Just finished Susan Cooper's Silver on the Tree and the full Dark is Rising Sequence. A fascinating collection that follows that tradition of merging English folklore with Arthurian Legend. One of those books that I'd always looked at down through the years but for some reason never got around to reading.
For my money it leaves Rowling's Harry Potter in the dust. The quality of writing is an order of magnitude better than those books. Even though it's a fairly standard tale of good versus evil, it is far more original and lacks the over-dramatisation of that more popular series.
It's fair to say that Cooper's work deserves its status as a classic of British literature even if it is criminally under-appreciated.
For my money it leaves Rowling's Harry Potter in the dust. The quality of writing is an order of magnitude better than those books. Even though it's a fairly standard tale of good versus evil, it is far more original and lacks the over-dramatisation of that more popular series.
It's fair to say that Cooper's work deserves its status as a classic of British literature even if it is criminally under-appreciated.