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I thought it was called the Northern Lights or something along those lines, and the movie was called the Golden Compass. Anyway this is a great series.
Comment by [deleted] at 30/09/2009 at 14:34 UTC
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This is one of those territorial things. Known as Golden Compass here in the States, Northern Lights elsewhere. Kinda like the whole Philosopher's Stone/Sorceror's Stone naming thing.
Comment by [deleted] at 30/09/2009 at 15:37 UTC
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It was a dumb mistake on behalf of the American publishers. The original title of the series was "The Golden Compasses", a reference to Milton's Paradise Lost (as is the current title of the series), and the American publishers thought this referred to the object in the book known as the Alethiometer. When Pullman scrapped the title "The Golden Compasses" in favour of "His Dark Materials", the American publishers somehow thought that meant the title of the first book was "The Golden Compass".
Or something to that effect.
Comment by nyc_ifyouare at 30/09/2009 at 16:47 UTC
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the title was regional. In America it was The Golden Compass.