You know these books are basically A Song Of Ice And Fire but better. I know they're for kids, but nonetheless they're just better-executed at all the shit GRRM tries to do. They've got gory deaths just like ASOIAF, they've got perilous stakes just like ASOIAF, they've got puzzles and mysteries just like ASOIAF, and they've got elaborate descriptions of feasts and meals just like ASOIAF. It's just that none of it sucks, and it doesn't leave us waiting for a story conclusion that will probably never come.
Ok but this whole beautiful world of flight and fancy would be obliterated by a single pit bull
The 'race' of animal determines if it's good or bad, so it's really just simplistic stories of good and evil for children.
>>24551090Turns out Brian Jacques was a giant bigot!
>>24551090the more a story tries to confuse issues of morality, the less i want to read it. simplistic moral fables should have a constant place at the table or your entire conception of fiction is going to be the modernists onwards. id rather reread the first redwall then trudge through ulysseys again.
>>24553018couldn't have said it better myself
>>24553018>>24551090>>24551353Fables teach us that there are different "kinds" of people or archetypal personae, or grades of moral character. But you're missing the point of anthropomorphization if you interpret it racially. (and don't say that's not where you were headed with this; we both know.) Animals are useful standins in allegory and parable, precisely because they allow us to get beyond or behind the thick associative mesh of human-on-human interaction/preconception. Anyone could be the fox, or the scorpion, or the lion. Embody the good.
>>24551074the little dudes with weapons could probably beat a pitbull
>>24551074You severely underestimate the viciousness and power of a full grown boar badger.
>>24551074>tfw jacques never did a novel where humans are more directly alluded to and they unleash the equivalent of a walking nuke onto the redwall community in the form of a trained hunting pitbull and various factions from the series canon have to band together to stop iti would name him cerberus and make him so evil that he can even kill ghosts. the long patrol dies first.
