the dark is filming
Apr. 14th, 2007 09:15 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tinpraso while looking up trivia info for random point winning (don't ask) i noticed two things about one of my fave Young Adult scifi/fantasy series: The books have a completely new cover. (The last few publishings have just changed the dimensions of the book, but it's visually stayed the same otherwise.) Aaaand...it's being made into a movie series!
What, pray tell, is this abfab series that i am ever so in love with? why Susan Cooper's The Dark is Rising sequence of course. i cam across it in, oh, junior high or early high school thanks to a random show on PBS which i cannot now remember. then i think Mom got one of the books for her students at the time and i devoured the book and bought the rest of the series whenever i had enough money.
Since the HP books have gone all big screen - and even before that - i'd thought Cooper's books would really work. Even though they're YA, they're actually a little more dark and heavy than the HP books. They're all pretty short in typical YA style of the time since it seems like it's only more recently that YA books have topped 200-300 pages at the extreme. And with them being so short there's not a lot of room for "filler" or "worldbuilding." JKR does a lot of worldbuilding for us in the HP world. Since Cooper bases her story on a lot of British mythology in one way she doesn't need to do as much. It's funny, though, I read the Amazon.com reviews and there are people who praise The Dark is Rising sequence by trashing JKR's effort, and others who trash the sequence by praising JKR. *shrugs* Why they both can't be good in their own right, I don't know.
Anywho, read The Dark is Rising!
What, pray tell, is this abfab series that i am ever so in love with? why Susan Cooper's The Dark is Rising sequence of course. i cam across it in, oh, junior high or early high school thanks to a random show on PBS which i cannot now remember. then i think Mom got one of the books for her students at the time and i devoured the book and bought the rest of the series whenever i had enough money.
Since the HP books have gone all big screen - and even before that - i'd thought Cooper's books would really work. Even though they're YA, they're actually a little more dark and heavy than the HP books. They're all pretty short in typical YA style of the time since it seems like it's only more recently that YA books have topped 200-300 pages at the extreme. And with them being so short there's not a lot of room for "filler" or "worldbuilding." JKR does a lot of worldbuilding for us in the HP world. Since Cooper bases her story on a lot of British mythology in one way she doesn't need to do as much. It's funny, though, I read the Amazon.com reviews and there are people who praise The Dark is Rising sequence by trashing JKR's effort, and others who trash the sequence by praising JKR. *shrugs* Why they both can't be good in their own right, I don't know.
Anywho, read The Dark is Rising!