RIP Brian Jacques
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- sseo
"Mr. Jacques died on Saturday in Liverpool, at 71. The death was announced by his North American publisher, Penguin Young Readers Group. The Liverpool newspapers reported that he died after emergency heart surgery."
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- locustsloth0
Wow. That's a shame. My son and i read all of the Redwall series together. i know he had one in the works, i wonder if it got finished.
i also wonder if this will pave the way to a Redwall movie. From what i heard, he was always resistant, wanting the stories to stay in kids imagination (even though he allowed those animated series, which were terrible). Depending on how they do it, and if they stay true to the books, it could be fantastic. Or, of course, an abomination.
Interesting fact: his descriptions of things are so rich and in depth because he originally started writing for blind kids, so he had to describe things to people who had no visual reference to go by
What a loss
- Amazon says "The Rogue Crew" will be released on May 5th. Hopefully it was done so that holdslocustsloth
- sseo0
Neat fact, I had no idea he wrote for blind kids originally. I've most of them myself, minus the ones that were published in the past seven years or so.
I'm torn on having the books made into films as well, but leaning towards no. There's just too much story to tell, even if adapted somehow. Also, I agree with his sentiment that the visuals are best left to kids imaginations...
I'd like to take a week or two and read them all over again so I can finish the last couple.
- scarabin0
no way. my girl and i created a dish called "redwall soup" that we make regularly. so sad to hear he's gone...
- hottroot and watershimp?locustsloth
- garden vegetables, tubers and creamscarabin
- These books got me to eat so many vegetables.sseo
- locustsloth0
So did you read them in order of release, or chronologically in terms of Redwall time. We read "Redwall" first and then went back and started wih Lord Brocktree and made our way up through Redwall time (the list of how they go chronologically is here http://redwall.wikia.com/wiki/Re…).
Our favorite bits were when stuff in subsequent stories would refer back to previous characters and events. He didn't do that so much in the later ones.
i think my favorite may have been either The Legend of Luke or Mossflower.
They can get kind of brutal for kids. Beheadings and such. The fact that they're cratures softens the blow considerably, i think.
My kid's gonna be crushed that he's gone- I was about 12 or so when I started reading them, beginning with Redwall, then tried my best to keep up chronologically. I remember making trips to the library and asking if there was a new one out yet.sseo
- chronologically. I finished them in a day, they were just so entertaining. I would go to the library every week and ask about new ones.sseo
- if there were any new releases.sseo
- caspar_v0
what a sad sad loss. i too read a great deal of those books as a kid and adored every single one. may he rest in peace.