redwall author brian jacques RIP

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-12380763

i met him once. not many authors have meant as much to me as this guy did when i was in 2nd or 3rd grade.

otm

man i fuckin loved the shit out of these books

May Martin the Warrior and all the badger lords go with him.

Got Redwall for Christmas one year (I was 10 or so?), read it through twice without a break. Don't think I did that with any other book. The sequels were all inferior iirc.

RIP

my fav fbook status update that i saw today was

RIP BRIAN JACQUES THANKS FOR TEACHING ME ABOUT ENGLISHNESS THROUGH RODENTS AND SHIT. RAISING AN ELDERFLOWER CORDIAL PRESSED BY A DORMOUSE MONK IN YOUR HONOUR BOO ♥

i also read and enjoyed the books, what sticks in the mind most is how hungry the (many, many) feast scenes always made me feel

also i think it was yet another of those cases where i secretly rooted for the baddies all along because they were more glamorous

man I can't believe how many of these books I read now that I think about it

well past my time, but i can imagine

rip

iirc this was my fave as a kid, picaresque lone wanderer i think only arrives at redwall in the second half

http://www.sullivanet.com/redwall/encyc/covers/ll-cover-uk.gif

also one w/ a badger on the cover. tempted to re-read some of these

RIP!

RIP. loved these as a kid, deciphering molespeak was a memorable achievement. i never could decide whether the size differences between species was just not discussed, or whether redwall took place in a universe where they were all roughly the same size. i guess that cover would suggest the latter.

RIP, read like 15 of these and that's still only like half

The Outcast Of Redwall was the best one (?) along with the one where they flood a castle (Martin The Warrior?) agh so long ago

After hearing the news I added my copies of Redwall and Mattimeo to the current reading stack. They're the Ace Fantasy mass market editions, too bad those printings are going and soon will be extinct. I don't care for the new US editions.

Wow - I knew he was a children's writer but had no idea he had such success. I grew up listening to his local radio show. A dose of folksy Scouseness every Sunday afternoon.

it's kinda cool to see how random the selection of people who used to read his books is - no one ever used to talk about him, ever, i'd kind of forgotten that i was obsessed with them for a while. most of the kids' authors i see people talk about are those i've never heard of.

can't recall now if i just read redwall or the two after it as well but i vividly remember being SO GRIPPED by the thing i'd be snatching a page or two whenever i possibly could, like nothing before or most probably since. shit was definitely life-or-death real. rip.

Lex OTM - in a very recent conversation about fantasy novels, I mentioned Brian Jacques and tbh thought I'd be laughed out of town for mentioning them, as outside of the school library I don't think I've ever discussed anything to do with Redwall, but I was obsessed with them too. Not read them all, in fact didn't know they even kept going past 3 or 4. They never got hit with the 'kid lit that's actually good' (perhaps cos they did keep going? perhaps cz ppl scared of being called furries)?

I totally wrote a short story in English which really aped the Redwall mannerisms and got laughed at for it. Perhaps THAT is why I never talked about them subsequently. Kids be cruel!

perhaps cz ppl scared of being called furries

haha i am so glad i got to read and enjoy them before i knew about furries

god there were a fuck of a lot of these. which I guess made the universe feel even more epic and expansive — just when you think you're all caught up, suddenly there's a new one with VOLES ON A BOAT or SNAKES IN A CASTLE or OTTERS IN HOT-AIR BALLOONS or w/e

could never read as many as I wanted. then I grew up, got a job and had money to buy all the redwall books I wanted, and suddenly I wasn't interested anymore. them's the breaks, I guess.

I read the first one and was perhaps a few years too old for it, but my younger brother went through a yearlong phase of reading nothing nothing but Redwall books.

I never read him but my wife did & so our kids have read bunches of these, & loved them. RIP.

still one more book coming out. FROM THE GRAVE!

The Rogue Crew is the upcoming twenty-second book of the Redwall series by Brian Jacques, which will be released on May 3, 2011. It will be the final novel of the Redwall series, due to Jacques' unexpected death on February 5, 2011.[2]

This summary was posted on Redwall.org, the official site of Brian Jacques and the Redwall series:[3]

From Salamandastron's Western Shores, to the High North Coast, here they come. Captain Rake Nightfur, and his Long Patrol Hares, with Skor Axehound and the Rogue Crew Sea Otters. Marching boldly into a thrilling saga, singing, feasting, swashbuckling, and battling. Questing for the infamous ship Greenshroud, crewed by Searats and Corsairs, Captained by the murderous Razzid Wearat, terror of both sea and land. His aim, the conquest of an Abbey! Was there ever such a blood and thunder chase? The fate of Abbot Thibb and his Redwallers hangs in the balance. Who will be first to the gates, who can save the legendary Abbey from the clutches of a Wearat? On, on, to victory or death!

still one more book coming out. FROM THE GRAVE!

The Rogue Crew is the upcoming twenty-second book of the Redwall series by Brian Jacques, which will be released on May 3, 2011. It will be the final novel of the Redwall series, due to Jacques' unexpected death on February 5, 2011.[2]

This summary was posted on Redwall.org, the official site of Brian Jacques and the Redwall series:[3]

From Salamandastron's Western Shores, to the High North Coast, here they come. Captain Rake Nightfur, and his Long Patrol Hares, with Skor Axehound and the Rogue Crew Sea Otters. Marching boldly into a thrilling saga, singing, feasting, swashbuckling, and battling. Questing for the infamous ship Greenshroud, crewed by Searats and Corsairs, Captained by the murderous Razzid Wearat, terror of both sea and land. His aim, the conquest of an Abbey! Was there ever such a blood and thunder chase? The fate of Abbot Thibb and his Redwallers hangs in the balance. Who will be first to the gates, who can save the legendary Abbey from the clutches of a Wearat? On, on, to victory or death!

still one more book coming out. FROM THE GRAVE!

The Rogue Crew is the upcoming twenty-second book of the Redwall series by Brian Jacques, which will be released on May 3, 2011. It will be the final novel of the Redwall series, due to Jacques' unexpected death on February 5, 2011.[2]

This summary was posted on Redwall.org, the official site of Brian Jacques and the Redwall series:[3]

From Salamandastron's Western Shores, to the High North Coast, here they come. Captain Rake Nightfur, and his Long Patrol Hares, with Skor Axehound and the Rogue Crew Sea Otters. Marching boldly into a thrilling saga, singing, feasting, swashbuckling, and battling. Questing for the infamous ship Greenshroud, crewed by Searats and Corsairs, Captained by the murderous Razzid Wearat, terror of both sea and land. His aim, the conquest of an Abbey! Was there ever such a blood and thunder chase? The fate of Abbot Thibb and his Redwallers hangs in the balance. Who will be first to the gates, who can save the legendary Abbey from the clutches of a Wearat? On, on, to victory or death!

still one more book coming out. FROM THE GRAVE!

The Rogue Crew is the upcoming twenty-second book of the Redwall series by Brian Jacques, which will be released on May 3, 2011. It will be the final novel of the Redwall series, due to Jacques' unexpected death on February 5, 2011.[2]

This summary was posted on Redwall.org, the official site of Brian Jacques and the Redwall series:[3]

From Salamandastron's Western Shores, to the High North Coast, here they come. Captain Rake Nightfur, and his Long Patrol Hares, with Skor Axehound and the Rogue Crew Sea Otters. Marching boldly into a thrilling saga, singing, feasting, swashbuckling, and battling. Questing for the infamous ship Greenshroud, crewed by Searats and Corsairs, Captained by the murderous Razzid Wearat, terror of both sea and land. His aim, the conquest of an Abbey! Was there ever such a blood and thunder chase? The fate of Abbot Thibb and his Redwallers hangs in the balance. Who will be first to the gates, who can save the legendary Abbey from the clutches of a Wearat? On, on, to victory or death!

On, on, to victory or death!

welp,

um, i don't know what happened there! sorry, folks. ilx got weird on me.