How did you first hear about HDM?

[Will]

Me, my sister won an award at school and picked 'The Subtle Knife' for her book prize. I stole it from her, loved it and read the books in the wrong order... (2-3-1). Silly me.


Wow, a (edit) Witch. Uh, great.

[Nix]

I was given nl for summer reading by parents

[AySz88]

2-book Summer Reading and Responce Journal project. Decided to take two books from the only "Science Fiction" series on the list.

[Tristan]

summer book chat at the library, TGC was on the list.

[Daniel]

Chanukah present from my aunt (the whole series at once).

[katinka]

Recommended by an english teacher who i liked.

[whizkid25468]

Got Northern Lights from the library through random choice. Got lucky that day, if I hadn't have gotten it I'd never even have heard of it. (A moment of silence for all the versions of me in other quantum realities who never read the series )

[Neuro]

This is interesting.

I never even heard of the series until my cousin, who a couple months ago was in Utah helping his sister move out, picked it up (by sheer chance of impulsivness to pass the time while he was there)and began reading the series. When he got back he was towards the end of the Subtle Knife and was telling me a little bit about it.

What caught my attention right away was when he said something about "a guy, who seems kinda evil, is trying to build and army to go to heaven and kill the current god...". This is one of "those" books I thought...I gotta read it. I'm all about being against the natural order of things and breaking the rules! Especially if its about religion.... But I had no idea it was gonna be about a little girl's adventure................

Still damm glad I read it though.

[Shivy]

My friends mum was talking about NL one day when i was sailing.. and i thought it sounded interesting

[TheLadyofShalott]

I picked it up at a used book store one day. Then it stayed on my shelf for 2 weeks

[eloquent]

One holiday I was ill in bed with flu ( ) so to pass the time i picked up the trilogy which I had been given as a birthday present. 1,300 pages and 5 days of solid reading (interrupted only by meals) later I was wondering how I had read it so fast and wishing there were another three books. My life was completely changed and I will never forget how powerfully I was affected by reading HDM. It was amazing! The perfect combination of science, subtle left wing messagery, action and passion.

[Daniel]

so, you got the flu too? i got the flu while reading TSK ( a day after TGC) and my friend got it in the middle of TGC, but he reads slower. i wonder if good books cause a weakened immune system? it's probably just the lack of sleep, though. that and the sitting in one place for hours without moving except to turn the page (or reach for the next book).

[Gabe]

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[Will]

Just like me Did you feel the same as I did, that Will was the main character - not Lyra? I mean, he was the first character I was introduced to and then Lyra joined in.

[Stelmaria]

I was over at a friend's house and she said she had just read the most amazing books. She and I usually like the same books, so I ended up picking up TGC and reading half of it there. Then I begged my mom to buy them for me.

[Shivy]

wow.. thats all like, interesting. I only started reading them because i'm nosey

[Nix]

pretty good summing up that

[Shivy]

yeah.. thanks

[Gabe]

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[Guest]

My mum had the first book and I saw it on her book shelf and I read it ^_^. I thought it was a book for adults (but I already read SF and that was on my dad's book shelf) and then I read it and loved it !! I waited several years for the next book to be translated, and at the end of 2002 I finally saw book 2 and 3 ! It seemed the series was published again, with other covers, by another publisher.