[cood123]

Has anyone els read read wall by Brian Jaques?

If so what are you thoughts on the book

[Gonff]

Hmm..... well if you're referring to the book titled Redwall and not the whole series( I'm not that far yet), I loved it. From my username you can tell I'm a fan of the series. In my opinion though the best of the books is probably Mossflower.

[Genuine Risk]

For some reasom It couldnt hold my attention

[celephon21]

I was in love with Martin the Warrior for years. And to testify (sadly) I still have a major character in the book I"m writing named after him.

And if that isn't evidence enough, I have loved this series for years and Martin the warrior is obviously my favorite of the books.

THought they're richly and wonderfully written, they're definitely better for kids. I have trouble reading them now as I can predict most of the plots and what the characters will do. However, I think they're brilliant for introducing kids to fantasy. I still support them almost wholeheartedly, though I don't enjoy them nearly as much as I used to now.

*thus sayeth the girl with 12 rough paperback copies of this series dominating one of her bookshelves*

[nra4ever]

those books got old after #20

[lord_of_balrogs]

I liked the books at the beginning, but it got a bit old portraying the old good over evil. Why cant evil win for once? Plus I didn't like how it portrayed foxes and other meat eating animals as evil. They have to survive somehow.

[Atheling]

Triss, Mossflower, Long Patrol, and Martin the Warrior were good, maybe even Luke the Warrior, but they got boring after a while. I wasn't a fan of how Brian Jacques kept changing the time of when the books were set. I kept getting confused with who was alive, who was dead, and who was yet to be born.

[Estelwen]

I've read some of them, and I thought they were good, although I wasn't completely captivated by them. I actually prefer Brian Jaques "The Castaways of the Flying Dutchman" series, I own those three and love them.

[Threndor]

I read those books until I was twelve... which was when I started accurately predicting the endings. I still have eight or nine of the books on my shelf. They're my little sister's in all but name... she's the only one who reads them.

Well, I will flip through one every now and then... they're cute stories.

[aeidail94]

i've never read them but have intended to for ages, what rating would you give them out of ten?

[Gonff]

I'd say a 9 or 10, but that is just my opinion.

[celephon21]

THere quite good and well written, but you deffinitely can appreciate them tons more when your little and very complicated plots and characters are still a fairly distant concept

[Threndor]

THere quite good and well written, but you deffinitely can appreciate them tons more when your little and very complicated plots and characters are still a fairly distant concept

You beat me to it. Brian Jaques is an engaging author, but he is a formula writer.

Sample plot: Woodland creatures living in harmony. Then there's this nasty evil beast who is killing and enslaving aforementioned woodland creatures. One woodland creature suddenly becomes an expert warrior and goes on a quest to find a powerful object and/or kill the evil beast. The creature solves some riddles along the way, and then fights the evil beast, who reveals itself to be coward at heart as it dies, not by the hero's hand, but by some other event that occurs while fighting the hero (squashed by a bell, drowned, bitten by pet snake/scorpion). Sadly, one of the hero's friends dies during the final battle. Everyone else holds a feast.

I'm not bashing the books; I enjoyed them a few years ago. I'm just pointing out that of the 18 Redwall books I read, they all follow that same plotline, more or less. And that is not something I admire, especially at the end of book eighteen. If there's nothing new, you should stop while you're ahead.

[Gonff]

There is a new one coming out in October.

[Desperation]

I read them for two years, when I was in fifth grade to seventh. I finished all of them in that time, and gave them all tomy sister when she started getting into books. She's re-read Salamandastron multiple times already. xD

My favorites were Outcast of Redwall and Pearls of Lutra.