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Post by madhair60 on Feb 7, 2011 21:22:40 GMT
And with that, another piece of my childhood is gone.
Brian Jacques, author of the Redwall series of books, has passed away at 71 from a heart attack.
Respect...
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lordgazza
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Post by lordgazza on Feb 7, 2011 21:33:09 GMT
Respect.........I am that is.
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Post by Arch_one_zero_one on Feb 8, 2011 1:39:19 GMT
Redwall was one of my favourite book series when I was younger - I'll always remember that my late grandpa bought me 'Martin the Warrier' for my birthday, and I was hooked from the get-go.
R.I.P.
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Post by Moo on Feb 8, 2011 11:58:26 GMT
Probably one of the few series of books I read.  RIP. |
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Post by Pitt on Feb 8, 2011 16:38:48 GMT
I really enjoyed these books.
<raises glass of October Ale>
RIP.
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Post by Sin on Feb 8, 2011 18:51:20 GMT
Maximum respect, the Redwall series was totally the thing that got me into reading as a kid and I can't even begin to imagine the scope of its influence on my general writing skills and my ability to describe feasts in massive detail.
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Post by lordgazza on Feb 8, 2011 23:15:15 GMT
Maximum respect, the Redwall series was totally the thing that got me into reading as a kid and I can't even begin to imagine the scope of its influence on my general writing skills and my ability to describe feasts in massive detail. It was one of a number of thins that got me into writing too. He'll be missed. |
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Post by Samface on Feb 9, 2011 10:40:27 GMT
Very sad news. I've popped a little tribute up on my blog, to which I will add that I'm now considering reading the nine novels in the series released after I stopped getting them (I only got as far as Lord Brocktree) for completeness' sake... |
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Post by Arch_one_zero_one on Feb 9, 2011 15:02:59 GMT
I'm now considering reading the nine novels in the series released after I stopped getting them (I only got as far as Lord Brocktree) for completeness' sake... Me too. I don't think I even got as far as Lord Brocktree - Pearls of Lutra was the last one I remember reading. |
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Post by RS on Feb 16, 2011 14:16:32 GMT
Was it definitely a heart attack? I heard it was an aneurysm, which was more likely in my mind since he had a series of strokes. I was expecting it for the last few years to be honest. Here's something I posted on another site: Brian Jacques was and is my favourite author as I discovered him way back when. His way of writing such a vivid world that you wanted to become a part of and lose yourself in was fantastic, and came at a key time in my life when I needed just that. He helped me, through his books, to keep myself together basically, and on top of that he directly helped start my own writing of fiction, as the first serious stories I wrote were actually Redwall fanfiction, and he also helped me get online: My very first real internet session was on a Dreamcast, a pithy 28k-ish modem, pulling an all-nighter visiting places like Snowfur's Redwall Encyclopedia and Terrouge Productions. That was when t'internet was pay-per-minute, and I racked up over £200 in charges that night. *Laughs* These days I still visit the Redwall MUCK RPG, and have made some good friends there over the years. Additionally, if it wasn't for my fledgling writing career that he directly influenced, I may very well not be at a TV studio today, and the music I write would sound very different. Brian Jacques, though he never knew it, was a huge influence on my life, and that's why I'll miss him. [In response to a slight if respectful critiquing of the books:] As I discussed with somebody yesterday, he didn't use super-fancy language and didn't write to strict guidelines. He had a classic 1950s-70s writing style that was filled with charm, and a lot of that charm was becase, in the original especially, he wasn't writing to be published, he was writing because he enjoyed writing. He was writing to show friends and family primarily, and it shows. In fact, many of the greatest fictional novels were written as such, such as Peter Pan and Winnie the Pooh. One thing about his writing is that in addition to friends and family, he wrote the stories to read to kids at local schools for the blind, and so they're incredibly descriptive. It became the norm for me: I thought my fanfiction was really lacking in description, yet its richness and detail is what everyone praised first. And it had only a fraction of the actual novels. I'll try to stave off my usual cynicism toward the internet when I say that if you step away from the "amateur critic" mindset the internet has on people, and just try to remember that innocent childhood mindset, and don't review but just experience and enjoy, then you could really enjoy the books. Check out Martin the Warrior, The Legend of Luke and (My fave) Mariel of Redwall. Fantastic. |
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RIP.
