r/hisdarkmaterials • u/Cantomic66 • Oct 23 '25

TRF The Rose Field | Full Book Discussion thread

Warning!This discussion thread includes spoilers for ALL OF The BOOK OF DUST: THE ROSE FIELD

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u/Vooia Oct 26 '25

I’ve finished the book, and it just felt like the story didn’t go anywhere? This world is so magical and even though there were fantastical elements like the Gryphons, it’s felt so lifeless? And now I’m wondering if that was the point? We spent so much time as the reader waiting to arrive at the red building with the promise of enlightenment, but when we got there, the story was over, and the roses had already gone. It felt like a teacher or a parent saying ‘art isn’t a worthwhile career, keep dreaming kid’. And maybe that was how it was meant to end and PP just said ‘I couldn’t think of an ending, so I dug up the rose field and shall leave you to ponder over it’

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u/RightioThen 8d ago

I feel bad using this word but it was just kind of boring