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Anyone ever read this wonderful series? It’s got multiple sagas to it.

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[–] jpreston2005@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

It's so good. Read it as a kid, and his descriptions of feasts and banquets were so vivid it would make me salivate.

They made a childrens TV show out of it, and none other than Tim Curry himself voiced Cluny the rat!

[–] absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 5 points 1 day ago

Well now I have a new show to seek out.

[–] 0ops@piefed.zip 5 points 1 day ago

I've never read the books, but I remember liking the show a lot!

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I read the first one as an adult, and loved it. After I finished, and was thinking about it,I realized it was actually a book about all the various ways that an army would try to beat a siege, and breach the castle walls. Brute force, over, under, using spies and traitors, lone operative, etc., all under the guise of a children's story. Fascinating.

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] jpreston2005@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

it is, except more PG-13