Quote Originally Posted by Del Murder View Post
I really liked The Golden Compass but my wife says the other two books suck so I just stopped with that one. Still it's pretty good on it's own.
SECONDING this book, it's fantastic. Agreed that the other two are not as good as the first (the second of the trilogy is easily the weakest) but if you like the first a lot it may be worth a readthrough just to see what happens. My biggest problem with the second two books is that the first book is set in this super cool steampunk-inspired world and then the second two spend more time in the "modern" world, or a couple other different parallel worlds, which frankly aren't as interesting to me. Also the author gets "atheist preachy" so if that's not your thing then caveat emptor. But yeah definitely at least read The Golden Compass.