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Post by Mattisa Mousethief on Jul 12, 2003 23:56:46 GMT -5
Um, well, I am assuming that since everyone is here for a Redwall RPG that we all enjoy Redwall and so such literature right? Just thought I would take a stab at the obvious there for everyone and get this thread started.  |
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Post by duckflesh on Jul 13, 2003 0:31:03 GMT -5
Yes. I started in 5th grade, because my brother had read most of them and used to recite (loosely) parts of them to me for bed time stories. The most memorable one was when Captain Clogg goes nuts and is talking to corpses. I also loved that part of the actual book, poor Clogg. Anyway, my favorites, if my memory serves, were Long Patrol and Pears of Lutra. I've read them all up to Triss, which was good at first but was pissing me off at the end. The vermin were such wusses. It really made me angry how Triss suddenly knew how to use a sword, and I was getting sick of the sterotypical abbey life. "We're happy, lalala, peace, lets talk for eight pages about food like we always do..." I'm sorry, but now that he's written so many of these books... I'm starting to have trouble stomaching it. I hope the next one is a bit more tragic. (Oh, and didn't you guys hate Scarrum, or whatever that Hare's name was? What a jerk, he need to die!)
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Post by ZorakBrak64 on Jul 13, 2003 8:07:01 GMT -5
Favorite one? I don't really have one. Meh.
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Post by Adelicia on Jul 13, 2003 12:07:39 GMT -5
Unfrotuntly I haven't read Triss yet and here is the law of the book section.... before you give anything away about the book make sure you put Spoiler at the top of the page or contains spoilers and so on. If you would like to start a thread on certain books and not have to worry about spoiling it for anyone or writing spoiler everywhere, write it on the Thread title (i.e- Baily's Ballon- Spoilers or something liek that) None of you guys have done it yet so I'm not hinting at anyone or anything, I'm just prewarning ^_^.
My favorites were also Pearls of Lutra due to all all the riddles, very nice, and the Outcast of Redwall and well, just plain old Redwall. Brian Jacques books can get a bit repetitive but to me they are also addictive and though it is all basically Redwall safe, vermin attacks, Redwall prevails alot of the times, The sidestories are great. I could never get sick of Redwall ^_^
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Post by duckflesh on Jul 13, 2003 12:58:57 GMT -5
If the numbers of Redwallers who die is smaller than three, I come out unhappy. Lol, the original Redwall is one of your favorites? That's the first one, and Jaques didn't really know what he was doing yet... remember that scene with all the rats in the horse-drawn cart? That was just freakin' wierd...
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Post by Mattisa Mousethief on Jul 13, 2003 18:49:10 GMT -5
I never really thought about that but you know what? Your right, how could a bunch of rats take over a horse drawn carrage? But that's ok, it made it... interesting
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Post by duckflesh on Jul 13, 2003 20:26:03 GMT -5
Well, I read the books in order, and when you do that you notcie Redwall is kinda wierd by comparison. The birds in the roof of the Abbey are really odd, too.
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Post by kamylienne on Jul 13, 2003 22:29:10 GMT -5
Anyone have any theories on what's the role of the human being in the Redwall world? Evidence may support at least an abandoned human site (with the large carriage which I could only assume to be human-sized in the original book, as well as the barn); any thoughts on this? --Annie/Kamy
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Post by duckflesh on Jul 13, 2003 22:34:04 GMT -5
Good point about the barn... hmmm, perhaps a human will show up someday, but I sorta doubt it. Though the Tabby Cat in the first book seemed to be\ the type humans would raise...
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Post by Muramin al-Wyuli on Jul 14, 2003 0:20:45 GMT -5
There's an old DOS game out there called "Inherit the Earth: Quest for the Orb of Storms" that is an antropomorphic medieval game. The story is that humans made the animals morphs, then just vanished. In two different parts, you explore a dam and a military base. Not bad, eh?
Perhaps that's the case here? Just another continent? It's never explained what happened to humans, just that it's been several thousand years since the last one.
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Post by kamylienne on Jul 14, 2003 0:20:56 GMT -5
I hope they wouldn't show up (humans, I mean); my friends and I wonder if this is some post-apocalyptic world where humans are no longer there, or if it's some abandoned island, or if the mice are intelligent kind of like how the mice and rats are in "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH", or what. It's a neat little mystery.
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Post by duckflesh on Jul 14, 2003 0:24:41 GMT -5
Now I wonder who built Kotir... you know, the castle in Mossflower... and was the quarry near the barn dug, or is it natural?
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Post by kamylienne on Jul 14, 2003 0:32:37 GMT -5
::shrug:: Good question . . . Only B. Jacques will know, I suppose. Would anyone really ever want to find out for certain? I have to wonder, though, about all these human-esque things . . .
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Post by duckflesh on Jul 14, 2003 0:34:51 GMT -5
Heheh... so long as he deals out some serious death in his next book, I really don't care about humans.
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Post by Mattisa Mousethief on Jul 14, 2003 15:11:16 GMT -5
Well, my thoughts on the human theory is that he just wasn't sure about how to fit in thw whole real creatures (as in, not humans) into the story, because if you notice, the only evidence of humans is in the first few books when he was just finding out about the books himself, and well, if you think about it, even if the fortresses don't make all that much sense, he can't just make them not exist all of a sudden as he continues writing, you know what i mean?
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