Who is/are your favorite fictional character(s)

[Liquid Blue]

Hence, why I said the case was of medieval fantasy.

I like Brian Jacques, cause no one is more consistent with his material, yet creative as fuck. The guy is a great descriptive writer (he makes forest food sound fucking delicious), writes great riddles, has great characters, writes more song lyrics than Eminem. He's just an overall great writer. He doesn't get his credit due cause he writes books with animals as his characters, and his main target audience are kids]

this times a billion

his books were a huge part of what got me into reading, and prepared me for the epic battles of LOTR

i don't know if any of you caught the animated tv show when it was out, but at the end of each show he was on (IRL) talking about this character or the inspiration for that scene

he's really fucking awesome and literally seems like a grandpa that tells these types of stories to his kids during a snowstorm

[gran guerrero]

I saw the movie Perfume, which was pretty awesome

[Squeezer]

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
The Saga of the Volsungs (meh...it was ok)
^ since christmas

Currently Reading:
The Prince by Machiavelli
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
The Brothers Karamosov by Dostoevsky
Perfume by Patrick Suskind

In Line:
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Fear and Trembling by Soren Kierkegaard
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

Oscar Wao and Perfume were both surprisingly great books.

[gran guerrero]

Hence, why I said the case was of medieval fantasy.

I like Brian Jacques, cause no one is more consistent with his material, yet creative as fuck. The guy is a great descriptive writer (he makes forest food sound fucking delicious), writes great riddles, has great characters, writes more song lyrics than Eminem. He's just an overall great writer. He doesn't get his credit due cause he writes books with animals as his characters, and his main target audience are kids (but hey he also did humans once too, Check out The Flying Dutchman, and The Angel's Command)

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This is not a book, but you should check out this movie sometime:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_From_Earth

[Summa]

Anyone else read good books lately?

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
The Saga of the Volsungs (meh...it was ok)
^ since christmas

Currently Reading:
The Prince by Machiavelli
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
The Brothers Karamosov by Dostoevsky
Perfume by Patrick Suskind

In Line:
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Fear and Trembling by Soren Kierkegaard
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

[Squeezer]

I've read all of Brian Jacques' books. I'm even currently reading his new one; Doomwyte.


Animal Farm is considered a very good book and is often a book chosen for reading in most schools. Redwall series is no different, but the case is medieval fantasy.

And the political undertones are nonexistent.

I'm not a fan. I don't think Brian Jacques is a bad author, but I've never been a fan. I put him on par with Rowling, Grisham, Koontz, Clancy, Dan Brown etc. Authors that found their niche and write solid books in one category.

Lately I've been in the mood for living novelists. I just ordered House of Sand and Fog and The Garden of Last Days by Andre Dubus. I've been powering through the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and reading American Psycho on the side.

Anyone else read good books lately?

[gran guerrero]

I've read all of Brian Jacques' books. I'm even currently reading his new one; Doomwyte.

gay animals fighting each other make for gay books.

Animal Farm is considered a very good book and is often a book chosen for reading in most schools. Redwall series is no different, but the case is medieval fantasy.

[Liquid Blue]

you sir, will not disrespect my childhood memories

don't get gay

[Squeezer]

gay animals fighting each other make for gay books.

[D1st0rt]

Pearls of Lutra best book in the whole series, straight up

[Liquid Blue]

woop di doo, i told him to read the second book (the one with gonff) instead of the first book of the series

it's all good shit, and I never read them in order when I was a little kid anyway

I think the Bellmaker was the first one I read, that or Mossflower

[gran guerrero]

man if you don't know about gonff

then you need to go hit up mossflower, immediately

actually the proper starting place would be Redwall

With Matthias and shit.

[Liquid Blue]

man if you don't know about gonff

then you need to go hit up mossflower, immediately

[paradise!]

what!

Martin The Warrior and Gonff the Prince of Mousethieves bitch

sounds like you guys are speaking some kind of code, gran.

[Liquid Blue]

urthstripe the strong

redwall reppin'

long patrol

sup