Is anyone else here a fan of Pullman? When I say I'm big fan, I mean that I have most of his books, but I'd not be as in to his work as Pratchett's.

His books are:

His Dark Materials
1. Northern Lights (called The Golden Compass in USA)
2. The Subtle Knife
3. The Amber Spyglass

Related book: Lyra's Oxford

Contemporary novels
1. The Broken Bridge
2. The Butterfly Tattoo

The Sally Lockhart quartet
1. The Ruby in the Smoke
2. The Shadow in the North
3. The Tiger in the Well
4. The Tin Princess

The New Cut Gang
1. Thunderbolt's Waxwork
2. The Gas-Fitters' Ball

Books with pictures and fairy tales
1. The Scarecrow And His Servant
2. Spring-Heeled Jack
3. Count Karlstein
4. The Firework-Maker's Daughter
5. I Was A Rat!
6. Puss in Boots
7. Mossycoat
9. Aladdin
10. Clockwork

Published plays
1. Frankenstein (adaptation)
2. Sherlock Holmes and the Limehouse Horror

I've read all the His Dark Materials books including Lyra's Oxford. The only other book I've read by him is Count Karlstein, very good. Would have loved to seen the play

is he the guy who's so rabidly anti-christian that he went out of his way to make Satan the protagonist in one of his books?

"If I wanted to read Wuthering Heights, I'd shoot my self."

what's wrong with that?

I thought His Dark Materials was brilliantly written, especially Northern Lights.
The spin-off, Lyra's Oxford, is ok; contains a short story about Lyra.

The 4 sally lockhart books are very good, being based in England circa the start of the 20th century. I love books whose story takes place in that time. Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes springs to mind. Oh, and Pullman also isn't afraid to kill off good guys.

Pullman also, remarkably, can write so well for kids under 10. I have some of those books but theyre a bit too childish for me.

Strangely enough I just bought Northern Light today for 50p from a jumble sale. I've had the second two books for ages so it was pretty cool to see the first one right there for half a quid, I'll start reading them this week I think.

Dragon's Kingdom - Stop typing "alot" when you mean "a lot"! - Disappointed

I hadn't realised he had written so many!
I was loaned the His Dark Materials trilogy, which I quite enjoyed, the first one especially, after that though it seemed to go a little downhill.
Well worth 50p anyway Mal! Nice one...

i loved his dark materials and ive also read the sally lockhart books except for the last one i didn't even know it existed now ill have to go hunt it down.

Thanks

I heard from a friend that they are going to make a movie out of the series. Did anyone else hear about this?

I hadn't heard that, I wouldn't be surprised though - they are very popular. I have seen that the Artemis Fowl books might be movied, haven't read those but from what I hear you either loath them or love them.

Dragon's Kingdom - Stop typing "alot" when you mean "a lot"! - Disappointed

I haven't read the Artemis Fowl books either but I heard some very good things about them from my friends. I might check out the movie to see what it is all about. Will their be a movie on Terry's books?

I love Artemis Fowl. Lovelovelove. And if anyone else loves them, you might want to give The Bartimaeus Trilogy a try. Amazing series. Similar taste.

There are a lot of news concerning that in the various, book related threads (for example the casting related ones in the DEATH-forum. If I got it correctly, all of the films in planning are TV-productions, and us non-British people will, at least for another while, be deprived of seeing them.
But as said, just browse the book forums, and you will stumble across some info.

"Hoher Sinn liegt oft im kindischen Spiel." (Friedrich Schiller)

The movie versions of The Dark Materials and Artemis Fowl both seem to be going ahead.

I have all 4 Artemis books in first edition, so hoping he becomes huge worldwide via the movie, and then I can sell off my books for lots of money!

Eoin Colfer writes those books so well, though I thought the first 2 books were better than the last 2.

His Dark Materials was great.

I think that Pullman probably ties with Lemony Snickett as my favorite author for "perple of all ages."