Redwall
by Brian Jacques
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Read in December, 2007
recommends it for:
Fans of animal characters, fantasy adventure, or LOTR
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I managed to finish this just in time for count it "as read" in 2007! With (how appropriate) 7 minutes to spare lol:>
I really enjoyed this book!!:D I was amazed at how vibrant the characters were and how attached to them I felt. Had I known the plot going into the book, I think I would have been very hesitant as the story centers around an attack from Cluny the Scourge (an evil rat) and his horde on the peaceful and caring Abby of Redwall mice and other woodland ...more
I managed to finish this just in time for count it "as read" in 2007! With (how appropriate) 7 minutes to spare lol:>
I really enjoyed this book!!:D I was amazed at how vibrant the characters were and how attached to them I felt. Had I known the plot going into the book, I think I would have been very hesitant as the story centers around an attack from Cluny the Scourge (an evil rat) and his horde on the peaceful and caring Abby of Redwall mice and other woodland ...more
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Read in February, 2008
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Chris W.recommends it for: 5th grade and up
I read Chris's copy. He brought it to the library and said, "Read the real thing and not that other garbage." I guess that's a step up from "read this or die." I really have readers looking out for me, eh?
It took me a good while to get through this, but I'm glad I did. I've now read a classic and I can agree with Chris that one should read the "real thing" as well as the graphic novel adaptation. What the graphic novel missed in distilling down 300-plus pages wa...more
It took me a good while to get through this, but I'm glad I did. I've now read a classic and I can agree with Chris that one should read the "real thing" as well as the graphic novel adaptation. What the graphic novel missed in distilling down 300-plus pages wa...more
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you know what was the best part of these books? and i say books as in plural because there were so fucking many of them i can't sit still long enough to check them all off. and i DID read every single one. what else was there to do in middle school?
anyway, the best part of these books was brian's description of food. it was magnificent. it didn't just make you hungry, it made you crave weird ass things that nobody would ever dream about eating in middle school. nutted cheeses and flan ...more
anyway, the best part of these books was brian's description of food. it was magnificent. it didn't just make you hungry, it made you crave weird ass things that nobody would ever dream about eating in middle school. nutted cheeses and flan ...more
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Read in September, 2007
recommends it for:
anyone looking for adventure or many novels
This book is about animals consisting of mice,foxes, rats, squirrels and other animals you would probably find in the woodlands. THe good creatures are mice, badgers, rabbits and squirrels. The bad ones are rats, foxes and weasels. There are many more on each side but these are one of the primary ones.
The books starts out with a young mice named Matthais in a abbey called Redwall. He had no family, but was cared by the people of Redwall. Suddenley, the thing that popped this peaceful l...more
The books starts out with a young mice named Matthais in a abbey called Redwall. He had no family, but was cared by the people of Redwall. Suddenley, the thing that popped this peaceful l...more
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Read in October, 2007
I'm not really into animal fantasy, but this is a good story. Still, Jacques is yet another British author who relies on images of darkness and the "exotic" to vilify a character.
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Matthias the mouse, a bumbling novice, must rise up with the aide of his friends to defend his beloved home, Redwall Abbey, when the evil rat “Cluny the Scourge!” and his horde attack. Through this adventure, Matthias learns that he is the legendary warrior mouse Martin r...more
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Matthias the mouse, a bumbling novice, must rise up with the aide of his friends to defend his beloved home, Redwall Abbey, when the evil rat “Cluny the Scourge!” and his horde attack. Through this adventure, Matthias learns that he is the legendary warrior mouse Martin r...more
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recommends it for:
people who like regular mice fighting with little swords
Ok, its regular sized animals living in a human sized world. Where are the humans? Why is there a human sized horse and wagon that the evil rats ride on? These are just some of the questions I pondered as I read through this snooze fest.
This book is quite literally a regular mouse picking up a tiny little sword, and fighting various things(snakes, rats, my will to live!). Now if the image of a little mouse holding a tiny sword doesn't want to make you retch at the absurd "oh how cut...more
This book is quite literally a regular mouse picking up a tiny little sword, and fighting various things(snakes, rats, my will to live!). Now if the image of a little mouse holding a tiny sword doesn't want to make you retch at the absurd "oh how cut...more
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Read in January, 2004
recommends it for:
kids, people who love a good old pure-hearted adventure
Redwall is a pet favorite to me, and yet I can't ignore the increasingly one-dimensional nature of the rest of the series that really sours the first installment of this very popular saga. Jaques is a master of painting literary pictures, and an entertaining storyteller as well, but I am a very harsh critic of his stereotypical characters. After about three books, you realize that you're reading the stories of the same characters over and over again. The moles are always down-to-earth, silly, wi...more
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I've probably read about 12 of the Redwall books. They are cute books for the child reader, but after reading a few, the plots get to be very same-same. The good guys are the little folk (squirrels, hedgehogs, mice, otters, etc.) of Redwall Abbey and the Badgers of Salamandastron and the bad guys are always Rats and Stoats and Minks and other animals of that ilk. Bad guys get their asses handed to them on a platter in the end.
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recommends it for:
Middle-School Kids. xD
Of course, I've read about half the Redwall books, because I was once a twelve-year-old girl too, you know.
Redwall is actually a really good series, the characters are, of course, small rodents and cats and dogs, and they're very cute little always-cheerful things, without souls or anything. What always bothered me was, however, that there were no people. There was a human-sized church with a human-sized cart and a normal-sized horse, but where were the humans? And wouldn't they have noticed t...more
Redwall is actually a really good series, the characters are, of course, small rodents and cats and dogs, and they're very cute little always-cheerful things, without souls or anything. What always bothered me was, however, that there were no people. There was a human-sized church with a human-sized cart and a normal-sized horse, but where were the humans? And wouldn't they have noticed t...more
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I can't put a date on when I first read this book, but I've read it uncountable times since. Probably around 9-10 years ago.
The copy I have is actually the second copy I've had to get -- I wore the first one out so badly, I had to get it replaced.
The day I did, actually, was the very same day we (my family and I) went to a store to meet Brian Jacques himself. I got that book and the other 8 or so books I already had signed. ^^
Which made me very happy.
What do I love so much about this b...more
The copy I have is actually the second copy I've had to get -- I wore the first one out so badly, I had to get it replaced.
The day I did, actually, was the very same day we (my family and I) went to a store to meet Brian Jacques himself. I got that book and the other 8 or so books I already had signed. ^^
Which made me very happy.
What do I love so much about this b...more
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Read in April, 1991
Who didn't read Redwall as a kid?!? We read this in 5th grade reading group and I was hooked. In some ways it's kind of like a kids version of the Da Vinci code as far the codes and secrets and riddles and clues to solving a mystery is concerned. I loved the entire series and continued to read each one as they came out all the way through high school. In fact I have several in hardcover because I wouldn't wait for paperback. It was incredible how all the storylines intersected and built on o...more
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Welcome to the captivating world of Redwall. It is summer of the Late Rose, and the mice of Mossflower Wood are gathered at the ancient stone abbey of Redwall, celebrating a year of peace and abundance. But a shadow has fallen across the abbey, for it is rumored that Cluny is coming - Cluny, the terrible one-eyed rat, whose vow is to conquer Redwall! The woodland creatures rush to a desperate defense. But what can peaceloving mice do against Cluny and his army? If only they had the sword of Mart...more
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The Redwall series is WONDERFUL. Malachi has read all of the books in the series . . . I think there are 13 or so . . . and they keep coming. We have read Mariel of Redwall as a family and Pearls of Lutra as a family (at Malachi's recommendation) We did Mossflower for a Malachi book club party. He listens to them on CD and even VOLUNTARILY reads them if we can't get them on CD. (Dixie . . . we have many of them on audible.com, so if you want to download them from our account, I think you can do ...more
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Read in July, 2004
recommends it for:
10 year olds
After I finished this book my overall impression wasn't very good. But in retrospect I think that was mostly due to the fact that it's written for a ten-year-old audience. There's nothing wrong with the book when viewed as a kid's book. The writing is competent, and the story is exciting and interesting enough to keep a ten-year-old engaged. I imagine there are a lot of adults who are fans of this book, just like there are plenty of adult Harry Potter fans (though I didn't enjoy th...more
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recommended to Caroline by:
my mom
recommends it for: everyone
recommends it for: everyone
I love this book! Brian Jacques is amazing! The characters seem so real! Their emotions and actions are described awesomely! I really love the dialog! The way that the moles speak, and the hares and what not, it's hilarious! When I need a laugh, i read Redwall. when i need excitement, i read redwall. when i'm HUNGRY, i read redwall!! He has this uncanny ability to describe the feasts these wonderful little animals have in a way that makes my mouth water! he uses probably more detail than any ot...more
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I really got into the Redwall series for awhile; however, I soon began to tire of them. The author loves to go into effusive details about feasts. Now reading about various dishes and feasts was fine the first twenty or so times, but it got really tiring after the 3rd or 4th book. You could say that I was stuffed and getting a stomach ache from all the feasting, so I stopped reading the books. Also, the phrase, "After you've read one, you've read them all," could be applied to these bo...more
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Read in January, 1997
This series absolutely dominated my middle and high school years. Ever since the librarian in middle school introduced me to Redwall, it has held a special place in my heart. The stories of mice and otters struggling for justice and peace may seem silly to those who haven't grown up with Martin the Warrior and company, but these are absolutely charming tales, cut to the cloth of Arthurian legend (I just realized that now how similar they are) that I wish everyone had the chance to experience. ...more
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Read in September, 2007
This book was popular when I was younger but the story of a mouse with a sword didn't interest me. Several years later, having read Jacques "Castaways" series I thought I'd give it a chance. Still the story of a mouse with a sword didn't interest me. I did not enjoy this book, nor can I see how it remains so popular. There was no character development and new characters were introduced righ and left (about the same speed in which they were killed off). I lost track of the actual plot s...more
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Read in January, 1994
Great fantasy/adventure type book that paved the way for Harry Potter (note the possible tribute -- both books have a character named Wormtail). No magic in this (though there are some mystical, ghostly occurrences), the story is driven by a few interweaving plot lines and some puzzle/mystery elements, and a lot of action. Characters of pretty good, but not particularly memorable -- a possible flaw of the series as a whole is that most of the characters don't appear in other books of the series ...more
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Read in August, 2007
A wonderful fantasy coming of age story about a young mouse who heeds a call to leadership when his beloved home of Redwall Abbey comes under attack from the dreaded Cluny the Scourge and his army of vermin. Matthias goes on one adventure after another to find the legendary sword of Martin the Warrior, founder of the Abbey, and to destroy the evil Cluny. Very notable characters and believably hilarious accents that distinguish them as individuals with very particular personalities. Sure to be en...more
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avg rating (all editions): 4.05 (2172 ratings) avg rating (this edition): 4.07 (1518 ratings) number of reviews: 225popular shelves
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