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  <title><![CDATA[The Grey King (Dark is Rising, Book 4)]]></title>
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  <default_description>&lt;I&gt;&quot;Fire on the Mountain Shall Find the Harp of Gold Played to Wake the Sleepers,&lt;P&gt;Oldest of the Old...&quot;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;P&gt;With the final battle between the Light and the Dark soon approaching, Will sets&lt;P&gt;out on a quest to call for aid. Hidden within the Welsh hills is a magical harp&lt;P&gt;that he must use to wake the Sleepers - six noble riders who have slept for &lt;P&gt;centuries.&lt;P&gt;&lt;P&gt;But an illness has robbed Will of nearly all his knowledge of the Old Ones, and&lt;P&gt;he is left only with a broken riddle to guide him in his task. As Will travels&lt;P&gt;blindly through the hills, his journey will bring him face-to-face with the &lt;P&gt;most powerful Lord of the Dark - the Grey King. The King holds the harp and &lt;P&gt;Sleepers within his lands, and there has yet to be a force strong enough to tear&lt;P&gt;them from his grasp...&lt;P&gt;&lt;P&gt;</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1975</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Susan Cooper]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sat Dec 13 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Grey King is possibly my favourite book of this sequence -- and I swear that's not only because it's set in my home country. It's a lovely, lovely book. This is the most layered of the books, I think -- by which I mean this is the book that has the most to offer for people of all ages. There are...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39966215">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="1664103">
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of the most well-written young adult books I've ever read.  They don't write 'em like this anymore, kids! There's a reason Susan Cooper won the Newberry Medal for this. Her incredible, melodic descriptive language and her ability to interweave history, mythology, legend, and good old-fas...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1664103">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Time to start in on my favorite Arthurian novels. Somehow Robin Hood and King Arthur--the best of the best when it came to British mythology and lore--have always gone together in my mind. Truth be told, I've been mildly obsessed with both ever since I was a girl and I have a soft spot in my heart f...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76917590">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="71214526">
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  <read_at>Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I picked up this book because it was on the Newberry Medal shelving in the Children's section of my local public library. I am not disappointed that I read it, and perhaps my rating does not do it justice. The story is about a young boy who has a mysterious mission to stop the advancing Dark forces,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71214526">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="6920567">
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    <body><![CDATA[I know it's not a commonly held opinion among fans of The Dark is Rising sequence, but I actually have preferred the books with the Drews, rather than just Will Stanton, but this was still a great read. I'm grateful for the little Welsh pronunciation lesson Bran gave Will, otherwise I would have bee...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6920567">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="64817036">
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[At last!  I made it through a book in The Dark is Rising series…though, to do it, I had to listen to it on audiotape.  This was the last book in the series. Somehow I felt like I was missing a lot by not reading the earlier books. I didn’t understand how Will came to know he was an Old One. What...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64817036">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="50170009">
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    <name><![CDATA[Veronica]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's a shame I didn't read this series when I was younger, but although they are &quot;children's books&quot;, I'm enjoying discovering them now. I think this is my favourite, along with the second book, The Dark is Rising; not coincidentally, both feature Will. I like them because the characters se...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50170009">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="72827360">
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    <body><![CDATA[After <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/210329.The_Dark_Is_Rising_Dark_Is_Rising_Book_2_" title="The Dark Is Rising (Dark Is Rising, Book 2) by Susan Cooper">The Dark Is Rising</a>, this is my favorite of the Dark is Rising Sequence.  This novel works because it is such an intimate and romantic story.  The Welsh setting is beautifully described and the pain of being different and approaching adulthood are captured in all their sticky reality.<br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72827360">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="67764065">
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    <body><![CDATA[This 1976 Newbery winner is the fourth book in Susan Cooper’s five book Dark is Rising Sequence, and it is my favorite.  Will Stanton is sent to Wales to recover from a severe illness.  While there, he begins to remember that he is not a mere boy, but one of the Old Ones, and that he has a quest t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67764065">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="66007023">
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    <name><![CDATA[Janis]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A dear and trusted friend recommended it, so I wanted to like this book -- a Newbery winner from 1976 -- but I really didn't enjoy it much.  I know it's one of a series and I probably lost all kinds of context by jumping ahead, but I had read the first book (and didn't really love that either) and t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66007023">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="71175437">
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    <name><![CDATA[prarobinson]]></name>
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  <read_at>Thu Sep 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I think &quot;The Dark is Rising&quot; is the best one so far, but this one's pretty compelling, too. I do struggle a little with the amount of luck (fate?) involved in the characters' experiences. That is, they often make just the right choice, or find themselves in just the right place at the righ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71175437">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Will Stanton was recovering in a Welsh village from hepatitis; he felt like he had forgotten something really, really important, but he couldn't really remember what... until he met Bran Davies, a boy drained of all colours, except for his tawny eyes.  And then Will remembered: a prophecy (that the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32244190">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="21892170">
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  <read_at>Fri May 09 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[When Will Stanton is sent to Wales to recover from a severe illness he has no idea of what adventures he is going to stumble upon.  He meets a very strange lad named Bran and his dog.  The Dark also follows Will, trying to prevent him from waking the six sleepers and fulfill his part in the fight ag...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21892170">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="16006039">
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    <name><![CDATA[Jess]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm really reluctant to say this, but this series isn't holding the same magic for me as an adult as it did as a child.  There are other things I've gone back and reread, where I respond to them just as much (but differently) as an adult, but this isn't one of them.  It holds up in a lot of ways - I...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16006039">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="62804869">
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    <body><![CDATA[For those unfamiliar with Welsh and Cornish mythology (like me), The Grey King is probably a better read than the previous books in this series. In previous books, Susan Cooper's weaving of these myths into the storyline isn't so obvious, so things happen that seem to make little sense (like some tr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62804869">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is the 4th in the Dark is Rising series.  It's the one that won the Newbery and I think that's a deserved honor.  I also think it's the best one with the most depth to it.  It's about Will on his quest for the Light and it is just really good and kept me much more engaged than the ones tha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72738144">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't know, I guess I've just got a weird criteria, but I wasn't blown away by this book, as others leaving their reviews seem to have been.  <br/>  If you're wondering what I think is a great book, well, it's this:  I forget I'm reading.  Don't even see the pages turning, because the story is so...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38065784">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Based on Gaelic mythology, this series presents the struggle of good vs evil through the supernatural adventures of a group of pretty extraordinary British schoolchildren.  The adventure is superbly told and gripping, the characters engaging.  Be warned, however, that the tone is pretty dark through...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69916787">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Though all of the books in this series are masterful, I would have to say that the powerful magic created in this one will never be matched by any other volume.  There are certainly some close ties: Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, etc... I read The Grey King at a young age which is what makes the w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46235686">more...</a>]]></body>
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