Favorite Book?

[falohn]

Ooh I really liked Triss! I think Triss and Shog are really cute together!

[Tibald]

(No one cares if a newbie posts, right?)

I enjoyed The Taggerung, but I think it may be considered my favorite because of nostalgic purposes. It was the book that caused me to start reading the Redwall novels, after all. Of course, the first several books in the series were great. The more recent seem to be lacking something...

[Ashstripe]

Of course not, we care more if they don't post.

Taggerung was really something, though I can't remember basically anything of it. The main character, that otter..I can't remember his name, was interesting if I remember right. And that healer...Rukkey or something similar, friend of Skipper.

[tSoMtW]

Tibald - I agree. The older books were all better. I find the new ones of a much slower pace.

[narehme]

ok this will show my age.... mmm my kids who are 7 and 8 year old boys, love to watch the Redwall movie, but more importantly they love to act out the characters... which is cute.

[tabasco]

Outcast of Redwall was my first Jacque's book; it remains my favorite to this day. I suppose it would have been a different story had I started off with a different Redwall book, since I /do/ have tendancies to.. prefer best the book I start the series off with. xD; I don't really know.. but my favorite characters in Outcast /had/ to be Tirry & Bruff & co., and Skarlath!~ (<3)

My second favorite is Pearls of Lutra, followed closely by Salamandastron. Those three books molded my childhood. xD;

[//Ah-Dol]

Oooo. I'm starting to read Taggerung. ^^ Just finished Triss, Salamandastron and Legend of Luke. -adds small amount to small list-

-coughs- Outcast is still my favourite. Taggerung may have had a more interesting start to it...but Outcast was always interesting. Hehe. If that makes sense. -laughs-

[clawstar]

Well, I like the book Salamandastron the best. It just seemed to have a certain flare that caught my attention. Haha, then as suspected, it was the first Redwall book I read. Quite an intense book, really xD. I also really liked Martin the Warrior, and so did my Mom xD. She read sections to me every night. Considering at that age I was a slower reader. Yet, do not worry, this was about six years ago. Glad I can read at quite a faster pace these days.

[Scarlet Rose]

I liked Taggerung the best.

[Faolinthor]

Taggerung was the best in the series, in my opinion. I've read it four times. Though, I haven't really read many of the newer books. I'm starting on High Rhulain, and I still haven't read Triss or Rakety Tamm. The older books, I agree, were a bit better than the newer ones.

[Skipper of Otters]

Me personal favorite has allus been Mossflower. I'd say close seconds t'that would be Pearls o' Lutra and Taggerung.

One thing I think th' newer books lack that I luved about th' older ones is that they don't connect much. Fer example, ye meet some o' the same characters in Long Patrol as in Pearls ' Lutra, like Arven and Tansy. I like readin' more than one story about favorite characters, like Mossflower an' Legend o' Luke.

[apsu]

My favorite is, as many have pointed out, the one I read first: Lord Brocktree. It's really funny, because later I figured out, even though it wasn't the first book that Brian Jacques made, it was the earliest in the Redwall Timeline. Because Dotti sets up the whole Long Patrol, and after Brocktree comes Boar the Fighter, Sunflash the Mace, etc. Boar the Fighter was in Martin the Warrior's time, which means that Lord Brocktree was even earlier than Martin the Warrior or Mossflower.

I like Taggerung next best, and then Mariel.

[Darkhawk Shadowheart]

I liked Taggerung, and Pearls of Lutra. Those were my favorit two books. I liked the Pearls for the fox who was nearly killed, twice, rose an uprising and tried to kill the king, and died.
However, I disliked the Outcast, which leads to my one issue with the Taggerung. In the Outcast, it makes the weasle(?) Veil, seem doomed to do evil. Sure you could say that he was expected to do evil, thus he did it, but in Taggerung, the otter was expected to become the Taggerung and lead the clan.... and doesn't after not slaying the one guy. I just don't really like it, but Outcast was a good story despite that one problem I had with it.

[rose]

I never understood why Veil really never did anything good, when he clearly gave his life for that girl. She said herself that he did not do it out of love, but then what did he do it for?

[Ashstripe]

Hmm..Well I suppose we could say it runs in the family? I always thought that his final action showed that he wasn't pure evil, which is good. I hate one-sided characters; it's always so much more interesting when their..inconsistent. At least give them a decent motive for their apparent evil..Sheesh.

My guess now that I'm a bit older and wiser since reading that book is that he did it out of..A feeling of debt I suppose, after all he did owe her a lot and he was grateful; just didn't show it. Least that's how I see it from memory now..

First statement applies to my view on the Taggerung too I guess, it's simply not in his nature, despite his upbringing..Or something like that, my memory is really hazy about that book in particular.

[rose]

But wouldn't you, by saying that, be saying it is in the nature of all "vermin" to be evil? Or wait.....GAHAHAHAHA..........I've comfused myself!!!

[Ashstripe]

XD. Not really, I was referring to his nature in particular to his family; genetics if you will. It's just one of those things I've read somewhere, genetics play a bigger part then appearance apparently. Buut like I said my memory is really[/i] hazy about Taggerung in particular..I can't even remember the main character's name.

'Good' and 'Evil' are only points of view after all, like say there is a tribe(Hypothetically..) whom performs sacrifices to a god, they believe what their doing is right and for the greater good of the world; everyone else thinks their off their nut and evil.

I think too much.

[maximus123]

i think that my favourite redwall book of all time has to be Martin the Warrior because every time i read that book, it feels like i havent read it before and i keep saying in my head, is he going to tell her or not, i thinks it really tragic about rose's death at the hands of badrang and this is the only reason that i think that the movieof Martin the Warrior is better than the book because it had me intears at the end although that may sound sad!!

[Rakko Streamwater]

Taggarung, without a doubt!

[Poisonsnarl the Vicious]

I loved "Rakkety Tam." The plot was just one of the best to me.


"Outcast of Redwall" and "Marlfox" were another two of my favourites. Very engaging. "Marlfox" Was my first actually.

Rakko Streamwater: I'm just now reading Taggerung actually. It's pretty good so far. I'm at the part where they just met Fwirl, I think it was, the squirrel? Anywho, it's pretty good.