Comments on: The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper

By: jackie

jackie — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 06:03:13 +0000

thanks for sharing. i just finished his dark materials and loved them; will check the library for this one (these). take care.

By: Kesey

Kesey — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 20:39:17 +0000

Review of the movie here:

http://www.pajiba.com/seeker-the-dark-is-rising-the.htm

Alas, it seems to be all that everyone feared it would be.

By: Lien

Lien — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 21:32:16 +0000

I loved those books. I read them as a teenager. I heard a movie adaptation was coming out, but I didn’t know about those changes! That’s outrageous. The books are set in Britain, with a background and backstory of one of Britain’s best known cultural and historical legends. Will’s Englishness is important! But there’s no point in me ranting here.

I will say I read it as an American teenager who’d never left California, and I managed to understand and enjoy the story, dammit. I think the movie bigwigs underestimate people, sometimes.

By: Aileen

Aileen — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 15:42:20 +0000

Ooooh I read ‘The Dark Is Rising’ when I had just turned 13. I got it as a present when I was in hospital with a ruptured appendix. It really frightened me. So much so, I never read it again. The bit where death or… that guy… takes the golden hair off the boy’s sister’s clothes, and the boy suddenly realises what’s going to happen? Chilling. Twelve years later and it still gives me a shiver.

I must have a look at the collection, I’d probably really enjoy them now that I have a house alarm, double locks and a bigger teddy :D

By: India

India — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 19:35:57 +0000

I, too, read these books when a younster - guess I’ll be giving the movie a miss….
India

By: melanie

melanie — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 13:41:33 +0000

I read that series as a kid - it’s one of the few kids series that I can actually say I did read (I seemed to have missed most of them until I was an adult). And I loved it! There were only 4 books at the time so I don’t think I have ever read the 5th one which is something I should look into. And you are right - his age and Englishness IS very important and I was terribly disappointed when I saw the preview. You would think with the success of Harry Potter and The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe the makers would realize that not everything needs to be American!