Watership Down
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Watership Down
Richard Adams
Literature
Aug 27, 2018
One of the most phenomenal international bestsellers of the 1970s, Watership Down is an immersive saga that traverses great themes and feelings—courage, frailty, community, ecology, responsibility, friendship, love—while holding readers on the edge of their metaphorical seats. And oh, yes—it’s a 500-page novel about rabbits. The novel relates the exploits of a small band of unsure but intrepid rabbits who, under threat from encroaching human development, leave their familiar warren and set out across the English Downs in search of a new home. The characters of the rabbit protagonists are convincingly drawn, and the sweep of the action that carries them through encounters with predators, unfriendly terrain, and bad weather—to say nothing of fear, fatigue, despair, and other dangerous states of body and mind—is irresistible.
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Oct 28, 2018
This book made me sob, ugly cry and everything inbetween. I think teenagers should be forced to read it because it develops compassion.
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Oct 28, 2018
This is a truely original book, and beautifully written.
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Oct 28, 2018
Engrossing human-animal story, akin to Charlotte's Web and Animal Farm
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Oct 30, 2018
It has been over thirty years since I read Watership Down... and high time I re-read it. As another poster said, it teChes kindness and compassion. Plus it has given me one if my favorite words: tharn. Kind of like Grok. Both great words that embody so much.
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Nov 21, 2018
I loved this book. It's original, funny, and heartbreaking.
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Jan 1, 2019
This was a set book for English at school and suffered the fate of being sliced up and analysed, so that it lost its life.
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Jan 10, 2019
since I first read this when I was much younger, I remember never having thought about life from another creature's perspective in the past. Of course there are so many deep levels to this wondrous book, but I will never forget my first exposure to it.
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Jan 13, 2019
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I loved it and it is also my daughter’s favorite book.
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Jan 29, 2019
Read it, loved it.
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Feb 4, 2019
Although I hate rabbits (they are considered vermin in Australia and have done massive damage to the environment), the story is gripping and entertaining.
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Feb 11, 2019
Watership Down has been a favorite of mine since my Dad read it aloud to me when I was perhaps 5 or 6. It stands up to multiple readings!
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Feb 22, 2019
A book that I’ll never forget.
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Mar 13, 2019
Creates a plausible and exciting world, complete with its own mythology, tucked into a corner of our world.
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Mar 26, 2019
Because my mother has been a reading teacher since my brother and I were born, I can't remember a time when I wasn't interested in reading. I would be surprised if we each weren't read to within the first 48 hours of being born. This book means a lot to me because my mother didn't actually recommend this book, but my dad. This was my dad's favorite book, so I read it fairly young. I think this was the first book that I fell in love with.
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Mar 26, 2019
Not really a kid's book
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Mar 27, 2019
A tremendous adventure story with surprising horror, heart, and depth inside.
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Mar 28, 2019
Good
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Apr 7, 2019
liked the story
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Apr 27, 2019
Not just a book about rabbits
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May 3, 2019
The first book I ever read from the point of view of animals. Real animals with real world issues, as opposed to childhood stories. I guess I really didn’t think it could be done, and the result fascinated me!
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May 8, 2019
Absolutely love this book, well worth the read
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While I certainly don't regret reading it, I would never read it again. Too dark.
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May 25, 2019
An amazing read.
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Jun 2, 2019
My son loves this story and it has archetypal characters.
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Jun 10, 2019
I read this as a boy and it has somehow stayed with me - particularly the atmosphere of the book.
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Jul 9, 2019
Was able to travel to the exact meadow in England where Watership Down stemmed from (It is right near Highclere Castle of Downton Abbey fame.) It was magical to imagine talking rabbits.
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Jul 13, 2019
Touching but heartbreaking
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Jul 20, 2019
This really was thoroughly engaging and I still think of cars rushing by as “hroodoodoos!
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Sep 24, 2019
Anthropomorphism done right.
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Oct 2, 2019
In some ways, it's easy to forget that this is a book about rabbits. At the same time, the characters think and act so much like rabbits that it goes far beyond most anthropomorphized stories in bringing the animals to life as animals.
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Oct 8, 2019
Another excellent book. If you get a chance listen to Ralph Cosham's audio - it is superb!
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Dec 27, 2019
Yay rabbits
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I read this around middle school. It was transforming in many ways.
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Apr 4, 2020
It takes you in to this world
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Apr 5, 2020
IT IS A MAJESTIC EPIC. THAT AN EPIC COULD BE WRITTEN WITH RABBIT PROTAGONISTS AND A GEOGRAPHIC AREA OF ONLY A FEW MILES MAKES THIS A TOWERING WORK OF THE IMAGINATION. TRANSFORMING RABBITS INTO A DEVELOPED CULTURE CHANGES THE WAY ALL RABBIT TALES AND EVEN ALL BEAST FABLES SHOULD BE UNDERSTOOD.
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May 23, 2020
Too good to miss.
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Jun 4, 2020
A classic!
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Oct 28, 2020
An unforgettable story written for children but enjoyed by all
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Jan 14, 2021
Interesting all the way through.
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This is an interesting take on society.
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Dec 14, 2021
One taps Agree instantly, responding as the much younger person who read this a lifetime ago and loved it for the narrative, the story of Hazel and the rabbits. Now as an older and (ahem) more sophisticated reader and one more sensitive and aware of animals, forests and all those others we share Earth with I recommend this as a way to remind us that nothing is here for us. Animals and trees and the mouse in the cupboard go about their independent business following their own drives. Granted, rabbit life might not be quite as depicted in Watership (or is it?), but reading it about it we can begin to comprehend--I hope-- that while all things on the planet are influenced by humans (and most often negatively) the natural world and its citizens both animal and vegetable are not there as obstacles, tools or resources for we allegedly big-brained thugs to use, abuse, squander and devastate as we will.
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Mar 12, 2022
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Apr 12, 2022
We can learn a lot from rabbits.
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Jun 9, 2022
The balancing act of getting us in the head of the rabbits while keeping them still very rabbitish is impressive
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Jun 13, 2022
Best read aloud to children. Or adults,
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Aug 2, 2022
The Tale of the Fairy Wogdog is worth the price of admission, a delightful easter egg in the midst of a delightful rabbit adventure/social commentary. Yes, it is that weird and wonderful!
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Sep 21, 2022
A fantastic adventure!
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Feb 19, 2023
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Jun 5, 2023
Classic fantasy
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Dec 31, 2023
Compelling then. Not sure about now.
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Jan 27
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