Wednesday Reading Meme

[osprey_archer]

What I’ve Just Finished Reading

Susan Cooper’s Over Sea, Under Stone, the first book in the Dark is Rising sequence, which I actually quite enjoyed. I went into it with such low expectations that I was pleasantly surprised to find it a family adventure story, a la Narnia or Swallows and Amazons or even the Boxcar Children. And with a magical twist

Comments

[asakiyume]

This makes me wonder if I would have liked Over Sea, Under Stone better if I'd come to it first, rather than after The Dark Is Rising.

I'll have to check out The Amber Cat.

[osprey_archer]

I can see how Over Sea, Under Stone would be a huge disappointment if you read it after The Dark is Rising, because they have not only different characters but very different tones.

[carmarthen]

I read Over Sea, Under Stone and really enjoyed it, and then bounced so hard off TDIR I never read the others--I gather most people who read TDIR first don't like OSUS much.

[osprey_archer]

This is somewhat reassuring, because I've been having some trouble getting into The Dark is Rising - because it's just so different. It's almost a pity the books are linked together in a series, because the tone shift is pretty jarring.