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Summary: These books are the best!!!!
Review: I just finished reading the last one "Silver on the tree" and its really good.Anyone who loves fantasy like me will love Susan Coopers series. The books are about the efforts of the Dark to take over the world and how the Light must stop them.The combination of adventure and fantasy is excellent!
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Summary: Reading these books was a pivotal moment in my literary life
Review: Few series of books can qualify as a pivotal point in a young person's life, but that is exactly what "The Dark Is Rising" sequence was for me. I found "The Grey King" in high school, and never stopped looking until I found the rest of the series. My tastes in reading, and, indeed, many other aspects of my life, were strongly influenced by this superb fantasy series.
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Summary: One of best series I read as child during high school!
Review: I was 15 when I started reading the books and was instantly transported to Great Britain. I pouted quite a bit when I could not find Over Stone Under Sea in the series. It drove me nuts trying to figure out what was missing in that series. It was only later during college that I found all of the books. I happily settled in and read them all. It was a wonderful evocation of a childhood that was innocent and sweet despite the hardships I went through dealing with mainstreaming. I loved the books and wanted them for myself. I could not find any books on the market for a long time for almost ten years till now. I am 27 now and in grad school. I still love those books and wish that they are out in the bookstores.
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Summary: Books that you remember for decades
Review: I first read Susan Cooper's books in junior high school (12-14 years old). After finding 1 or 2 in the library of our small, rural school, I searched the city library to find the rest of the series. I have not had an opportunity to re-read these magical books for many years but the stories and characters keep returning to my thoughts. Over 15 years later, I still get excited and have a smile on my face at the thought of being able to read them again. I recommend these books to anyone of any age who enjoys fantasy, magic, Authurian legend or just 'cool stuff' to any degree. Thank you, thank you, thank you to Susan Cooper. And thank you Amazon Books for having them.
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Summary: The Dark is Rising Sequence
Review: Having re-read The Dark is Rising every Christmas since I was a child, one of my best friends Susan getting married to a Mr Cooper seemed too good an opportunity to miss! And I hope their children will enjoy them as much as I did.
If you like your fantasy set in as ordinary a world as possible, you'll adore these books. Kids squabbling and listening to the radio are interspersed with a perfectly logical and filled -out parallel world.
I doubt there are many eleven year olds who will read it and not wish to be an 'Old One'- subtly different and special in a magical way your siblings and parents will never understand! (Well, it's that age, isn't it?)
The scene in The Dark is Rising when Will wakes to a white, empty mediaeval world for the first time is, I think, readily comparable with Lewis or Alan Garner, and breathtaking in how readily it admits you behind somebody else's eyes.
If you read the books and enjoy them, can I also recommend 'Tom's Midnight Garden' by Penelope Lively?
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Summary: Ms. Cooper triumphs over the Dark with her thrilling quintet
Review: The wonderful adventures of several children reach into Britain's past to the legendary reign of King Arthur. In a quest reminiscient of that of the Knights of the Round Table's, the children must find the Holy Grail and with it, fight the Dark and let the Light prosper across Earth. Ms. Cooper, with a little help from the wizard Merlin, has deftly weaved a delightfully enrapturing tale of the ever-present struggle between Dark and Light
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Summary: A DELVE INTO AN INTRIGUING WORLD OF POWER AND MAGIC
Review: THE DARK IS RISING SEQUENCE IS A BRILLIANT SERIES OF BOOKS ON THE BATTLE OF TWO FORCES - DARK AND LIGHT. WHILST THE DARK FORMS ITS PLAN TO CONTROL THE WORLD, THE MEMBERS OF THE CIRCLE OF LIGHT SEARCH FOR 'THINGS OF POWER' - A GRAIL, SIX SIGNS, A HARP AND A CRYSTAL SWORD. THEIR SEARCH, CONDUCTED BY DIFFERENT CHARACTERS IN DIFFERENT BOOKS, LEADS THEM TO THE CLIFFS OF CORNWALL, THROUGH THE MOUNTAINS OF WALES AND FINALLY TO A CONFRONTATION IN THE CHILTERN HILLS. IT IS AN ENCHANTING SERIES, IDEAL FOR CHILDREN FROM 10 YEARS OLD, BUT ONE THAT WILL BE TREASURED BY THEM FOR YEARS TO COME. I READ THE SECOND BOOK AT THE TENDER AGE OF TEN, AND NOW HAVE MY OWN SET OF THE FIVE, WHICH I RE-READ ALL THE TIME!!!
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Summary: The Susan Cooper books are WONDERFUL
Review: Susan Cooper did a really good job in this book. Though about the only
drawback is that you usally have to read the books twice
to really understand what goes on with them and who the characters
are and what they stand for. I got really caught up in the books after I stupidly read the only one our library had- the last one in the saga,
Silver on the Tree!!!! After that I read Greenwitch, witch got
really annoying when Barney starts going: "I don't like Will,
he stinks." And things like that when you are practilly screaming
at him to wise up a bit. I would have deducted a point but I thought
that the storyline itself was worth 10 points. Good and bad forces
clashing together in a fierce yet civilized battle with plenty
of sespense, wonderment, and awe to keep you on the edge of your seat
wondering what will happen next. Overall, the entire series is
a big sucess. And so is her other book, Boggart.
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Summary: Coopers Masterpeices
Review: When I first picked up the Grey King at my school, the crisp
pages indicated that no one had even noticed it. I decided to read
it. In a few days the suspense had drawn me so that I hated to
put it down. I was misreble when reading class was over. Once
I finished it I was hooked. I am currently reading the Dark is Rising and
love it. I am begging my reading teacher to buy the rest of the series.Once you pick them up your hooked
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Summary: The Best Books I Have Ever Read!!!!
Review: I first opened Over Sea, Under Stone eight years ago. I read all five books in the sequence in less than five days! I was only ten years old then. The celtic myth mixed with modern mystery is the best I have ever read. This is the only set of books I've ever read in which I cry every time I read it.
I just don't know what to say about these books, except that they are awesome! I read them every year! These books made Susan Cooper my favorite author
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