Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Books I have enjoyed, the Redwall series

The Redwall series is written by Brian Jacques. In the series, the only characters are animals, although there was a reference to a town in the first book. The animals can be assumed to have opposable thumbs because they are able to hold onto various things. Each animal has an accent, which is sometimes broken, for example, an educated mole, for plot purposes. Most of the story revolves around an abbey named Redwall named for its large red brick walls. But there was one warrior who was supposed to be there to defend the abbey. The abbey, of course had certain creatures that their species was known for fighting skills just in case. In addition to accents, each animal had a different type of attitude, for example, badgers were supposed to be huge living war machines, but could be caring animals when not under attack. One interesting thing about the series is that the difference in size between animals has been diminished, so badgers for example, are not so huge compared to mice as they are in real life. The whole thing is set in a sort of medieval time with vermin as bandits and warlords. Each character in the book appears at least twice in different books. And sometimes they only appear once because there was a time switch. What I like about it, is that it is jumping around in time, and if you read it in chronological order, nothing would make sense.

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