With grrm not finishing his series and Brandon’s slogfest of an epic should remind /lit/ that stand alones or trilogies are the only acceptable forms in lit. I have never read a long series that ended satisfactorily
Facts
>>25454298Goat
>>25454252>stand alones or trilogiesWhat about in between with book and sequel?
the best fantasy series is 41 books long, just avoid hacks
>>25454888Stand alones?
>>25454913Looks like slop
>>25454913These are stand alones (episodic) similar to op’s pic
>>25454252It's funny because Redwall is basically ASOIAF for kids. It's got two of GRRM's favorite things: massive feasts and gruesome deaths. Kid me was always amazed at how much blood and gore the Redwall books got away with while being ostensibly for children.
>>25455521Violence in children stories was kinda the norm pre 2000s even Disney had beheadings in Hercules
>>25455521>Kid me was always amazed at how much blood and gore the Redwall books got away with while being ostensibly for children.Between Redwall and Animorphs, I see my parents did not vet books 9 year old me was consuming.When I wanted to read Jurassic Park they didn’t try to discourage me either. I assume they didnt read far enough until the visceral disembowlments started happening.
>>25455637Nedry's death in the books definitely spooked me as a kid, reading it at night on my bed.>He was holding his own guts!
>>25455908>>25455637lol I somehow became the middle school censor because I was autistically reading everything, so the library would give me books to read to see if they needed censoring. I read a book about a kid getting a broom stuck up his ass in juvy
>>25454252Im working on the ending of mine and it's gonna be piping hot kino
>>25454252When Brian Jacques died I fully expected that someone would take up his helm and keep the Redwall series going, like James Bond or Jason Bourne.
>>25457953People are talking about it a lot more recently. It's come up a half-dozen times this week across multiple boards, when I hadn't heard anyone talk about it for years. So maybe something's brewing in the zeitgeist.
>>25457984Maybe the announcement of the Warrior Cats video game stirred up people's nostalgia.
>>25458012Warrior Cats doesn't hold a candle to Redwall. WC was a chick's series anyways.
>>25457953Jacques’s work is the antithesis to the amoral society that modern media is pushing >Abbeys are always good>vermin are always bad>respecting neighbors>expelling invaders>white coded>pro religion
Read the Jon Shannow trilogy.
>>25459958>TrilogyTetralogy, I mean.
>>25454913Essentially all of these books are standalone, even within individual subseries they are mostly self contained stories, just with repeated central characters
I dunno where fantasy/sci-fi writers get their egos from. No, I don't want to read your hacky Lord of the Rings/Dune/A Song of Ice and Fire rip-off that's longer than In Search of Lost Time. Keep your shit under 1500 pages.
The very first book "Redwall" will forever be my favourite.>>25459971Bit of a non sequitur.>>25459885>>pro religionThe books got less and less religious in nature as they went on.
