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Have you ever read Redwall books? It's like Watership down....only theres mice....in habits....that fight with swords......yeah...

But it's awesome. Really. Check it out. It's by Brian Jaques. 

My favorite is Tagarung, which is very cool, because Tag never (directly) kills someone till the end of the book. And he's so...otter-ly...cool! (puns puns puns) I fangirled like you would never believe over Marlfox or whatever it's called because this:

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"....wai- WHA...? Chicken Hound, only like the most stupid thing since dvd rewinders DIDN"T DIE and suddenly becomes wickedly cooler than beans, kidnapping children AND SELLING THEM AS SLAVES TO AN OLD RAT-THINGY THAT LIVES ALONE IN A HOLE???!!!!"

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".....cool beans."

Yup. Whats your favorite Redwall book? I swear, I totally frugged out when Later Rose died at the end of Martin the Warrior (Only like the King  Arthur of mice). That, and naming the squirrel kid "Chugger" in Tagarung are the only things of his books I disagree about.

And maybe when he killed Warbeak. That was traumatic too. 

I have read 2, one had to many characters to remember and I stopped reading, the other one was fine.

Read one, didn't like it that much.

Wow I haven't read them in over a decade, I loved them when I was young though and had most of them... actually I probably still have them somewhere in my many shelves and storage thingies... Now I want to read them again even though I know they couldn't match my memories of them... I think Martin the warrior was my favorite at the time.

More or less the same as Feanor, Though I did enjoy Lord Barktree's story. (I think that's his name) My favorite part with Martin was his final battle against Tsarmina. 

Time for a bump!

I wouldn't really compare them to Watership Down ('realistic' talking rabbits that actually act like animals vs. faux-medieval people who happen to be rodents) but I used to love the series as a kid.

The first three are still a fun read, though there definitely came a point later in the series where even 14 year old me realized every single book was becoming a little...or a lot...samey and formulaic. (and also incredibly freaking racist if you thought about it for more than five seconds) But whatever, the formula worked well enough to keep the series limping along, and Brian Jacques had bills to pay just like everybody else I'm sure.

I read the books at such an impressionable age that the setting definitely wormed its way into my psyche, even to this day I sometimes have this urge to write a story about a force of (educated, highly organized) foxes and rats using Roman-style tactics to utterly crush a bunch of peace-loving hippy woodland creatures whose only defense is to tsk and shake their little fists and call them 'filthy vermin' with an increasingly hypocritical sense of moral superiority...

Yeah that makes sense.

I loved redwall, triss and tagarung though. My sister and i love writing tiny stories like that, and it was at an impressionable age, but I do get the urge to read it sometimes.....

I own Redwall, Mattimeo, and Mossflower and just pretend like they're a trilogy. I have fond memories of some of the other books, but IIRC it was Outcast of Redwall that kind of started to sour me on the series...