/lit/ - Literature

Based thread. I've got this. Had it since 2012 when I was 18.

>>23268973
>Did you read them as a kid?
No. I don't come from an Anglophone country and these weren't popular.
>Are you going to reread them now?
I'm interested but I'm also very busy with my reading list. The world seems interesting so maybe I will get into the series in some fears.
>Does anyone have a full hardback collection?
atm not really

>>23268973
What do Redwall fans think about the game Tails of Iron? Does it remind you of Redwall in any way?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMJF8hH8RGE&ab_channel=PlayStation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2DBT1wmzNA&ab_channel=PlayStation

>>23268973
>It's le racist, somehow!

>>23268977
This is great, might have to borrow this idea at some point anon

>>23269025
Don't.

>>23268973
>Does anyone have a full hardback collection?
are you joking my nigga lmao? isnt the full series like 30 fucking books? they cant ALL be essential, at least compared to the main trilogy

>B-but why does the wild animal act violent like its nature? That's waycism!

>>23269035
>NATURE ISNT LIKE THAT
Mr Jacques was based af

>>23269031
What makes you think those are the 3 "main" books anon

>>23269031
>isnt the full series like 30 fucking books
22 books according to wiki

>>23269043
those are the ones PBS chose to adapt into cartoons during the early 00s

>>23269040
>He was literally bald like a skkkinhead! :0

squirrelbros... we never got our tribes booklet :(

Publication order or chronological order?

>>23269067
ALWAYS publication order

>>23268973
>Did you read them as a kid?
Yes, but only those i had - Redwall, one about Mattimeo and Salamandastron. It was before i had electronic devices mobile and comfortable enough to pirate books and read them on this devices. I, nevertheless, have and had back then lots and lots of books (even various fiction only would be measured in several hundreds) and had read most of them back in the childhood. Now i catch up with the other entries in many series i didn't even knew had existed (or didn't exist back then). Almost all of them being translations because i do not belong to countries with major european languages like english, german, french, italian etc.
>Are you going to reread them now?
I am reading most of them for the first time right now (is currently on a book about Triss), i read them in events chronology order, not release one. Difference between Redwall and other books, especially in world-building, is quite astonishing - Cluni being supposedly Brazilian rat, when in next books there is (so far for me) zero other real world references, animal characters being size-proportioned not only toward each other species, but also toward, supposedly, human architecture (that church) and other little details. Still like them though. In this case most of them are digitally pirated, of course.
And a bit off-topic - does anyone here, by chance, have "Normanghast" of year 2023 by Robert Rankin available in digital?

Here's my meager collection, all acquired since the last Redwall thread a few days ago. Still need to pick up some of the first five but those ones are a bit rarer, especially in hardback and I refuse to buy the neoliberal current edition covers

>>23268973
I read a lot of them back when I was a young teen: Marlfox, The Pearls of Lutra, Mattimeo, Salamandastron, I think I read about 14 of them or so, but I haven't touched them in many years. I don't know whether I'll read them again.

>>23269035
>>23269040
Don't start tainting such a pure series with /pol/isms. Aren't you tired of making everything so gross and dirty all the time?

>>23269323
You will receive a world full of tyrants, hatredy of beauty and unquestioned violence if you wouldn't. You will receive a world full of uglyness, hatredy of beauty and violence for the sake of every possible reason if you would. You would receive exactly the same thing if you would hide all beauty for yourself. Such is a human nature. Until humans stay humans, there will be bad things everywhere. And becoming something other than yourself is a fate worse than death.

>>23269337
Holy fuck dude, get out of here with that pretentious horseshit. Good grief.

>>23269323
>t. water vole

>>23269343
It's truly amazing you /pol/ half wits manage to literally make everything about your shallow race-politics. Truly. Literature is too high for you—even children's literature, apparently.

Are they good if I like stories about little people

>>23268973
>good
>skaven
/0

>>23269323
how is that /pol/? I'm mocking a redditor

>>23269870
>how is that /pol/
it's not but TDS (Trump Derangement Dyndrome i.e. psychosis where liberals, leftists, criminals, homosexuals, and minorities see /pol/ everywhere and think people are out to KILL them) is ramping up

Sipping an Old Speckled Hen and about to go read some Redwall. Comfy times lads.

>>23270801
cheers

>>23269031
>they cant ALL be essential
WRONG

>>23268987
Pretty good game, I wish it got more attention

>>23270801
shouldnt you be drinking strawberry cordial, or whatever tf that one drink was that jacques always included in his interminable feast descriptions?

>>23272474
Old Speckled Hen and other English Bitters are about as rural British as it gets although I'd definitely go for a jug of strawberry cordial right about now lad

All i remember was the food descriptions and how they made me hungry.

>>23269323
>Don't start tainting such a pure series with /pol/isms. Aren't you tired of making everything so gross and dirty all the time?
Since when did 4chan get so pussy whipped, holy shit

>>23269072
I agree with this but why is that? What makes publication order the canonical way to enjoy an author's book?

>>23268973
I swear we live in a simulation. I've been coming to /lit/ for years now and have never seen a Redwall thread. Was thinking of buying the first book a few days ago and suddenly this thread pops up.

>>23273998
It's more organic in the sense that you get to experience the world as the author was creating it, so you get to see what he expanded and grew, kind of like a flower.

>>23274006
OP here, I only started this thread as there was a Redwall thread a few days ago which caused me to remember how much I loved the series and to start buying up used copies online.

>>23273984
Yeah I've been here since 2021, that newfag's post was way out of line.

>>23269352
Yeah the protags are usually midgets.

>>23268973
The audiobooks are done by Jaques and his voices for all his characters are so charming. Blessed series.

>>23268973
My mom read me Redwall and Mossflower at bedtime. I read Mattimeo myself. That was one of the first "real" books I read. Feels really good being a privileged white person.

>>23275430
Need to listen to those. I'd love to hear how he does the moles.

Underrated thread.

>>23268977
you are 30 YEARS OLD and are still posting on 4CHAN?????

>>23275544
i autistically listened to those shitters dozens of times when i was a kid & i remember that he performed them something like this
https://voca.ro/1hrfvGdABdeL

>>23276263
Inherently YES

>>23276263
It's called being an oldfag, now get out.

I'm a grown man. Should I read the first book

>>23268973
I read about a half dozen or so of them as a kid, but hardly remember anything other than a few standout moments. I just remember a scene where somebody got blasted with a slingshot right between the eyes and just died.
>redwall
>marlfox
>taggerung
>the long patrol
>can't remember any more titles, but know for a fact I read more

>>23277858
Yes you should

>>23277899
I read the first 9. The tenth book was the Long Patrol and by that time I felt like I had grown out of them. My favourite was always #1 though. It was from before Jacques had the world figured out and is inconsistent with the worldbuilding in the subsequent books, and it has an air of mystery and deep time that the rest of the series doesn't quite have. The Mariel cycle is probably my favourite sub series tho. The one where they go down south as far as they can I remember being really good.