Ep 175 - The Dark Is Rising, by Susan Cooper

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4.6 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2016

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

News at 11! The Dark is Rising! We repeat: the Dark IS Rising!

The second (and titular) entry in Susan Cooper's award-winning The Dark Is Rising sequence turns out to have been a perfect book for Children's Book Week. It's a young adult fantasy novel about a boy named Will Stanton who embarks on an epic quest to fight against the Dark with the powers of the Light.

It leads us to ask, why do kids gravitate towards stories with black-and-white morals? And why do people keep entrusting the fate of the universe to tweens?

Of course, we also find time to talk terrible movie adaptations, time tourists, Old Old things, and the trials of having holiday-adjacent birthdays.

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0:00.0	This is a Headgun Podcast.
0:06.0	While Andrew and Craig believe the joy of discovery is crucial to enjoying any well-told
0:10.3	tale, they will not shy away from spoiling specific story beats when necessary.
0:16.5	Plus these are books you should have read by now.
0:30.0	What do you want to talk about though?
0:44.0	Seriously.
0:45.0	I don't know.
0:47.0	Do you believe in magic?
0:49.0	I don't know the rest of that song.
0:50.8	Did you ever believe in magic?
0:53.0	Interesting.
0:54.0	Did I ever believe in magic?
0:56.0	Welcome to Overdude is a podcast about the books that you've been meaning to read.
0:58.8	My name is Craig.
0:59.8	My name is Andrew.
1:00.8	And we're wondering about magic this week.
1:03.9	We're a sensibly a book podcast where one of us reads a book and tells the other person
1:07.0	about it.
1:08.0	I read The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper.
1:09.6	We're going to talk about that.
1:10.6	There's a lot of magic in that book.
1:12.2	Andrew, I don't know.
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