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The Secret Commonwealth
- The Book of Dust, Volume Two
- Lu par : Michael Sheen
- Durée : 19 h et 43 min
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Brought to you by Penguin.
Shortlisted for Audiobook of the Year at the British Book Awards 2020.
Winner of Best Solo Narration at the New York Festival Radio Awards 2020
It is 20 years since the events of La Belle Sauvage: The Book of Dust Volume One unfolded and saw the baby Lyra Belacqua begin her life-changing journey.
It is almost 10 years since listeners left Lyra and the love of her young life, Will Parry, on a park bench in Oxford's Botanic Gardens at the end of the ground-breaking, best0selling His Dark Materials sequence.
Now, in The Secret Commonwealth, we meet Lyra Silvertongue. And she is no longer a child....
The second volume of Philip Pullman's The Book of Dust sees Lyra, now 20 years old, and her daemon Pantalaimon, forced to navigate their relationship in a way they could never have imagined and drawn into the complex and dangerous factions of a world that they had no idea existed. Pulled along on his own journey too is Malcolm; once a boy with a boat and a mission to save a baby from the flood, now a man with a strong sense of duty and a desire to do what is right.
Theirs is a world at once familiar and extraordinary and they must travel far beyond the edges of Oxford, across Europe and into Asia, in search for what is lost - a city haunted by daemons, a secret at the heart of a desert and the mystery of the elusive Dust.
The Secret Commonwealth is truly a book for our times; a powerful adventure and a thought-provoking look at what it is to understand yourself, to grow up and make sense of the world around you. This is storytelling at its very best from one of our greatest writers.
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“Michael Sheen throws himself wholeheartedly into narrating this sequel to La Belle Sauvage and listeners will be rapt. For the ever-expanding international cast of characters, Sheen conjures a multitude of accents and delivers rapid-fire conversations between them. He's in step with the text at every turn; when situations become fraught or dangerous, Sheen ramps up the tension exquisitely. Thanks to Pullman's intricate storytelling and Sheen's propulsive narration, listeners will be on the edge of their seats right up to the cliff-hanger ending.” (AudioFile)
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- Utilisateur anonyme
- 28/11/2023
perfection
I just cannot wait until the next volume...I hear it is over 500 pages. Like all of Pullman works, i am sure to hang on every word.
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- Sea Dragon 🐉
- 09/08/2023
Cannot Wait for book 3 😭😱
Philip Pullman is one of the most brilliant writers I have ever read. His use of historical dramatic events that actually happened or happening atm is reflecting on his profoundly humanist nature (the issues around refugees, the facts that the very country who let this people die at sea are the very country responsible for all the wars and misery happening to those people, etc.)
The “C.C.D” that is an obvious parallèle with the CCTV in the Uk, the political oppression always growing stronger and more violent, all weaved with mysteries, myths and legends. I absolutely love his books and One thing on my bucket list is or me to be able to meet him one day and thank him because his books really helped me A LOT never to think am crazy for believing in mermaids and fairies and all the invisible world I am very familiar with as a clairvoyant.
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- isadora bicalho
- 11/05/2022
Wonderful as always
I really felt like I was inside the book by this great narrative! The story isn't quite marvellous like the principal books, but it's good to see a continuation with a fine psychology.
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- Lyra
- 08/09/2021
from one of his biggest fans...
it was great, still can't believe Lyra is having a sequel... couldn't ask for more!
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- Vivie
- 01/07/2021
J'aime beaucoup cette trilogie.
Ce livre est accessible avec un bon niveau d'anglais. L'histoire est intéressante et l'écriture intelligente. La performance de Michael Sheen est un enchantement.
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- C Z H
- 18/11/2019
perfect reading, enthralling story
loved it, and the performance by Michael Sheen was perfect. I could have gone on listening for hours.
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- Grace
- 23/10/2019
Expectations were high
After the volume one , the expectations were high, and so was the disappointment.
Still OK, but stretched out thinly, and narrator ruins it by exaggeration.
The end is missing,
I presume that sooner or later the story will continue in a Volume 3, but still, it feels like the the book ends midd sentence, leaving me disappointed.
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- Trex
- 06/11/2019
I Didn't Love It
Missing a lot of the charm shining from La Belle Sauvage
Not a great deal happens
Once upon a time not having a daemon was unthinkable now it's everywhere.
Lyra goes on a journey bouncing from one person who helps her to another
Political Commentary is very thinly veiling (The evil petrol company is called TP)
Malcolm's position is borderline disturbing
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- Ida Fisker
- 29/06/2023
Very enjoyable!
Phillip Pullman has written yet another, amazing book!
Can't wait for the last book!
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- Christina Auerbach
- 25/12/2022
The Secret Commonwealth
I loved this book and can't wait for the next book. it was read beautifully.
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- Sonja
- 16/12/2022
Lyra grows up
The book is superbly written and has several protagonists you want to follow further. However, some scenes are not pretty to read…
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- angela
- 18/10/2022
Whoever complains about Lyra’s accent
Don’t be fooled by watching too many episodes of Inspector Morse, the accent Michael Sheen uses for Lyra is actually far closer to a local Oxford accent than the usually RP dross. I say this as someone who has lived in Oxford my entire life…so stop complaining about it!
Other than that an entirely absorbing book, one less star but it’s not so much for the story, it’s just hard to give 5/5 for the second book in a trilogy where the ending is still open
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- Maya H Saric
- 25/06/2022
Not a real story, the worlds longest intro
I would NEVER have used a credit to buy this book if I had any clue it was not a complete story. It ended mid-sentence with no closure for any of the characters.
The Dark Materials trilogy was firstly honestly advertised as a trilogy and each book stood alone. If I had known this is the start of an infinite series I would have waited till all the books are published to decide If I wanted to invest that many credits.
This half (thrid, quarter???) story was not worth a credit. I would recommend that Mr Pullman take a leaf out of Diana Gabaldon's book who writes great long stories (55 hrs) with as many details as you please yet each book has an ENDING.
Obviously this is triggering.
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- Luna
- 26/06/2021
Missing the magic!
2,5 stars. I only rounded the stars up to three because I managed to finish the book, more out of duty though, than out of interest.
I wanted to finish it mostly because of the Northern Lights trilogy, hoping it would eventually lead to something equally exciting. I didn't like the the direction the story took early on, but I was willing to give it a chance. It wasn't all negative though. The world Philip Pullman has created is truly marvellous and I enjoyed spending more time there, getting to know it better. It was a bit of a nostalgic experience, above all else.
However, the slow paced and depressing storyline wasn't quite rewarding enough, and here is why:
The biggest problem was that the plot was missing a proper arc. The set-up was impatient and the conclusion non-existent. The book felt like a middle without an end. Barely any questions of note were answered and actually, very few were asked in the first place. The last chapter revealed nothing but a cliffhanger, a big "to be continued."
That in itself would not have been such a big problem if the book had been more character driven. I don't mind slow paced, character driven books with little plot, as long as the main protagonist's inner journey makes a significant progress. That wasn't the case here. The book seemed little more than a set-up for the next installation.
The main characters lacked the depth and charisma from the author's previous works from this world. They weren't awful or poorly written. I just never felt properly connected to any of them and couldn't bring myself to care. I was totally unaffected by the hardships and trauma they endured.
A huge factor to this was the presence of too many viewpoint characters. I often like reading books with multiple POV's, but this time their number wasn't justified. The author could easily change the feel and atmosphere to distinguish between each one, but I felt the "extras" took away from the story, instead of adding value to it. There were too many strings pulling in different directions. The information provided through many of the viewpoints wasn't unneccessary. Had it been discovered through the lens of fewer characters, however, it would have been a more immersive experience and given those characters a better chance to grow.
I was disappointed with Lyra, whose main problem was loss of drive, enthusiasm and curiosity, all of which were her most attractive qualities in the previous books. Had she retained those qualities, I could have coped better with her lack of imagination. Instead, I wanted to desert her almost as much as her deamon did.
I was really excited to see Malcolm again. I just wish he had been given more space and a stronger storyline. His journey didn't add much to the story and he didn't get to shine like the hero he was in La belle sauvage. He deserved more and I hope he gets it in the next book.
I'm unsure about reading the third book. On one hand, I want to see Lyra, Pan and Malcolm done justice. I really hope that the issues I had with this book get resolved in the next. On the other hand, I'm afraid it will not, and even worse, that it might ruin the original series for me. I just don't want to leave it like this either.
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- Amazon Customer
- 06/06/2021
disappointing middle part
to be continued ...
Most threads are unresolved and we will have to wait for years
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- Utilisateur anonyme
- 23/02/2021
wonderful!
amazing book. totally captured by imagination just as the original northern lights trilogy did. can't wait for the next one!!
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- Amazon Customer
- 25/10/2019
Disappointed
I should start by saying that I'm an enormous fan of Pullman, I love the original trilogy and have read it many times.
I am disappointed with the new book. don't miss me, it's great, but just a few characters that aren't explored deeply enough are introduced and some plot points are just pushed too much. while in the original books I never knew what was going to happen, here I could predict the book in advance after a few chapters. it feels like instead of having been constructed in the moment, this book had the end or story written first, and then the rest of the chapters was filled in one by one (exaggerated but kinda true) still a fan though, and still liked it
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- Jo W
- 17/01/2020
The secret commonwealth
Exciting to the very end!Typical Pullman, couldn’t stop listening. Very well read. Can‘t wait for the sequel.
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- Andreas Teschner
- 26/10/2019
Back to old form almost
A super cliffhanger and a much more intriguing story than in the last book. Can't imagine any reader will approve of the rater brutish love story clumsily unfolding. Awkward and without any substance. This aside it is especially good as an audio book although some detail in the story is sadly missing. The finaley is a bit out of the blue... Loved it.
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- Amazon Kunde
- 20/06/2023
Tolle und spannende Geschichte
Das Buch ist sehr spannend und nimmt einen mit auf eine fantastische Reise. Hoffentlich kommt die Fortsetzung schnell! 😸
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- Tobias
- 27/07/2021
Boring and without ending
Die Geschichte langatmig und hätte zu Ende gebracht werden sollen. Es fehlt an Spannung und die Personen, auf die Lyra trifft, sind ohne Tiefe und recht simpel zu durchschauen
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- Utilisateur anonyme
- 28/06/2021
not worth it.
Feels like they accidentally published the first manuscript. Not even Michael Sheen can safe it.
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- Lunch
- 05/05/2021
Einfach nur ein großartiges Buch
Der Sprecher: fantastisch
Wer hätte gedacht, dass die Nachfolge-Bücher zu His Dark Materials so gut sind.
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- Amazon Customer
- 22/02/2021
Perfect
A perfect blend of beautiful and thrilling storytelling, magical adventurous plot and brilliant narration.
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- read4fun
- 16/10/2020
outstanding dramatic reading
of a finely woven tale of growing complexity and suspense that forms an excellent companion to the earlier His Dark Materials.
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- Audiophil
- 30/08/2020
Keine Auflösung
Die Geschichte ist spannend und dem Sprecher kann ich stundenlang zuhören
Es hätte problemlos 5 Sterne kriegen können - hätte es zumindest eine Teil-Auflösung gegeben!
Zu viele Stränge sind offen geblieben, das Ende ist komplett unbefriedigend.
Zwar kann man erahnen ob Lyra ihr erstes Ziel erreicht haben wird (von zweien), aber nicht das WIE welches in diesem Zusammenhang wirklich eine zentrale Frage ist.
Das ist zu wenig, ein wirklich schlechter Cliffhanger der eine mit einem schalen Gefühl zurück lässt.
Bei der His Dark Materials- Trilogie ist am Ende eines jeden Buches zumindest ein Teilabschnitt beendet, eine kleine Auflösung gegeben, die dann dazu beflügelt auf den jeweils nächsten Band zu warten
Hier aber fühle ich mich leer und unbefriedigt
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