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Watership Down (Watership Down, #1)

Richard Adams

Start date: January 1, 2012

Finish date: January 31, 2012

Why we're reading this: This book was selected from the CIGURL list for January 2012.
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Jun 01, 2017 Beth rated it really liked it

Shelves: fantasy, foolscap-club

This has held up really well. It’s well constructed, the rabbit characters are great, and it delivers so many great payoffs as Hazel grows in wisdom and authority. It does need better women, and the sequel Tales helps a bit with that, but it’s a great example of talking animals, a genre that lies between mainstream and fantasy literature.

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Oct 28, 2017 Chris rated it it was amazing

Shelves: audiobook, classics, united-kingdom, animals

This is probably the book that has been on my TBR shelf the longest - probably a good 30 years or more. Maybe that's because I generally don't like anthropomorphism, but I'm glad to say this is a delightful exception.
I totally bought into the world of Hazel and Fiver. And when I thought of them, I thought of them as rabbits, not some sort of human/rabbit. Adams does such an amazing job of building this universe from a rabbit's perspective. I loved their adventures, escaping almost certain death ...more

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Apr 05, 2015 Rachel N. rated it really liked it

Fiver is a rabbit who has visions of the future. He convinces his brother Hazel and a few other rabbits that something bad is going to happen to their warren so they set out to create a new warren. The beginning of the book was a bit slow for me but it picked up when the rabbits start dealing with the Efrafa warren. I liked most of the characters and found myself rooting for the Watership Down rabbits. I didn't like the stories the rabbits told each other for amusement. ...more

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