people with no imagination

[Jacob 123456789]

Can't remember when I've been so disappointed by a book that came so highly recommended and clearly has such a strong following. Seriously: I love a good yarn about talking animals as much as the next person, but I do expect some basic level of believability, maybe a good character or two... a plot...
One of the things that especially niggled at me was that I couldn't figure out the *scale* of the Redwall world. Are they mice and rats living clandestine in a human-built world? If so, where are the humans? Are they human-sized rodents in a people-free world? Then why are the horses and hay-wagons enormous and the churches inhabited by mice? It was never made clear. If I'd been in the least attracted by the dialog, characters, or storyline this would have been easy enough to ignore, but as it was, I barely made it through and crossed the rest of the series off of my "To Read" list.

okay I can see that she doesn't like the book, but, "scale"?

I just felt like ranting, give opinions and shtuff



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What series is this?

[heedicalking]

redwall

[Jacob 123456789]

mice with swords III revenge of the magical swords

redwall

party pooper

[ChexGuy331]

She's loving stupid.

Redwall was awesome...but I only liked Redwall, Mattimeo, and Martin the Warrior.

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redwall

Oh.
I really should've picked that up instantly.

I feel like I should read this now.

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redwall is and will always be badass.

it's like lord of the rings but instead of rings there's mice and stuff going at eachother.

and it's written quite well.

[Jacob 123456789]

Oh.
I really should've picked that up instantly.

I feel like I should read this now.

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[Jokey365]

So THIS is what normal people see writing like.
Thank the lord for giving me nothing but imagination.

[fred da kiko]

reading the redwall books in 4th grade also kind of messed with me because i had no idea how big the characters were in proportion to each other. for instance, the book with the pirate king (i read these like 6 years ago, i only remember the basic plot, famous scenes, memorable things ect.) there's a character who is a badger. in some scenes the badger seems to tower over the other main characters, the way he would in the real world, in others he seems to be roughly the same size. the same with otters, while trout seem to be much bigger than in real life, being able to eat mice who are the size of otters? the trees are really big too, but then again there are loving ravens that are the size of otters and birds the size of ants? i never really thought too hard about it since the books were really well written and the action scenes were very well done. it was just one of those things where you think "da fuq?" and move on.

[Jacob 123456789]

reading the redwall books in 4th grade also kind of messed with me because i had no idea how big the characters were in proportion to each other. for instance, the book with the pirate king (i read these like 6 years ago, i only remember the basic plot, famous scenes, memorable things ect.) there's a character who is a badger. in some scenes the badger seems to tower over the other main characters, the way he would in the real world, in others he seems to be roughly the same size. the same with otters, while trout seem to be much bigger than in real life, being able to eat mice who are the size of otters? the trees are really big too, but then again there are loving ravens that are the size of otters and birds the size of ants? i never really thought too hard about it since the books were really well written and the action scenes were very well done. it was just one of those things where you think "da fuq?" and move on.

For me I generally make myself a "size scale" of sorts. Mice are around the height of your normal human being, as with squirrels, shrews, and voles. Moles being a bit smaller, of course. Otters are usually about a head taller than mice, and badgers being very tall.

[fred da kiko]

For me I generally make myself a "size scale" of sorts. Mice are around the height of your normal human being, as with squirrels, shrews, and voles. Moles being a bit smaller, of course. Otters are usually about a head taller than mice, and badgers being very tall.

but the trees, ravens, and trout are loving gigantic. meaning the rivers they were going down were loving huge, if so, what about when they were in the ocean? was the sea life that big too? was the terrain proportional to the ravens and trout or were they proportional to the mice? what about the lilly pads, i remember reading that the mice could walk on them. this is why i don't tend to over brown townyze books, you find somewhere the author majorly forgeted up and go crazy trying to justify it.

[Jacob 123456789]

but the trees, ravens, and trout are loving gigantic. meaning the rivers they were going down were loving huge, if so, what about when they were in the ocean? was the sea life that big too? was the terrain proportional to the ravens and trout or were they proportional to the mice? what about the lilly pads, i remember reading that the mice could walk on them. this is why i don't tend to over brown townyze books, you find somewhere the author majorly forgeted up and go crazy trying to justify it.

different galaxies

[Nexus]

as soon as this page loaded my eyes were immediately caught by the word "niggled"

wtf

[Jacob 123456789]

as soon as this page loaded my eyes were immediately caught by the word "niggled"

wtf

Haha, I didn't notice that