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Do you have a problem where, none of your friends have read Redwall?

Started by Rusvul, January 08, 2013, 01:02:59 AM

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Do you have a problem where, none of your friends have read Redwall?

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No, not at all. Everyone I know loves Redwall.
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Some people I know like it, some don't.
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KitrallStreamrippler

#30
February 21, 2013, 09:24:50 PM
Well, none of my friends had heard of Redwall- until I told them about it. Now, whenever I mention "a really cool book/series that I like" they say, "Oh, you mean those books about the talking animals?" Hmph. It's not just talking animals. As Mr. Jacques so perfectly summarized (in Mariel of Redwall, I think) these books are about "battles, banquets, comrades, quests recalled 'midst glowing embers".
A day may come when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship, but it is not this day. An hour of woes and shattered shields, when the age of men comes crashing down! But it is not this day! This day we fight!

Redwallfan7

#31
March 19, 2013, 07:41:29 PM
Even though I get along pretty good with my two friends, they're more into paranormal (like vampire related things). That's fine for them but I think the Redwall series is much better. I hate paranormal because it's filled with mary sues. Bella Swan especially gets on my nerves
"There's some good in this world, Mr.Frodo, and it's worth fighting for."-Samwise Gamgee from The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

cregga rose eyes

#32
March 19, 2013, 07:47:11 PM
Quote from: KitrallStreamrippler on February 21, 2013, 09:24:50 PM
Well, none of my friends had heard of Redwall- until I told them about it. Now, whenever I mention "a really cool book/series that I like" they say, "Oh, you mean those books about the talking animals?" Hmph. It's not just talking animals. As Mr. Jacques so perfectly summarized (in Mariel of Redwall, I think) these books are about "battles, banquets, comrades, quests recalled 'midst glowing embers".

My friends say pretty much the same thing. I think one of my friends would really like it, but she's skeptical.
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Redwallfan7

#33
March 19, 2013, 08:01:13 PM
Quote from: cregga rose eyes on March 19, 2013, 07:47:11 PM
Quote from: KitrallStreamrippler on February 21, 2013, 09:24:50 PM
Well, none of my friends had heard of Redwall- until I told them about it. Now, whenever I mention "a really cool book/series that I like" they say, "Oh, you mean those books about the talking animals?" Hmph. It's not just talking animals. As Mr. Jacques so perfectly summarized (in Mariel of Redwall, I think) these books are about "battles, banquets, comrades, quests recalled 'midst glowing embers".

My friends say pretty much the same thing. I think one of my friends would really like it, but she's skeptical.
My friends get skeptical too.
"There's some good in this world, Mr.Frodo, and it's worth fighting for."-Samwise Gamgee from The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

rachel25

#34
March 20, 2013, 04:05:34 PM
um this is going to sound so bad but I don't have any friends and the ones I did have had never heard of Redwall though my brother has a friend whose brother reads redwall and he's even joined the Forum (thanks to me because i told him about it) my brother does read redwall but he likes star wars books better and my sister use to read them but she went off to College and prefures what she calles "grow up books"  ;D  :D  ;)  :)  :-*  :P  ::)  8)  :o

cregga rose eyes

#35
March 20, 2013, 07:45:16 PM
Quote from: rachel25 on March 20, 2013, 04:05:34 PM
um this is going to sound so bad but I don't have any friends and the ones I did have had never heard of Redwall though my brother has a friend whose brother reads redwall and he's even joined the Forum (thanks to me because i told him about it) my brother does read redwall but he likes star wars books better and my sister use to read them but she went off to College and prefures what she calles "grow up books"  ;D  :D  ;)  :)  :-*  :P  ::)  8)  :o

Two of my older sisters (who are twins) used to read Redwall (I started reading it because of them), but I think they slowly stopped reading it once they started college a few years ago (or maybe a little before). I think they stopped for a similar reason thinking Redwall was to childish.
Drifting with the wind
I usually go by LakeLake nowadays

Jukka the Sling

#36
October 27, 2013, 02:04:05 AM Last Edit: October 28, 2013, 04:19:18 PM by Jukka the Sling
Revive!

I sort of have that problem, but not as bad as some, I guess. Two of my sisters are extreme Redwall fans like me. And I've met a few homeschoolers who've read or heard of it.

My sisters and I got the girl next door to try it; she started Redwall, got the gist of what was going on, but didn't like it because she didn't understand all the words. She didn't even know what a habit and a monk were, for starters!  :-\

Also, everyone nowadays seems to like Warriors, which I haven't read. But it's similar to Redwall, so more Warriors fans should try Redwall!
"The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater." ~J.R.R. Tolkien

Vilu Daskar

#37
October 29, 2013, 12:46:47 AM
Only one person I know has read Redwall but she is my sister and hasn't read them all
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redwallgurl

#38
October 29, 2013, 11:36:28 PM
This was like the biggest problem for me last year. I would always read these books during class and one of them had a picture of Brian Jacques on the back. The whole back cover was literally covered with his face. From then on they started calling Redwall the old man books. So now they'll be like, "You still reading those old man books redwallgurl?"
Such a huge issue for me.
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Jukka the Sling

#39
October 29, 2013, 11:39:59 PM
@redwallgurl: That's horrible!  :-\
"The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater." ~J.R.R. Tolkien

redwallgurl

#40
October 29, 2013, 11:41:06 PM
It's an inside joke now so it's not really too too bad.
Fun. is a fantastic band.

Jukka the Sling

#41
October 29, 2013, 11:42:20 PM
Still, that's rude of them! And they don't even know how awesome these books are!
"The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater." ~J.R.R. Tolkien

redwallgurl

#42
October 29, 2013, 11:47:00 PM
Yeah I guess, I've told them to read Redwall but some people are just "less" smart and won't listen to good advice.
Fun. is a fantastic band.

Jukka the Sling

#43
October 29, 2013, 11:50:35 PM
Do any of your friends read Warriors? (I've never read it but it's fairly similar to Redwall... with anthropomorphic animals and all that.) I was thinking that could be a starting point for you to get your friends interested in Redwall.
"The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater." ~J.R.R. Tolkien

Ungatt Trunn

#44
November 05, 2013, 04:18:16 AM
Quote from: redwallgurl on October 29, 2013, 11:36:28 PM
This was like the biggest problem for me last year. I would always read these books during class and one of them had a picture of Brian Jacques on the back. The whole back cover was literally covered with his face. From then on they started calling Redwall the old man books. So now they'll be like, "You still reading those old man books redwallgurl?"
Such a huge issue for me.
Now, thats rude! I wonder what they'ed call LOTR or The Hobbit...thats just not nice. :(

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