Redwall by Brian Jacques

by ballerina13

Published December 31, 2009

Recently in my Language Arts class, I read a book called Redwall. It is about a young mouse who has to defend the abbey where he lives against a clan of rats led by a rat called Cluny the Scourage. It is very good. I normally do not read fantasy but I enjoyed this one. It was sweet and well written. Has anyone read it?

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lele253isme
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lele253isme commented Comment · Mar 8, 2011

I used to read Red Wall. I loved the descriptions of the battle and the feasts. I love it. I think that I am going to take it up again.

IgnisandGlacialis wrote a review Review · Nov 1, 2010

OH MY GOSH!!! I LOVE THAT BOOK!!!
I was under the impression that I was one of the only people in the world who knew about it. It has been making me depressed :( but no longer!
Actually, the book 'Redwall' is not the best one. My opinion, of course. I probably like Lord Brocktree the best (I have read every single one of them) but I also very much like Loamhedge, Taggerung, The Legend of Luke, Mattimeo, Marlfox, Rakkety Tam ... the list goes on.
The only things I find annoying about the series are: the repetitiveness (often different books have quite a similar plot to others) and the sense that revenge is right. Which it's not. Just saying :)
But I do love this series. It has a special place in my heart and on my bookshelf. Forever friends.

MinisterOfHighHopes wrote a review Review · Mar 11, 2010

The Redwall books are arguably the best fantasy books around. I'm not much of a fan of fantasy either, but the Redwall books are great. I think that personifying animals is genius. My favorite book of the series, besides 'Redwall" is "Outcast of Redwall" it is about a ferret raised in Redwall and turns evil and a beast of a badger who fights him. This one was quite good. Redwall books=A

-Minister

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Ranger Hawk commented Comment · Feb 25, 2010

Ah, I only read a few of those books, but I loved them! Great works.

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Zeek_Weasel wrote a review Review · Feb 25, 2010

Oh, I've read a few of the Redwall books. My favorite is a tie between Lord Brocktree and Tagerung. I normally hate fantasy in this sense, the medial sense. Yet for some reason, I just love the use of animals for main characters, and how he describes the food makes me wanna learn to cook that well. Hehe, I'm a bit of a hare myself, pardon the racism from the book.

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fire_of_dawn commented Comment · Feb 13, 2010

I love the Redwall books, I must say. Yes, there are stereotypes
(such as genteel or gluttonous hares), but take a look at
Martha in "Loamhedge."

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bookgeek wrote a review Review · Jan 27, 2010

Redwall is nice. Jacques, as a survivor of WWII, has painted war vivdly that the protagonist almost become surreal (although in reality they are since the characters are non-human LOL). i think all points taken, it is wholesome and a book for quite all ages. I am happy that you came to read it.

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MKate commented Comment · Jan 5, 2010

I love the Redwall books, my brother and I have read them to ragged shreds! :D

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Critiq wrote a review Review · Jan 4, 2010

I read a lot of those books when I was younger. It seems a little weird for you to be reading them in class, though. I guess they are sort of modern legends with animals and very boring descriptions of food? I did enjoy them, but I'd probably file them under the title of 'Typical Unfufilling Fantasy Lit.'

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Jiggity commented Comment · Jan 3, 2010

Aww, Redwall...haha, I haven't read that in some time. I remember it enjoying it very much though :)

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Karsten wrote a review Review · Dec 31, 2009

I wish I could read Redwall books for my classes. :P I still have a huge nostalgic love for the Redwall series. It's repetitive at times, and the bizarre racist undertones are a little disturbing (although this is something unfortunately common to fantasy as a whole), but they're good wholesome fun.



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