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17 Jan 2006, 14:04
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I dunno...
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Re: Books
I used to love the Redwall series as a kid, too. Fighting mice etc. And the Hardy Boys. Damn, they were fun.
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17 Jan 2006, 14:17
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Join Date: Apr 2001
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Re: Books
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Originally Posted by Boogster
I used to love the Redwall series as a kid, too. Fighting mice etc. And the Hardy Boys. Damn, they were fun.
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I was having a discussion with a friend the other day about how the Redwall books are so much better than Harry Potter.
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17 Jan 2006, 14:17
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Next goal wins!
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: London
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Re: Books
Oh Redwall, brilliant
i read loads of those in primary school, still have them all in a bookcase somewhere. I remember finishing one in one day when i was sick off school and being quite proud. The badger guy was my favourite, although I can't remember his name now
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17 Jan 2006, 14:26
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I dunno...
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: manchester
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Re: Books
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Originally Posted by Deepflow
Oh Redwall, brilliant
i read loads of those in primary school, still have them all in a bookcase somewhere. I remember finishing one in one day when i was sick off school and being quite proud. The badger guy was my favourite, although I can't remember his name now
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Yeah, I enjoyed the ones with the badgers and the hares most, too. 'Salamandastron' was my favourite, closely followed by 'The Long Patrol'. Oh, the memories.
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17 Jan 2006, 14:40
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mmm lambs
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: London
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Re: Books
The Redwall series was brilliant. I used to love things like that when younger as a series meant I always had something else to read and would keep my going for a while without having to hunt around for something new which I couldn't be sure I would like.
I can't really remember much about them now though or which was my favourite Shame the Nickelodeon tv series of it was an absolute disgrace.
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17 Jan 2006, 15:33
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Join Date: May 2001
Location: Further to the right
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Re: Books
When I was in america looking for something to read on the flights I bought one of the redwall books because it reminded me so much of being young
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18 Jan 2006, 08:06
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Behe
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Arizona
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Re: Books
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Originally Posted by Proxi
By the way, has anyone here ever read the dark tower seires by Stephen King? I absolutely loved them, even though i don't normally like his kind of writing.
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Im an avid King reader (so bent on him, i collect him in first edition)
If you get a chance read:
The Talisman
The Stand
The Black House
Insomnia
and Eyes Of the dragon (one of my all time favorites)
Thes above listed books all are written in parallel with the Dark Tower Series. As is desperation, the regulators and hearts in atlantis, although the last 3 arent very good stories.
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18 Jan 2006, 08:18
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Join Date: Dec 2005
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Re: Books
The Redwall series... Ahhh what I'd do to be able to be a kid again and read them
I think Mattimeo was probably my favourite. I stopped reading after The Outcast of Redwall, although I got that signed by the man himself
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18 Jan 2006, 09:24
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Love's Sweet Exile
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Living on a Stair (Now Sword-less)
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Re: Books
I used to love Redwall too!
Robin Jarvis was good too, with the Deptford Mice trilogy and the Deptford Histories series (may well have been a trilogy also....)
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18 Jan 2006, 10:57
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Join Date: May 2000
Location: Bishop Auckland Co. Durham
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Re: Books
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Originally Posted by Stifler
My dad also had a set of six books called the Amtrax Wars, that I got into when I was younger and just reread last year, I dont remember the author but they followed a "gifted" brother and sister in world after a nuclear war where there are three main races, Trackers (people who sealed themselves below ground just before the war, who live in a very rigid system and very high tech,) Mutes (all the people caught above ground who as such are deformed by the radiation) and "Iron Masters" (very much based on the Japanese Samurai system, and who have banned "dark light" (electricity.))
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did you not find them terribly hard going? Read them a few years ago and found them to be a real slog.
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18 Jan 2006, 12:26
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Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Swansea
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Re: Books
It is very long, but I found the story was quite interesting and so didnt take much effort to read.
Although, what I did find is each book tended to start off quite slowly, so the first say 1/5 of the books I would say could be a slog, but once you got passed each books start and into the story proper they held my attention.
I think when I reread them recently, it took me the same amount of time to read the first 1/5th of the book as it took to read the last 4/5, simply because once I got into the last 4/5th I kept saying "I'll just read a bit more for now" amd then couple minutes later "I'll just read a few more pages"
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19 Jan 2006, 10:30
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The Original Carebear
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Trondheim, Norway
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Re: Books
http://www.adherents.com/people/100_novel.html
100 best novels of all time. Or?
Wich ones should be there, and aren't, and wich ones that are there, shouldn't be there?
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