Redwall Novels

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AppSkier

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Has anyone read any of the redwall series? Im normally not big on reading but these are good books. I suggest them to anyone thats being forced to read for school. The author is Brian Jaques.

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I read the original Redwall books (Redwall, Martin, Mattemeo) a *long* time ago when I was in about 5th or 6th grade (I'm 22 now, for a point of reference).

'Love is the womb of violence'
 
Yeah, i read Redwall and Mossflower a while ago. I recently got into them again and i just finished The Long Patrol and im reading Marlfox right now.

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I was really into those in like 6-7th grade, what was the one with the big badger who kicked everyone's ass?

But now I'm into Dostoevsky, so............

-Ethan
 
I couldn't get into Dostoyevsky much. But I definitely like his style better than Camus. I *loathed* 'The Stranger,' and I can't stand the existentialist style of writing. Now a great book is 'The Invisible Man,' by Ralph Ellison. 'Things Fall Apart,' by Achbee is good. Voltaire's 'Candide' was a fun read, although a little bit warped. Speaking of warped reading, I reccomend 'Justine' by the Marquis deSade along with his other texts. Can't say that I've read 'Venus in Furs' yet. Hrmmm... what else is there, 'Ozymandias' remains one of my favorite poems along with 'I Shall not be Moved' and 'Dream Deferred.' 'Galbi' by Amram Aharon is good, but sounds better in Hebrew than it does in English. Naturally (being part Yemeni) any poem by Shalem Shabazi or Yehudah haLewi is going to evoke chords of love and longing in my heart.

Ani bema`arav aval levi bemizrah - I am in the west, but my heart is in the east

-Yehudhah haLewi
 
Boar the fighter is the one youre talin about kamikaze. Too bad he got killed in the only book he was in :P

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My sister got real into those books, read the whole lot like 6 times over, she reads lots, I didn't even try and read them. I only like action, like Tom Clancy and stuff.

'When people say you have a one track mind, tell them they're only half right. Skiing leaves 2 tracks!' - Seth Morrison
 
i loved those books. I was obsessed with them. there were a bunch of badgers, but yeah boar the fighter was one, I have like every one of those books, except Marlfox.

 
Yea I read the Redwall books back in the days of 5th and 6th grades, they were good fun.

As for Camus, I'm not a big fan if his writing style, but I do agree with many aspects of the exsistentialist view of Sarte, Camus, etc. I certainly don't fit the exsistentialist profile in every way, but I largely favor their views of issues like morality over those of other's like Kant.

What other philosophy have you read Gregg? I am not real knowledgeable, but I am familiar with most of the basics from many of the major philosophers and would certainly be interested in reading a bit more.

 
My sister just said that they are kids books and that if you are reading them now you have the intellectual ability of a meat pie, ah well, I don't think she meant it.

'When people say you have a one track mind, tell them they're only half right. Skiing leaves 2 tracks!' - Seth Morrison
 
Don't listen to anything he says, he's just trying to increase his post count.

I read those books years ago, I still have them on my bookshelf, the first 9.

 
G-dubs: I've read 'Metaphysics' by Aristotle, Dialogues of Plato, the Kuzari, The Guide for the Perplezed, Also Spake Zaruthstra, Beyond Good and Evil, Justine, Philosophy in the Bedroom, The Book of Beleifs and Opinions, The Prince, The Communist Manifesto, Leviathan, Halakhic Man, some excerpts of Philo Judaeus, some excerpts of Aquinas, and some excerpts of Augustine. BTW, Christianity originally had an existentialist streak to it

Ani bema`arav aval levi bemizrah - I am in the west, but my heart is in the east

-Yehudhah haLewi
 
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