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[sheikah]

Obviously still feel blech. Finally trying to get through my backlog of books I've bought and never read, so I read Susan Cooper's "Over Sea, Under Stone" and now I'm going to read The Dark is Rising.

The first book was a little too simple for me but I'm hoping the next one is good.

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[ashkitty]

Don't worry--OSUS is definitely oversimple. It was written ten years before the rest of the series, because Susan Cooper set out to write a Famous Five-style kids' mystery, and then later it all became something else. It's important to read OSUS, because the Drew children and the Grail will turn up again (and of course Merriman), but it's not one I go re-read often or anything. I think I've read it three times, ever? (Whereas the others I pretty much read yearly.)

[sheikah]

Ohhhh okay. I remember you and Jess used to play the ones from Dark is Rising and I was all "WHERE IS WILL STANTON DAMN YOU." So now I feel a good bit better that I've not picked up the wrong books.

OSUS read almost like The Magician's Nephew to me. Important for backstory but full of people I didn't really care too much about >.>

[ashkitty]

Yes, very like! That is how I feel about Magician's Nephew too. ;) But you are about to see Will, now. :)

[sheikah]

Yay! I am trying to do my poor neglected tags (at least one round of them) before I disappear into the land of books once more.

[ashkitty]

I have been tired and trying to get to sleep for a while, so will get yours back in the morning. :)

[thene]

oh hi, my bff always used to adore your DIR slashfics, and had me read one of them even though I've never read the books. He told me if I ever did read them I should skip OSUS entirely :P

[ashkitty]

Aww, thanks! :)

I used to tell people that too--I do now think they should go together, but OSUS isn't necessary really. I read it the last of all of them (because it was the 80s and I was reading them in the order I could find them in the local libraries, rather than their actual order) and that seemed to make sense for filling in backstory. IDK, books 2, 4 and 5 are my favourites. I think The Grey King is probably my top one.

[summersdream]

Omg Dark is Rising is much less simple. I loved loved loved those books so much when I was a kid. And then they made that atrocious movie. D: I can't wait to see what you think of TDIR.