I don't have a problem with the way the Golden Compass was marketed at all, actually. I feel that the last third of the final book got lost in the point that Pullman was trying to make rather than best serving the story--but I wonder how much of that was because I knew he was creating the anti-Narnia in advance, due to interviews I had read with him. The trilogy was actually much better than I'd expected from the reviews, and I was only disappointed by the tail end.

So actually, completely unrelated thoughts. If I'd realized I was going to be double posting last night, I would have separated them into multiple posts.