on the dark is rising
7 Mar 2005 07:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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kestrelsan's dir fic summer's men, and bunnies having to do with the arthur legend and the magic of cooper's universe keep trying to push their way through some kind of vague covering. i can feel my ordinary trains of thought about the story (which is so far good, and comes recommended by two people) bumping up under their pressure, like that latex womb the uruk-hai bursts out of in lotr.
it seems to happen so often that writers, particularly children's writers, will create these universes based on our reality with their own intrinsic magics that could be quite fascinating, and then ... turn out to be not nearly so exciting in the execution as in the thought. i'd like to see cooper's Dark and Light explored--the nature of her multiple varieties of immortality, the power of arthur and what exactly he is. but what i really, really don't want to do is read the rest of her canon, because sometimes the bad was actually painful.
so it will probably never happen.
kestrelsan's dir fic summer's men, and bunnies having to do with the arthur legend and the magic of cooper's universe keep trying to push their way through some kind of vague covering. i can feel my ordinary trains of thought about the story (which is so far good, and comes recommended by two people) bumping up under their pressure, like that latex womb the uruk-hai bursts out of in lotr. it seems to happen so often that writers, particularly children's writers, will create these universes based on our reality with their own intrinsic magics that could be quite fascinating, and then ... turn out to be not nearly so exciting in the execution as in the thought. i'd like to see cooper's Dark and Light explored--the nature of her multiple varieties of immortality, the power of arthur and what exactly he is. but what i really, really don't want to do is read the rest of her canon, because sometimes the bad was actually painful.
so it will probably never happen.
