It's bad that they had to change the name to the Golden Compass. Bloody americans, as if it wasn't bad enough telling us we had to call opal fruits something else, where will it end?

Superb books though, it'd be a shame to miss out on them Corwin. I wouldn't have said that they would particularly offend anyone's faith (barring the nutboxes in the states, but I think that's because they want to be offended). It's more of an attack on the oppressive nature of many institutions that have grown around religions than on the underlying belief system itself.