![]() There is, however, criticism that the first book, Over Sea, Under Stone, doesn’t live up to the rest of the series, being a far too obvious children’s story, almost unrelated to the later, greater sequence. The Sequence has been praised, and by people whose opinions to tend to alert mine, such as Neil Gaiman. At the time, I borrowed it in individual volumes, never more than one at a time, which suggests to me that either they were sufficiently popular that it was hard to get each succeeding book when I’d finished with its predecessor, or else that I wasn’t that into them that I had to read the full story. ![]() The latest of these is Susan Cooper’s The Dark is Rising Sequence, as it’s commonly known and is indeed titles on the paperback omnibus I obtained through eBay for the purpose. I am curious about whether I still find them appealing, and if this is for more than nostalgia for the times I associate them with. Since 2014, when I went in search of books I had once read and re-read enthusiastically from Didsbury, I began an occasional series about re-discovering such books after something like thirty years. Trout Nation – Your One-Stop Procrastination Stop.Wednesday Morning Sitcom Time: Last of the Summer Wine s01 e04-06: Spring Fever/The New Mobile Trio/Hail Smiling Morn Or Thereabouts.Wing Commander (Robert) Jeffrey Hawke (Part 1) *Guest Post* Garth Groombridge’s Fictional British Spacemen of the 1950s and 1960s: R.A.F.The Infinite Jukebox: Blue Angel’s ‘I’m Gonna Be Strong’. ![]()
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