If you liked Pullman's trilogy, you might also like The Da Vinci Code - though to me (sorry, critique coming) both of them suffered from a common male problem: they set up the idea that the woman is the Christ figure, and then, baffled as to why this should be so, scratch their heads and say - "oh yeah, women have children, *that* must be why she's important!" - whereas if they had a male Christ figure he would have been saving the world as and of himself! This completely subverts both stories for me. I put them down with a disgusted "pshaw!", having enjoyed the story most of the way through.)