Wild Things: YA Grown-Up discussion

Redwall by Brian Jacques

Everyone I know read this when they were a kid and loved it, so I felt I needed to read it as well.

It is such a fun book!
The characters, though animals, quickly become very real to the reader and every blow at Redwall Abbey is like a blow to you.

I was looking on Wikipedia and the TWENTIETH book of the series just came out.

Anyone else read it? As a kid or adult?

Fiona wrote: "I read the whole series up to The Long Patrol I think... I didn't get past Lord Brocktree, I think I'd just lost interest in them by then.

I tried reading Martin the Warrior again a few years ago..."

I was actually thinking about getting the one with colored illustrations because I think it would help me get more students to read it. The copy I have has such small writing and no pictures that I think it would scare of some students.

I did really love the book, though, but I really don't see the connection to The Lord of the Rings... Maybe to The Hobbit, but not the trilogy...

I was in love with Redwall as a kid and read through 11 (of the first 12) before I was fatigued with the formula.

Yeah, The Long Patrol was the real stinker out of those. It's probably empirically better than The Outcast of Redwall or Marlfox, but those at least had interesting new developments.

As an adult, I've only reread Redwall and Martin the Warrior. I might get to Mossflower sometime this year?

I don't see the connection to either Narnia or Middle Earth either. (And the comparisons to those two often speak to how lazy commentators are rather than any deep similarity.)

Love this series! I have collected them all, and am slowly working my way through them. I adore the way Jacques writes, and how both good and bad characters are killed off, just like in real life. The descriptions of food are fantastic, and I get a real kick out of the different dialects he writes.