Addendum to 'The Dark is Rising' film warning

[sff_corgi_lj]

For those who haven't read the series yet [gasp of shock], TDiR is actually the second book in the five-volume sequence.

Over Sea, Under Stone
The Dark is Rising
Greenwitch
The Grey King
Silver on the Tree

There, go out and be vastly entertained. This series helped me learn my pathetic smattering of Welsh.

Comments

[wyrmwwd.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, this may have to wait until Summer. Something to look forward to!

[panamdea.livejournal.com]

Since I saw the trailer last month I've been meaning to get hold of the books as it sounded fun. I had a horrible feeling that this might be another "Hollywooding" though. Sigh.

[sff-corgi.livejournal.com]

From the Guardian's commentary, more a de-paganising - because, after all, only 'Christians' have proper family values, right?

[panamdea.livejournal.com]

Only Christian American families, surely? Blurgh.

[barsukthom.livejournal.com]

South Central Big-C Christian American families of no more than 3 chilluns.

[erised1810.livejournal.com]

is this the correctreadign order too? or is this one of those occasions ala narnia where you're supposed to stick toreadign thisand this first because the beign-kept-in-the-dark-about-some-plot-points makes it muc hmore fun.

[sff-corgi.livejournal.com]

It's the order of publication; each part builds on the previous, and it alternates (sort of) between the Drew siblings and Will Stanton, with all drawn together at the end.

[erised1810.livejournal.com]

ah. good to know. i'd hate to missred soem stuff and ge things explaiendthat sortof soil for a nunread volume.

[barsukthom.livejournal.com]

And then there is the Apocryphal Willmarillion, which only three people have actually liked.
But it was published in Welsh, using Ogham.

[sff-corgi.livejournal.com]

*SMACK*

The Welsh didn't use Ogham, anyway.

[barsukthom.livejournal.com]

Looney* modern day "druids" would, tho.

*OK, exhibiting adverse influences of too much moonlight.

[alicebentley]

I'd say you could read the first (Over Sea, Under Stone) and the second (The Dark Is Rising) in any order, but the third through the fifth should be read in order.

I really love this series, it rewards re-reading well. And like many books that are marketed as Young Adult, they're also very fast to read through.

[sff-corgi.livejournal.com]

Listen to her, she's a professional bookperson. ;)

Did you get the photo of the new office in Steelhead? BTW, date's set for the 20th, but I'm waiting on feedback on the invitations that I don't seem to be getting, before I 'get them printed'.

[barsukthom.livejournal.com]

And they're british YA, so they're actually well written.

[alicebentley]

Oh I dare say there's as a similar percentage of terrible British SF to American - we just have a larger pool to wade through.

These were all written before the current genre-fication of the field anyway ... YA wasn't even a catagory then.