Redwall: the Evillest Children's Book Series of All Time
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this thread is somehow funnier the second time around.
also I loved these books in elementary school, but the one about that rat kid named Veil (hurr durr it's "evil" with rearranged spelling) made me pretty upset.
another one had two dumb rats who were trying to act good until they accidentally killed someone :/ It reminds me of this certain view some christians have of how god determines at someone's birth if theyre going to heaven or hell, I wonder if that's where this nature over nurture perspective in his books comes from?
Completely forgot about this series. They were pretty brutal, Cluny the Scourge was a fuckin nutter.
[QUOTE=scotty1;33806082]I really liked all of the Redwall books in elementary school for two reasons. First of all, they have good story lines that you can actually follow as a kid, and secondly at my school we had something called "Accelerated Reader" [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerated_Reader[/url]. You basically have to read a book and take a test on it whenever you finish. If you get a high score on a test you get points that go toward a goal for the semester. If you meet your goal, which is assigned to you based on your reading skills, you get to go to a special field trip to the bowling alley at the semester's end. Redwall books always were worth about 15 points and my average goal was 35. So I would read two of the books per semester and maybe one more small book and boom I was done.
The thing that would really piss off the teachers is when I would read a Lord of the Rings or Harry Potter book, which were worth like 40 points. I would read one book and be done with the dumbass AR. :smug:
But I agree, they are evil.[/QUOTE]
My school had that shit, only you didn't have an AR point quota. Instead you collected them over time and probably like once a semester there'd be an opportunity to spend AR points on goodies and stuff. Shit was so cash. I had the extra advantage that my mum was a teacher so she could reset my account so I would keep testing the same books over every year. One other girl pulled that shit like me, but she was ridiculous getting point ranges past 150 points and shit.
[QUOTE=Corndog Ninja;33833392]I met him and got [I]two[/I] books signed by him
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I was a little, socially awkward child and was at a book signing at one of the local Barnes and Noble book store with my cousin. I could hardly muster a "thank you." sad.
[QUOTE=catbarf;33823053]In any other context I'd agree with you, but subtleties and moral complexity don't really work for children's books. The last thing you want is for kids to not know who the good guy actually is, because then the story just becomes incomprehensible to them.[/QUOTE]
nonono, you highlighted the problem
Kids don't understand moral ambiguity only because they're taught right from birth that there always has to be a good guy and a bad guy
I remember these books.
There was an otter who murdered "vermin" in their sleep and ate them.
He was a cool guy.
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