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Summary: Excellent
Review: It is a great book it has very good adventure and emotional roller coaster and a good conflict I loved it and i think it's good for all 6-7th graders (yes i did perposely write no puctuaction)
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Summary: OK but somewhat boring read!
Review: OK..not a bad book,but we read it in class.and its not a book we wanted to keep on reading and reading and reading,i mean some of the chapters are good but the rest are extremely boring..i wouldn't recommend this book to anyone,if u want a great read read orson scott card or george orwell books not these.
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Summary: This poem is told at the start of the book, I love this book
Review: On the day of the dead when the year too dies the youngest must open the oldest of the hills throught the door of the birds where the breeze breaks. And there shall fly the raven boy, the siliver eyes that see the wind, and the light shall have the harp of gold. On kafatan's (?) lake the sleepers lie, On kestrals's (?) way the the the kestral's call, though grim the grey king shadows fall. Yet singing the golden harp shall guide to break their sleep and bid them ride. When the light from the lost land shall return, six sleepers shall ride six signs shall burn, and when the midsummer trees grow tall by pendreting's sword, the dark shall fall!
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Summary: Read it in class..BORING!!
Review: some of the chapters were good but most of them were just so boring! I mean its not like a book where you wanted to keep on reading and never put down. if you want a good read read a george orwell or orson scott card book not this one.
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Summary: The Grey King
Review: Susan Cooper did a wonderful job on The Grey King. It was very mysterious. It was about a boy named Will and a boy named Bran who need to stop an evil magical king and his followers. Or else the world will be in peril. They are the only ones who can stop him!
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Summary: Adventerous. Intrest-holding.
Review: Susan Cooper has the inspiring way of writing that connects to young readers. She has the amazing talent of portraying the battles between good and evil. Tolkien had it. So did C.S. Lewis. But the Dark is Rising series is right up there with them.
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Summary: A Magical Read
Review: The book opens with a Welsh poem: "On the day of the dead,when the year too dies/Must the youngest open the oldest hills/Throughthe door of the birds, where the breeeze breaks..." A beatiful, mystical and magical beginning to a beatiful, mystical and magical book.We see Will Stanton, a seemingly normal English boy struck terribly ill, go to Wales to visit his aunt and uncle to recuperate, where he will have the adventure of perhaps a lifetime, sweeping everybody around him, including the reader into it. As we read of his quest to awaken the Sleepers, we learn a little Welsh culture, history, and language. We feel the emotions of the characters involved; experience their sorrow, bewilderment, hatred and joy. We dabble in a little High Magic, and realize the presence of the Dark, and the Light's endless struggle against it. One of the great things about this book is that you don't have to read the other parts of the series to understand, and become swept up in the magic of it. Even though it's the second to last book, it was the first I read of the series. It speaks for itself. If you liked C. S. Lewis's "The Chronicles of Narnia", you'll probably enjoy these books. It's the same struggle between good and evil told in a new way, and though I think this series is the easier read, it loses nothing off it's competion. Diolch yn fawr!
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Summary: A good book, but not great
Review: The Greay King, and Suan Cooper's series as a whole, is good, but not great. It is certainly a beautiful tale. The story is set in Wales and is related to the Arthurian legends, in the discussion of the Pendragon, and in other ways also. The book is calm, and quiet. At times, though, it is a little too calm and quiet. Great fantasy, in my opinion, should at least give us a glimpse of some overarching conflict. If the fantasy is truly great, the sides should not be clear cut. This series suffers from the fate of many others: original and good writing, but not truly special. Its alright to talk about Light versus Dark, but the conflict has to give us a sense of awe at the way events are going. It has to evoke a response from us. Tolkien does this well; so does Philip Pullman in the His Dark Materials series. The conflict here only picks up at the very end; even then the images I associated with this book are too pure and the Light side is also too bland. The book I first read, The Dark is Rising, was written better, in my opinion. Give this book a try. But it certainly isn't near the top of the fantasy genre. If you liked The Dark is Rising, you might be a little disappointed in this book.
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Summary: Another Thriller
Review: The Grey King is another teriffic book by Susan Cooper! It upholds its predecessors in its amazing contrast of fantasy and reality. When Will Stanton goes to Wales to recouperate after a serious illness, he encounters very strange events, as well as a new quest for the youngest of the Old Ones. He meets a boy named Bran with his dog Cafall on a Welsh hillside. Will and Bran become friends, and Will discovers that Bran knows about his true identity and his latest quest for the magical harp. When a fire starts on a nearby hillside, Will and Bran discover the destiny of their first quest together. As Bran chases who he thinks to be Cafall, who was lost, Will knows that the grey fox, a deputy of the Grey King, lord of the Dark, is around. The series of events leads to the discovery of the harp inside Bird Rock. I would tell you about the mysterious second half of the book,but the whole point of this review is to convince you to read this book, so READ THIS BOOK TODAY and you will soon know about the second half of this book which will thrill you like all of Susan Cooper's books!
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Summary: The Grey End
Review: The Grey King, by Susan Cooper is a book about adventure. This book revolves around a boy named Will Stanton. The boy is the age of twelve and is sent to Whales to be nursed back to health by his relatives. During this time, he goes on quests or adventures to awaken the ancient sleepers. The ancient sleepers are the last hope for good to prevail against evil. This evil is controlled by The Grey King who tries to stop Will from completing his quests.
In the story I can relate most to BRan becasue he is the mysterious boy who is different from all the other people. I used to be like this when I was going through middle school. I was the kid who was just a little more differnt than your average kid. Bran displays this perfectly with his pale skin and mysterious appearances.
Overall, this book was a good book. My least favorite part was the end, maybe becasue I thought the end was a little too rushed. There seemed to be a lot of information being crammed into a few pages which made it hard to understand. This gave it an unpleasant end.
This book would be good for readers who like adventure or mystical stories. To me, it seems like a twsit between The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien and The High King by Alexander Lloyd. If you like either of those books I strongly advise you to check out The Grey King by Susan Cooper.
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