/lit/ - Literature

It's a shame he died; I really enjoyed reading those when I was a kid, too.

holy shit he died yesterday. damn how old was he?

source?

>>1530591
I checked Redwall books out from the library every other week when I was in school

>>1530593
71

>>1530596
>what is wikipedia

SON OF A MOTHERFUCKER

This has seriously put a damper on my fucking night. Even if the later books were essentially retreads, the Martin Trilogy of books are my favorite books of all time.

I am broken.

>>1530600

What is the news?

>implying a fabled children's author of over 20 years can die and not be in any sort of news report of any kind.

>>1530600
I can't find any word of his death outside of Wikipedia. I hope that it's just a horrible prank.

BBC has nothing. He hosted a radio show until about 2006. They would have said something anyway, but definitely considering he had one with them.

You wound me, OP. You are a bad person.

i feel bad for never actually reading one of the books, i started a couple of them, but never finished

>>1530605
The article is unlocked. OP could have edited it for the purpose of trolling.

>>1530619

Mossflower
Martin the Warrior
Legend of Luke

If you feel inclined, give those a try, in that order. The Mariel books are also a good read. Personally Redwall itself has aged pretty badly to me, but its sequel Mattimeo is still good.

I swear to god OP if this is a joke I will rape a whole through your heart.

Please be trolling OP. These books defined my childhood.

I'm going to need some alcohol.

For the first time in my life I hope I got trolled hard.

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

>>1530877

fuck.

fuckfuckfuckfuckfuck

>>1530918

NO

NO

NO

WHY COULDNT THIS BE A TROLL

FUCK

RIP, Mr. Jacques.
Thanks for the fine books.

So is it 100% certain OP isn't trolling now?

Saddest moment of my life since the ending of Salamandastron =[

Not fucking cool...

>>1530959
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-12380763

Mods why haven't you stickied this? He was important to a lot of people growing up.

I feel terrible. I can't even finish my hearty dinner of steaming pumpkin and herb stew, accompanied by thick slabs of honey-glazed bread and melting cheese.

>>1531389
Oh god stop it. The food descriptions were the best part.

dear lord, saw it on /tg/ and here, then went to check and see if it was true, here's hoping he's enjoying his time the great long patrol, wot.

>>1531389
Nice try anon, but it's like trying to eat something that looks like trout, and tastes like trout, but is all but carp, not even a carp almondine which had been baked in a honey glaze that shined when the candles hit it, and melted like butter and stuck to your whiskers.

sorry just have something in my eye.

>>1531390

Jacques is to food as Tolkien is to songs.

I'm sad now, /lit/

fa/tg/uy here.
There is a similar thread over there.
We all has a sad over this news.
Godspeed /lit/.

I just plucked Redwall and Mattimeo out of my bookshelf. I rarely read books more than once but I haven't read these two since I was in 10th grade.

So what was everyone's favorite Redwall book? Mine was Mariel of Redwall.

>>1531482
Salamandastron, outcast of redwall.

>>1531482
I know people will hate me, but Lord Brocktree.

Mossflower, Salamanderstron, MarlFox and the Bellmaker where my favs.


My heart truly hurts, such a good man..

>>1531482
THe Long Patrol was always a favorite of mine, but it's very difficult to actually pick one.

oh man. I'm one of the people who read those books and DIDN'T turn into a furry. Sure, they got kinda same-y and i stopped reading them when I got older and grew out of it, but redwall, Calvin and Hobbes, and Dinotopia were the three pillars of my childhood. feelsbadman.

mfw

>>1531506
Bellmaker was fantastic. I almost forgot about it.

Salamandastron, certainly. I also really liked Lord Brocktree and Taggerung. Shit, I have to go back and buy all of his books, especially the later ones that I never looked at after I stopped following. It always brought the greatest joy to my heart to see a new Redwall book in the BN or Borders.

Man all the books had something about em - Genuinely one of the best childrens authors ever.

oh man, lord brocktree and the long patrol were my two fav childhood books

Buying up all these books has sort of been on the back of my mind for several years.


Gonna try to actually get around to it now.

Lord Brocktree, so good.
;_;

I never read the Drenai books until directly after David Gemmell passed away. I guess I should read the Redwall books now.

Anyone know if they are similar?

>>1531565

Read Mossflower first

My favorites were probably Mossflower, Mariel of Redwall, and whichever one had Sunflash the Mace

Eulalia!

Just found out....


Saaaddd...... :((((((

Going to reread one of his books I have on my shelf. Suggestions?

>>1531665

Outcast of Redwall had sunflash the mace. My personal favorite.

This made my already bad day a whole lot worse. Man, I can't even believe that yesterday while at Books-A-Million, I passed by the kids' section and wondered what the next Redwall book would be after The Sable Quean.

Well, that settles it. When I'm done with my schoolwork for this week, I'm sitting down and finishing Doomwyte, and then The Sable Quean. I've got all the books, but those ones I haven't read.

I haven't read these books in years but the one scene that stays with me is when rose died in martin the warrior.

I don't normally post here, but I just heard about it. I loved these books. I won't choose a favorite. But I am very sad to hear this, and hope we all will get in a few good reads in the coming weeks and months.

I read his books when growing up, and they really did compose the majority of my childhood. Hell, back when the TV cartoon series was still running, I'd get up extra early just to watch an episode. Brian Jacques was a great man and may he rest in peace.

As for a favorite, I love them fucking all.

brb, crying self to sleep

The redwall books were a huge part of my childhood. I remember thinking wistfully about dandelion wine and delicious meals while I froze my ass off on the way to elementary school. ;_;

>>1530575
i had a massive A1 wall map of the entire redwall world. i gave it to this girl i liked back in grd 7, fucking biggest regret of my life.

Fuck.

Oh, damn.
I loved his books and his world so much.
So long, Brian. May you eat all the delicious food you can describe in an afterlife of your choosing.

J..just think guys, he'll be guarding all the Redwallers along with Martin.

..I have something in my eye

At the funeral a long forgotten poem/riddle is found and read giving clues to a solution of the current crisis.

Then a grand feast was had of glazed ham, and buttered scones, and plump turkey and etc.

Enjoyed the books when I was kid, fuck the people who cry about racism in them. Damn crybabies.

>>1531847
people said there was racism in redwall?

>>1531853
I can see why people might think that, as there are very obviously different races/cultures in the series, but to think that it's actually racist is reactionary and pigheaded. All of the races had some sort of advantage or skill that made it impossible for one particular race to ever be better than another.

I think that's why I liked them so much. It's easy to say that otters were your favorite but then you'd jump to Hares or Badgers or Moles or whatever. They were all so lovable and unique.

>>1531841
>implying he's not starting out with the Hares on a Long patrol, wot.

;__;

Sad times.

Seems a few of you like salamandastrom and Outcast? They were my least favourite of the original lot. Lord Brocktree, the Martin/Luke books were good, but THE PEARLS OF MOTHER FUCKIN LUTRA - dem lizards

WHAAAT? HE DIIIEEED???

BUT I ONLY READ LIKE TWO OF THEM

NUHHHHHHHHHHHHH

>>1531853

Because he used a simple scheme of "weasels = bad" and "mouse = good" like system. Rather then realizing because this is books for kids, who don't need complex moral ambiguity and complicated logic they bitch about how it teaches kids its ok to be racist.

>>1531866
well said chap, well said

I want to read Mossflower again... It's been too long... Still need to read the Sable Quean... Sigh...

brb, I have something in my eye...

>>1531874
Exactly, it's the usual hey lets look for something truely "deep" in a series of kids books like how Harry Potter is an allegory for Jesus and not for the power of friendship.

tl;dr ITT: Idiots mad that an English major is worth jack shit.

>>1531864
The reason people think it's racist is because of the way vermin are literally always evil no matter what and there's no possibility for redemption. If you're a vermin, you're bad, all there is to it. If you're not vermin, you're a Traditional English Countryman and good. Also the good races tend to fall into stereotypes based on English rural characters and the combination of that with the vermin thing leads to some pretty questionable implications where the books can be read as about the struggle of good english country people (with a certain amount of condescension towards lower classes) combating evil foreign types.

>>1531893
I feel like there were a very small number of exceptions. I think I remember a stoat actually becoming a good guy and a member of Redwall Abbey, but yeah, the whole "He's a stoat so there's no way he can be good" thing came up a lot.

I guess Taggerung was like that too, but reverse (i.e- He's an otter and no matter what kind of vermin he runs around with, he'll always be a good guy etc.)

Now that you mention it, though, those books were overwhelmingly English, which should probably be obvious, but it's definitely not something I paid that much attention to when I was younger.

I didn't even know I read any of his books, until I googled him. I still remember being sad because only a few of his books were translated in my language. ;_;

A friend of mine just told me what happened, Redwall was my favorite series as a kid. I'd ALWAYS have one of the books with me at school. Out of all of them I loved Pearls of Lutra, Marlfox and Lord Brocktree the most.

Someone should ask /ck/ for scans from the cookbook, they should have them...

What was the book where a vermin was raised to be a member of the Abbey and kept doing evil shit until the end when he threw himself in front of an arrow for somebody else, and the one person who was convinced he was really good at heart for the whole book suddenly went "lol I was wrong he was really just another evil vermin" after his act of selflessness? That always pissed me off.

>>1532160
Outcast of Redwall

pretty much the capstone of the "redwall is racist' argument

>>1532100

/co/mrade here. Strangely enough we have them in our thread.

>>>/co/23270167

>>1532160
>>1532166
I have always disliked that book. Out of the entire series before I stopped reading (which would be around Loamhedge when the books kinda started to lose their touch) it was the only one to just piss off my 12-year-old self.

>>1532160
I think it is Mattimeo, because I remember the badger mum in Redwall was in it as well. Her death made me all kinds of sad back when I read that book.

>>1532178
Thanks. Using either this or the online recipes (which I can't believe are still up, I used to read them when I was in my sixth grade typing class for chrissake) I'll have a glass of Strawberry Fizz in his honor.

>>1532183
luckily the next books were otters and hares, wot.

>>1531482
Martin the Warrior. It was the ultimate story of love, death, betrayal and revenge.

>>1532701
And clogs.

>>1532719
I wanted him to live.

The only vermin that ended up living were those idiots who stumbled into redwall and let the big bad of the book in, if I remember right. And that one who killed his piratemate because he slew the Friar or something.

Shit was dark. Godspeed.

Looks like a boring read.

>>1532777
Oh, the clog guy lived. There's a monologue from him burying all the corpses from the final battle after he goes crazy.

>>1532777
Does anybody remember any vermin-type creatures who ever turned good/showed signs of a more noble nature and lived to tell about it? I know in the Pearls of Lutra there was a female searat or something who showed kindness to characters who got captured and gave her life to save one of them. Can't think of any others at all, and it's kinda saddening.

>>1531482

My favorite's probably Mossflower. Maybe Martin the Warrior. Tough call.

>>1532782
These books were anything but boring.

Hey Lit, We are having a Similar Thread over in TG

>>>/tg/13816299

I come to you to share something with you. We are listening to the Unabridged Audiobook of "The Long Patrol" from my Personal CD Collection. The link to the stream is in the TG Thread, we are about halfway through the book now. Come on over and join us.

Its Narrated by Brian Jacques himself.

>>1532790
I can't remember wht book, but two stoats lived at the Abbey for a while. One was evil, did something, and I think the other stoat killed him. But the second stoat then left the abbey after a tearful farewell.
I remember they built a boat for the dibbuns out of half a barrel or something.

>>1532841
Oh, /tg/. <3

>>1532841
Could you possibly post a download link for the book?

oh, this is sad. I loved those books when I was younger, still appreciate them even if their themes don't really derivate.

Marlfox was the best. They were great villains.

>>1532847
ffffff I really don't remember that, probably haven't read that one. Can you recall anything else that happened in the book so I can try to find a copy?

>>1532853

You can get them off of Demonoid I believe, we are listening to my 100% Legit CD versions. Im sure Demonoid has it. Come on over and listen with us, Links in the TG thread <3 Much love from TG to LIT <3

>>1532859
I actually know what book it is, give me a second and I'll find it! I need to check my shelf

>>1532864
Really? Score! Thanks anon.

>>1532870
It's The Bellmaker. I'll leave shelfanon to perusing his collection a bit longer.

>>1532870
Yeah its Bellmaker

>>1532891
Oh, fuck yes, I remember that! I think I have a copy of it too. I also have Redwall on cassette. No cassette player though...

Goodbye, Father Abbot.

>>1532891
>>1532876
Sweet. Thanks, guys.

This is really upsetting. I'd read most of his book as a child.

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>>1532894

Oh God, Father Abbot's death!

I'd buried that deep down in my 10 year old self. Shit. It's all coming back.

Oh God.

Oh man... I have to go weep for the loss of so much awesome now... :(

Fav book: Salamandastron. Kickass Badgers all the fuckin' way, my friends.

I had the pleasure of being in a local stage production of Redwall a few years back. Played Redtooth and got to lead one of the few villain songs in the show. Fun times, fun times. A badger killed me but good in the end. ^_^

Cooking Otter's Hotroot Soup and Honeyed Apples with Mint Tea in his honor right now.

>>1532941
I doubt I could eat itt through all the tears, but dammit that made me hungry, good job anon.

>>1532948
Hotroot Soup:
3 tbsp black pepper, 7 tbsp paprika, 3 diced green onions, 1 diced elephant garlic, 1 cup shrimp, 3 cups water, 1 tbsp ground chili pepper.
Mix pepper and paprika in water on low heat for 5-10 minutes. Slowly add onions, garlic, and shrimp and cook at a slow boil. Add chili pepper and serve.

That said, it's pretty damn spicy.

>>1532951

Sounds good

>>1532951
I wish I had the time and ingredients to make this tonight. I remember my mom making it for my birthday when I was at the height of my Redwall fanaticism. Delicious.

/a/v/co/ guy here. I grew up on these books. They got me into reading hardcore in the 2nd grade, and I've never stopped reading as much as possible.

I really shouldn't be as emotional as I am right now, seeing as how I haven't touched a Jacques book in well over 10 years. But the news hurts. Best wishes to his family and all.

Guess I'll read some old favorites.

>>1532979
It came out a little watery though, if you follow that recipe cut it down to 2 cups water and maybe add a little salt.

>>1530575

/b/urrr hurrr, Oi um gon /b/e missin' you sir. Mista /b/rian Jacques, sir.

OH FUCK WHY
HE WAS ONE OF THE LAST THINGS GOOD ABOUT LIVING IN THIS WORLD!!!

I remember the first time I ate a scone when I was a kid. It was this magnificent feeling of, "they really do exist!"

feelsbadman.jpg

Well fuck. I just finished reading Mossflower again, came online and found this. Trying not to cry

Have seen the books in B&N and elsewhere but have never read any of them. After reading this thread, I may go out and buy/download the lot of them to read. But, wanted to know who the rat girl in the pic is. Is she a character from one of the books? TinEye turned up zilch. thanks anon

I really wish I didn't come on /lit/ today.

>>1533313
Opps... meant this rat girl >>1532979 Specifically looking for who the character is and if the artist has a site somewhere.

Guys I've read over this post like a thousand times and I still can't figure out the secret hidden code that will reveal the troll and grant us the power to make it not true. I think maybe I need to go sit on top of my house until it suddenly comes to me.

this is just the worst

>>1533363
go look at the tapestry

>>1533437

But I've already looked at it OVER AND OVER!.

It's just the same thing, over and over!

It's like OVER AND OVER I just keep...

..............................................................................OH MY GOD THAT'S IT.

OP here.

I don't visit /lit/ very often (I mostly stay on /mu/ and /k/, and the occasional Krautchan /int/) and I am surprised that this thread is still alive. I turned off my computer shortly after I made this thread. I honestly hoped that someone fucked with the wiki article. I didn't believe that he was dead. But now, after seeing the real deal articles on his death, I feel broken.

I've already finished Redwall, and now I'm halfway through Mossflower. Marlfox was my favorite book.

>Outcast of Redwall
The way I looked at the Redwall series was always that the creatures that were evil were not evil because they were evil, but because they were evil they were represented as those creatures.

Also, remember Gingervere or whatever his name was. He also married another cat that was not evil. Outcast of Redwall was about a guy who was bad and resentful of everything he got handed but he still eventually made the choice to be selfless because the Redwall way touched him deep down.

Goddamnit /lit/ I came here to celebrate Jules Verne's birthday, but instead I have my heart broken.

The man was a great writer, and the books were amazing. May he rest peacefully within the gardens of Redwall.

The Redwall Marathon is still going on over at my channel, LS Pink08, Currently on Season 2 of the Animated version. We Finished "The Long Patrol" Audio book last night. We may do "The Bellmaker" later today because it has a vermin that turns good.

Noooo!
This man is probably the reason I love reading, I was addicted to his books as a kid.
Well I need to get every single Redwall book now and devour them. Literally. Because I'm fairly sure his descriptions of food actually give the books a flavour.

A great author.

I've had that book in my liberary for years. I guess now would be a good time to read it.

>>1534557
library*

Derp.

sad day indeed T_T

Redwall? More like Deadwall am i rite?

how about you fucking man children grow up and stop crying over the death of some furry faggot.

>>1534943
More like Stonewall. Epic historical event for Tripfags.

>>1534943

mmmmmmbaby.

>>1534943
>Redwall? More like Deadwall am i rite?
more like Deadlawl am i rite?

>>1534943
Fix'd.

MOAR LIKE BROWNBORE AHASHDJAHSJAHHAHAHAhahaaaaaaaaaaA

>>1534961
i've been waiting a month for someone to do that

>>1534969
how did you pee!?

>>1534961
>>1534961

BAZINGA!

Man, I feel like shit now.
I always loved Redwall and probably always will. I've never been a happy person, but I always cheered up the moment I got to get a new one of those. That crazy building with all the good food and talking animals became my happy place.

Shit, still is.

>>1531748
The Rogue Crew is supposed to be the next one.
Assuming he finished it, I mean.
Hope so, the summary says it has a pirate boat that act like a tank.
That shit would be sweet.

>>1534969

You got front n' center bro. Grats. You deserved it.

i remember i saw the cartoon when i was a kid
it sucked

>>1535819
The TV series really didn't do the books justice, in my opinion. The art style bothered me and the story was severely abridged. I still loved it, though.

All of his books were good. but...

LLLLLLUUUUUUUTRRRRAAAAAAAAA