fiction. At the moment, other than reading HDM, I'm trying to get into some classic authors such as Mark Twain.

Michael Crichton is grand. But I didn't like his last books as much as his older ones.

I noticed you liked a bunch of the fan art we have... Do you do any of your own?

I don't have any HDM fanart, though I may try my hand sometime. I do draw; it's just focused on other things.

http://pokebreeder123.deviantart.com
http://www.furaffinity.net/user/night-san

Granted, most of my recent art hasn't been uploaded on there because my scanner is broken, and lately I've been putting digital art aside for more exploration of traditional. I'm hoping that I can get some of my new stuff on soon; I've been getting decent with my Prismacolors.

EDIT: Examples of some of my best-

Digital: http://www.antifaro.com/images/Ventisia ... der123.png
(A few years old, but not half bad. It's the most current thing I have hosted on antifaro, so it's the best example I could give at the moment.)

Traditional: http://www.antifaro.com/images/Ventisia/photo0364.jpg
(Photo is terrible quality because it was taken with my phone, makes it look much sloppier and less detailed than it actually is... I spent hours on those scales, and sadly it can't be seen much in this. D:)

Sprite/pixel: http://www.antifaro.com/images/Ventisia ... xellay.png
(One of my better sprites, though it was done awhile ago with a mouse. I don't do spriting very often...)

welcome, night! i like the gifs in your signature (will check out the art when i'm not on a work computer. i've learned not to click links unless i have total privacy!).
as the others are saying, do please give the subtle knife a chance. it has fighting and spells and similar desperate intrigue to northern lights, besides which i don't know how the amber spyglass could possibly make sense without it.

Thanks! Haha, the GIFs aren't mine; I pulled those off of Google. I should probably put copyrights in my sig... >_> Or create my own, which I'm capable of doing given time.

I'm currently in the middle of reading The Subtle Knife right now. I'm finding it less boring than last time, at least, so I think I don't have to worry. I'm rather enjoying it.