Dark Is Rising thanks and etc.

[Rosmerta]

Back after a very long (six-week? eight-week?) hiatus and hoping 
everyone is present and accounted for (haven't the strength just yet 
to read through the 9/11 messages and beyond)...

But I did want to say thank you to the many people who 
recommended "The Dark Is Rising" in a thread I posted at the 
beginning of the summer. I just finished reading it with my older son 
(afer "Once and Future King," which was as good as I remember it, but 
the language was a little tough for a 7-yr-old and me too: can anyone 
define "scombre" without having to look it up???)

Re: "Dark": I'd be interested it hearing what people think of it vis 
a vis HP. A quarter of the way through the book, I found myself truly 
thinking, well, in certain ways, this is better than HP. But now, 
having finished it (just the first book), I don't feel that way at 
all. Which is a backwards way of saying I think the author had a lot 
of great setups that she failed to exploit, unlike JKR's ability to 
both set up and exploit with really bang-up follow-through 
denounements. Long live the "oh-my-God" ending....

~Rosmerta