Post by AlaskaWolf on Jul 19, 2005 14:02:40 GMT -5
Heyo people! I'm posting this here because I really, really want others to read this book!!! (The Grey King)
It's really awesome!!!!!!!! (It's kind of hard to explain it, but I'll try my best...)
It is about an 11 year old boy named Will Stanton.
(Note that this is just one book out of5 in the amazing series, The Dark is Rising sequence, by Susan Cooper)
On his 11th birthday, a strange visitor came to tell him that he is the last, and youngest of the Old Ones. (They are an alliance of the Light, meant to keep the Dark at bay...) Shortly after discovering this, Will catches hepititus. (That's when the book starts actually...)
His doctor tells his mother that he should be sent somewhere to recover, and so he is sent to his aunt and uncle's farm in Whales. When he arrives there he begins to remember a riddle that his master (A man named Merryman, is his master and is also one of the Old Ones.)had told him. Will is very upset at forgetting it because he was told to always remember it no matter what!
So after visiting the town near the farm he goes to a church, which reminds him of a part of his riddle...
He goes out in search of "Cadfan's Way" which was in the riddle. While climbing one of the rocky hills he meets a boy named Bran Davies, and his dog Cafal, who are both a part of this mystierious riddle....
(I'm not going into any detail on the rest of the book...)
Together they go on a quest to find the harp of gold, which would supposedly awaken "the Six Sleepers"....
The rest, dear readers, I would like you to find out on your own.....
(Pleeeeaaaase read it! It's an amazing story! I had to read it for school and I thought that it'd be soooo boring! But instead it was so thrilling that I read it all in a week or so! Now I've read it four times!!! PLEEAAASE READ IT!!!!!)
Here's something to hopefully make you all a bit more curious!!! (This is the riddle from the book, by the way.)
On the day of the dead, when the year too dies,
Must the youngest open the oldest hills
Through the door of the birds, where the breeze
breaks.
There fire shall fly from the raven boy,
And the silver eyes that see the wind,
And the light shall have the harp of gold.
By the pleasant lake the sleepers lie,
On Cadfan’s Way where the kestrels call;
Through the grim from the Grey King shadows fall,
Yet singing the golden harp shall guide
To break their sleep and bid them ride.
When light from the lost land shall return,
Six Sleepers shall ride, six Signs shall burn,
And where the midsummer tree grows tall
By Pendragon’s sword the Dark shall fall.
Y meant yr mynyddoedd yn canu,
ac y mae’r arglwyddes yn dod.
It's really awesome!!!!!!!! (It's kind of hard to explain it, but I'll try my best...)
It is about an 11 year old boy named Will Stanton.
(Note that this is just one book out of5 in the amazing series, The Dark is Rising sequence, by Susan Cooper)
On his 11th birthday, a strange visitor came to tell him that he is the last, and youngest of the Old Ones. (They are an alliance of the Light, meant to keep the Dark at bay...) Shortly after discovering this, Will catches hepititus. (That's when the book starts actually...)
His doctor tells his mother that he should be sent somewhere to recover, and so he is sent to his aunt and uncle's farm in Whales. When he arrives there he begins to remember a riddle that his master (A man named Merryman, is his master and is also one of the Old Ones.)had told him. Will is very upset at forgetting it because he was told to always remember it no matter what!
So after visiting the town near the farm he goes to a church, which reminds him of a part of his riddle...
He goes out in search of "Cadfan's Way" which was in the riddle. While climbing one of the rocky hills he meets a boy named Bran Davies, and his dog Cafal, who are both a part of this mystierious riddle....
(I'm not going into any detail on the rest of the book...)
Together they go on a quest to find the harp of gold, which would supposedly awaken "the Six Sleepers"....
The rest, dear readers, I would like you to find out on your own.....
(Pleeeeaaaase read it! It's an amazing story! I had to read it for school and I thought that it'd be soooo boring! But instead it was so thrilling that I read it all in a week or so! Now I've read it four times!!! PLEEAAASE READ IT!!!!!)
Here's something to hopefully make you all a bit more curious!!! (This is the riddle from the book, by the way.)
On the day of the dead, when the year too dies,
Must the youngest open the oldest hills
Through the door of the birds, where the breeze
breaks.
There fire shall fly from the raven boy,
And the silver eyes that see the wind,
And the light shall have the harp of gold.
By the pleasant lake the sleepers lie,
On Cadfan’s Way where the kestrels call;
Through the grim from the Grey King shadows fall,
Yet singing the golden harp shall guide
To break their sleep and bid them ride.
When light from the lost land shall return,
Six Sleepers shall ride, six Signs shall burn,
And where the midsummer tree grows tall
By Pendragon’s sword the Dark shall fall.
Y meant yr mynyddoedd yn canu,
ac y mae’r arglwyddes yn dod.
;D 
