After reading Courtnix's review, I've decided to go check out the movie based on Pullman's first book in the His Dark Materials series, and then perhaps the books themselves. Heck, it's almost worth paying just to see RR folks get apoplectic over the earnings and popularity of it.
My Golden Compass daemon is called Arphenia, a raccoon. I am "modest, a leader, assertive, shy and spontaneous." Those seem a little incongruent, but whatever.