Day: December 30, 2011

Diane Duane – Deep Wizardry

Diane Duane – Deep Wizardry

Inspired by our talk of The Chronicles of Prydain, I want to remind those of you who haven’t yet had the pleasure, that if you’ve not read Diane Duane’s Young Wizards series (starting with So You Want to Be a Wizard) or stopped before you got to the second book — Deep Wizardry &mdashp; you’re missing some of the best YA fantasy around (at least as good as Harry Potter).

The Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander

The Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander

When I was at Mysterious Galaxy (December 4, 2011), I mentioned how much I’d liked this YA (really, middle grade) series:

  • The Book of Three
  • The Black Cauldron
  • The Castle of Llyr
  • Taran Wanderer
  • The High King

Amber Benson who was with me and the others in the audience all recalled the movie, The Black Cauldron, but hadn’t known about the other books.

(For the record, if I ever get to be a gazillionaire, I’d buy back the film rights and make the books into a proper set of movies — and then I’d become a multi-gazillionaire.)