Wed Sep 01, 2004 11:15 pm
I am a Redwall addict! I absolutly love the searies, with my favorite book of them being The Long Patrol. Marlfox is almost as good, but The Long Patrol is just the favorite of mine for some reson.
The last three books though (Taggerung, Triss, and Loamhedge) I've felt aren't as good as the books before them. Their just missing something, in my opinion. I found Loamhedge to be downright depressing, with those two brave warriors (can't remember their names
) dying for nothing. 
I love his other searies, The Castaways of the Flying Dutchman. Those book ROCK!
The last three books though (Taggerung, Triss, and Loamhedge) I've felt aren't as good as the books before them. Their just missing something, in my opinion. I found Loamhedge to be downright depressing, with those two brave warriors (can't remember their names
) dying for nothing.
I love his other searies, The Castaways of the Flying Dutchman. Those book ROCK!
Thu Sep 02, 2004 8:47 pm
laq wrote:I am a Redwall addict! I absolutly love the searies, with my favorite book of them being The Long Patrol. Marlfox is almost as good, but The Long Patrol is just the favorite of mine for some reson.
The last three books though (Taggerung, Triss, and Loamhedge) I've felt aren't as good as the books before them. Their just missing something, in my opinion. I found Loamhedge to be downright depressing, with those two brave warriors (can't remember their names
I love his other searies, The Castaways of the Flying Dutchman. Those book ROCK!
The Castaways of the Flying Dutchman are great aswell, but I think Ben's character is waaaaaay too perfect
Fri Sep 03, 2004 4:04 am
There has never been a Redwall hero quite like Rakkety Tam, theroguish Highlander squirrel who sets off for Mossflower Wood on a mercenary errand and loses his heart to the charms of Redwall Abbey. And there's never been a villain quite like Gulo the Savage: a vicious beast-eating wolverine who descends upon the Abbey in search of a relic called the Walking Stone. Readers will cheer at the return of the Long Patrol, the antics of a renegade vole thief, and the emergence of a new champion to wield the sword of Martin.
The desc for Rakkety Tam. *smiles*
Comes out on the ninth apparently.
Sat Sep 04, 2004 11:30 am
All you Redwall fans, could you tell me what Redwall is about? I have came across the books a few times, but the sypnosis about some mice/badgers/rodents/whatever fighting didn't seem very appealing. Is it really very nice?
Sun Sep 05, 2004 2:43 pm
Brian Jacques had a stroke and a heart attack? Eek, I didn't know...I haven't read any of the books unfortunately...I came really close to buying a box set but in the end didn't. Dun ask me why. I want to read all of them someday though...
Dun ask me why. I want to read all of them someday though...
Sun Sep 05, 2004 2:49 pm
Yeah. Actually ever since he had the heart attack... thats when the books seem to have gone a bit more downhill (not that they still aren't great... just... Taggerung *hacks up on Taggerung*).
His stroke wasn't major though, and he's still writing. He's a trooper!
His stroke wasn't major though, and he's still writing. He's a trooper!
Fri Sep 10, 2004 3:54 pm
I have loved the Redwall books ever since I was in sixth grade and I read Redwall during a snow day.
My favorite would have to be Pearls of Lutra, because I loved all of the puzzles they had to solve. I also really liked Salamandastron and...Taggerung . I think Salamandastron was the first to incorporate a lot of elements that have become almost essential to later Redwall books, like the dibbuns.
My favorite would have to be Pearls of Lutra, because I loved all of the puzzles they had to solve. I also really liked Salamandastron and...Taggerung . I think Salamandastron was the first to incorporate a lot of elements that have become almost essential to later Redwall books, like the dibbuns.
Fri Sep 10, 2004 4:42 pm
Qanda wrote:All you Redwall fans, could you tell me what Redwall is about? I have came across the books a few times, but the sypnosis about some mice/badgers/rodents/whatever fighting didn't seem very appealing. Is it really very nice?
Basically the mice/badgers/hares are good, and the 'vermin' are...well.. vermin! Martin the warrior is basically the key tie. He was a mouse warrior that obtained a 'magic' sword thats metal fell from the skies. He becomes a hero to the country, yaddayaddayadda... each book has a different focus.
Sun Sep 12, 2004 3:08 am
I loved Salamandastron!
Although I read it when I was about eight or nine, and the ending and the skeleton and everything suprised me alot! They really scared me, I had nightmares about it for a while back then.
Although I read it when I was about eight or nine, and the ending and the skeleton and everything suprised me alot! They really scared me, I had nightmares about it for a while back then.
Sun Sep 12, 2004 5:23 am
Qanda wrote:All you Redwall fans, could you tell me what Redwall is about? I have came across the books a few times, but the sypnosis about some mice/badgers/rodents/whatever fighting didn't seem very appealing. Is it really very nice?
Ditto here, minus the fact that I didn't know it was about fighting animals (so I suppose they can talk).
I'd like a good recommendation as they line the shelves of every bookstore I go to, but I don't want to buy something that isn't going to appeal to me. The blurbs are never really good.
As for borrowing from the library - I use my library card limit for research purposes.
Sun Sep 12, 2004 5:27 pm
Redwall is a medieval-type fantasy, only instead of people the characters are animals that speak and dress and generally behave like humans.
The plot is very simple: some good guys, some bad guys, they fight. The books tend to follow a set pattern: peaceful Redwallers feasting and doing good deeds are upset by evil vermin hordes out to sack and pillage, youngish hero(s) show up, at some point somebody has to set out on a long quest, somebody else has to solve a rhyming riddle/prophecy, and the ghost of Martin the Warrior pops in here and there. The characters are quite generic, especially the villians.
Redwall is pretty entertaining. Just don't expect to be wowed by depth and complexity in the writing, because there really isn't any.
I don't like Redwall as much as I used to, but I still recommend it for a fun, light read. My favorites are Salamadastron and Mattimeo.
The plot is very simple: some good guys, some bad guys, they fight. The books tend to follow a set pattern: peaceful Redwallers feasting and doing good deeds are upset by evil vermin hordes out to sack and pillage, youngish hero(s) show up, at some point somebody has to set out on a long quest, somebody else has to solve a rhyming riddle/prophecy, and the ghost of Martin the Warrior pops in here and there. The characters are quite generic, especially the villians.
Redwall is pretty entertaining. Just don't expect to be wowed by depth and complexity in the writing, because there really isn't any.
I don't like Redwall as much as I used to, but I still recommend it for a fun, light read. My favorites are Salamadastron and Mattimeo.
Sun Sep 12, 2004 6:33 pm
I liked outcast of redwall. With sunflash and sixclaws. that one was really cool
Tue Oct 05, 2004 8:54 am
readwall is always going to be the outstanding best in my eyes, i just loved it, and still do.
i've kinda grown away from the series, i read up to pearls of lutra, and thats really about it, but in year 5 i was the absolute fanatic in the class.
outcast of redwall was interesting, i was getting a bit sick of its the rats/ferrets/stouts who are always bad thing. i was also happy for the searat *i forget which book* who repented and ended up living a nice life by the sea
my favorite characters would have to be the squirrels and the hares
i've kinda grown away from the series, i read up to pearls of lutra, and thats really about it, but in year 5 i was the absolute fanatic in the class.
outcast of redwall was interesting, i was getting a bit sick of its the rats/ferrets/stouts who are always bad thing. i was also happy for the searat *i forget which book* who repented and ended up living a nice life by the sea
my favorite characters would have to be the squirrels and the hares