Customer Reviews
Excellent adaptation - By: Martin C, 20 Nov 2007 
This is a wonderful adaptation. The acting is really great - the voices are perfectin my mind, particularly Lyra, Will, Mrs. Coulter, the gyptians... Lord Asriel's seems perhaps strange to start with, but before long he seems great for the job. I agree with the above that the adaptations could have merited from being a bit longer - but having read the books & then listened to these it's not actually that noticable. The adapters have done wellin condensing it to this space, spending most time on the most important bits - the end of the first book, for example. The adapters clearly have a great love of the book & Lavinia Murray has done a great job into adapting into two CDs worth, & the acting is really great. Highly recommended!
The Mind Boggles... - By: , 15 Jul 2004 This is an engrossing & thought provoking book, that has been transformed into an engrossing & thought provoking audio adaption. It certaininly made me look forward to sittingin traffic on the way to work.
Pullman's imagination & radical ideas are well worth the listen, & this BBC recording does it justice.
I highly recommend it.
Silence from Eastbourne to Birmingham - By: , 07 Jun 2004 We've only listened to Northern Lights so far, but the only sound I heard from the back of the car for the whole three hour journey was a moan of disappointment when I pulledin the services & turned the car stereo off.
Bliss at any price !
Too short! - By: , 10 Sep 2003 
Though this is a very good dramatisation it is simply too short to do the books justice. Each book is given two-and-a-half hours which, while it gets across the essentials of plot & character development, is not sufficient to convey the depth & nuances of Pullman's writing. The acting is excellent, comparable,in my opinion, to thatin the BBC's dramatisation of The Lord of the Rings. However, I have to say that I do prefer the Cover 2 Cover full cast unabridged readings of the books to this dramatisation.
The best since Tolkien - By: P A Lancaster, 24 Mar 2003 The books to read were utterly amzing & now this has been bought to lifein the talking books. The story is one of true mastery equalled only by J RR Tolkiens visionsin his trilogy & his books on middle earth.
The story of Lyra really comes to life & we can so easily understand her, & her growing, as the character develops.
This is a must for both adults & children alike who enjoy drifting off into other worlds & experiencing new, exciting & most of the time dangerous adventures.
A thumbs up from me!!
