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The Dark Is Rising (The Dark Is Rising Sequence)
by Susan Cooper
from Simon Pulse

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• The coloring of England at Christmas has some redeeming quality
  Just recently this book came across my radar by being recommended by a friend as his favorite yearly christmas read, and then through a lot of discussion groups in several fantasy reading forums. I delve into Young Adult on occasion, especially those old favorites I discovered when I was one.
  Now as a jaded adult I notice things differently. How convenient our hero in this case has his problems and solutions laid out for him. He is never more than a few minutes walk from his home as all the puzzles to... more info

• read it!
  this is one of my all time favorite books. its meant for a younger generation of readers but the way cooper writes is superb and is equivalent to any literary genius. certain pages in this book still give me goosebumps no matter how many times i've read them.

• An Interesting and Welcome Second in the Series
  Will Stanton turns eleven on midwinter's eve...and up until now, he's led a normal, if somewhat hectic life as the seventh (and youngest) child in his normal family. It is on this, his eleventh birthday, that he finds out he is anything but normal and also the beginning of a series of events that will help him define the man he will become. While I did thoroughly enjoy The Dark is Rising...I think the greatest draw for this book (and the series as a whole) is for children (or young adults if you prefer),... more info

• Don't judge these books by the movie !!!
  This series of books (especially, The Dark is Rising) is one of my favorites. The recent movie, The Seeker, based on The Dark is Rising, did not do the book justice. The moviemakers attempt to modernize the story, take out some of the mythological aspects, and add in some teenage angst trivialized the character of Will Stanton (the Seeker of the Signs), whose appeal is in part based on his dual nature as an ordinary 11 year old boy and the last of the Old Ones (immortals charged with the defending the Light... more info

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