Still a Sucker for Talking Animals

[tealin]

The ending of Mattimeo - or at least the peak in the denouement - still makes me want to laugh, cry, run around hugging people, or eat great loads of delicious food. Man, I love this book...

11:42 pm
Because I can't help myself... here are the first six Redwall books in the order they were written:

Redwall
Mossflower
Mattimeo
Mariel of Redwall
Salamandastron
Martin the Warrior

In my opinion, these are the best. The 'canon,' if you will, of the series ... everything written after Martin just doesn't seem ... quite ... right. Not quite authentic. I began to suspect a ghostwriter when they started accelerating releases - I mean, these books are quite lengthy and complicated, and have got to take more than eight months to write. So either less time was put into them or someone was brought on to "help" ... or I am a paranoid delusional conspiracy theorist.

So ... coming from me, if you want to read them, I'd advise you to read these ones first. So there. Yeah.

WHY am I still up this late?

Oh yeah, and if ancient weather suprstitions are to be believed, Spring is coming early, here, this year - you'd hardly suspect it with the crocuses bursting out all over and balmy breezes on the air...

11:57 pm
The best horoscope ever:

Sagittarius: (Nov. 22—Dec. 21)
You'll be surprisingly unconcerned with the theft of your intellectual property this week, when you find out that God stole your idea for a giant flying carnivorous porcupine that breathes fire.
[from The Onion]

Oh Mr. Gillis, you and your intellectual property, landing you in trouble again...

I am still not in bed. You'd think I'd learn...

Comments

[salamandersoup.livejournal.com]

Aha! I post at last.

Oh, good old Redwall. I remember these books from middle school, "Mattimeo" being the first one I read from the library there. The librarian thought I was a bit loony for checking it out over and over again as often as I did. I only own two from the series, but I haven't re-read them in ages. Time for a dusting off of Mossflower.

How DO you pronounce Salamandastron, anyway? I've always been saying it "sal-ah-MAN-dah-stron".

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Aha! That's how everyone says it! but they're wrong! Brian Jacques and I say it Sal-uh-man-DAS-tron. However, it is mat-tim-AY-o instead of ma-TIMMY-o, SLAY-gar instead of SLAG-er, ko-TEER instead of KO-ter, na-DAZ instead of NAH-duhz, mal-KAIR-iss instead of MAL-ku-riss, and who knows what else.