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652: A Long Zoom

The Incomparable Mothership

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The Golden Compass by Phillip Pullman - Book Review

"It could have been a lot shorter. I think it could have been could have been two books," he says of the series by Phillip Pullman. "I couldn't imagine reading it. I just with my eyeballs, I think they would have blood and I it was good, but it could have used a great many cuts." The book is 400 pages longer than Neil Stevenson's "Anithm", which has its own issues.

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