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Watership Down (Watership Down, #1)

Richard Adams

Start date: July 6, 2008

Finish date: August 19, 2008

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Sep 02, 2008 Otis Chandler rated it it was amazing

Shelves: fantasy, fiction, adventure, england

I read this after hearing from a few people that it was among their all-time favorites. I was almost put off when I saw it was a story about rabbits, originally written as a tale by a father to his children - but I'm glad I wasn't.

I found the folk tales about El-ahrairah to be very impressive. The author clearly had a vivid imagination to create so much of the rabbits culture and history. But I think this book was worth reading as it's really a story about survival, leadership, and human nature. ...more

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Aug 12, 2009 Eric rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: classic, audiobooks, fantasy

This is one of the greatest stories I've ever read (listened to, to be specific). And I almost never gave it a chance, because how interesting could a novel about rabbits possibly be? I implore you not to let that deter you, as this is no Peter Cottontail story, it is The Lord of the Rings with leporidae.

I cared more about the rabbits in this story than almost every human character from everything else I've ever read, a hell of a trick for the author to pull off, and Bigwig has hopped his way t ...more

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Jul 08, 2008 Jenny (Reading Envy) rated it it was ok

Shelves: sword-and-laser, sci-fi-fantasy, read2008, ya

"You know how you let yourself think that everything will be all right if you can only get to a certain place or do a certain thing. But when you get there you find it's not that simple." ...more

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Jul 27, 2008 Jlawrence rated it really liked it

A damn fine tale. Having just finished it, now I really want to re-watch the animated film based on it (which is, it turns out, very faithful to the book).

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