I liked Amber Spyglass... but that's probably because I decided to interpret it only on its merits as a story and ignore its Aesops. Not the best ending to the trilogy possible, but I enjoyed it and still do.
I was more annoyed at first because he left a couple of plot threads dangling, and because Iorek Byrnison got to do nothing cool, and because I kind of hated Lord Asriel and Mrs. Coulter and looked askance at their heroic and redemptive sacrifice, and because I thought the end was the most outrageous diabolus ex machina to have ever diabolus ex machina'd... Basically, I was really disappointed, and then realizing later that I had kinda been personally insulted was pretty much the icing on the FAIL cake.
Temeraire, Book 1: His Majesty's Dragon (http://www.amazon.com/His-Majestys-Dragon-Temeraire-Book/dp/0345481283/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1241535842&sr=1-1). It's the Napoleonic war on AU Earth with DRAGONS! AND it's really well written.
AUs with dragons are almost as awesome as space-dinosaur Shakespeare.
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I was more annoyed at first because he left a couple of plot threads dangling, and because Iorek Byrnison got to do nothing cool, and because I kind of hated Lord Asriel and Mrs. Coulter and looked askance at their heroic and redemptive sacrifice, and because I thought the end was the most outrageous diabolus ex machina to have ever diabolus ex machina'd... Basically, I was really disappointed, and then realizing later that I had kinda been personally insulted was pretty much the icing on the FAIL cake.
Temeraire, Book 1: His Majesty's Dragon (http://www.amazon.com/His-Majestys-Dragon-Temeraire-Book/dp/0345481283/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1241535842&sr=1-1). It's the Napoleonic war on AU Earth with DRAGONS! AND it's really well written.
AUs with dragons are almost as awesome as space-dinosaur Shakespeare.