Watership Down - Richard Adams

...hands with the Russian president. Watership Down is seemingly set in the English countryside, told in third person omniscient as Adams relates the thrilling adventures of a band of determined, likable and humanized rabbits in a classic good versus evil tale that reveals man’s innate goodness as well as terrible inhumanity. Picture Orwell’s Animal Farm crossed with The Lord of the Rings if you can. The question remains: is it for children, adults ...
...you may be thinking that Watership Down doesn’t sound very amusing, to kids or adults, as in keeping your attention, and I’m not going to completely disagree with you. The visionary got on my nerves like he does on his friends’. He could really freak out kids as well, but fortunately they find out through a surviving rabbit that their old warren has been demolished, another vision comes true and they realize the rabbit can guide them to safety. Another ...

jankperegrine 20.12.2004 · Read full review
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...far, so ordinary - but Watership Down is far from being an ordinary book. Adams' great achievement is that he manages to create rabbit characters which are both athropomorphised (in that they can speak - normally in English, though fragments of their "Lapine" language are dotted about the pages) and realistic. By "realistic", I mean that they, for the most part, follow the behavioural patterns of real rabbits in such things as feeding and fighting. ...
...excitement, humour, terror, joy, sadness... in fact, the whole range of human emotion has been successfully instilled into a group of rabbits, with the result that the book is at times intensely moving. And that, I feel, is Watership Down's great triumph. ========================================== Penguin, 1974. ISBN: 0-1403-0601-3. £5.99. ========================================== ...

davidbuttery 20.02.2001 · Read full review
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...are many memorable characters in Watership Down, but perhaps the most memorable is General Woundwart. Learning what he is if you've never come across him before will probably lead you to echo the incredulity of those who first heard details of the soon-to-be-incredibly-successful book in which he appears. This is because General Woundwort is not of the genus Homo, but of the genus Oryctolagus. In other words, he's not a man, he's a rabbit. Which ...
...books about, among many other things, talking owls and badgers. I haven't read any of the later entries in the genre Adams founded, and I haven't wanted to, because if any of them come even close to matching the invention and realism of Watership Down I would be very surprised. ...

rose_of_sharon 14.08.2001 · Read full review
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Watership Down is an extraordinary story that illustrates how companionship and adventure can change lives. The story is base around a group of rabbits that have left their warren to find a new one that is safer. That is their mission, but natural predators and traps beset their journey. Richard Adams' "Watership Down" is a brilliant book of epic proportions. One of the rabbits, Fiver, who appears to be clairvoyant, has a vision of a field of blood ...
...in the form of a land development team at the hands of men, whom the rabbits think, "Will never be happy until they've ruined the Earth." The book presents a tale that is set in our world, but told from the point of view of the rabbits, complete with a creation myth and animal heritage original to themselves. Throughout the story, we hear the rabbits' own tales about their creator and El-ahrairah, a rabbit of myth and legend. El-ahrairah is a rabbit ...

jennyflower85 17.03.2006 (29.03.2006) · Read full review
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One of the few books & films to ever move me to tears every time I read it or see it again. Not your soppy look at rabbit life through a child's eyes but the often sadly brutal reality of life for wild rabbits out there in the countryside. A significant point for me is the effect that we humans have, by the things we do with out thought of there effect, on the wildlife of a country. For me another sad point was the way farmers were innocently ...

FriendlyLynn 03.10.2005 · Read full review
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Quite a good book and very suitable for the audience. Richard Down is excellent in providing a good read for readers of all ages and genders. This book keeps the reader entertained and is has a very good story line to it. The characters are friendly and easy to relate to the the book as a whole is very easy to read. All these factors help this book be passed down to generations. I recommend this book to any one that likes easy going type of books ...

niksniksniks 09.05.2007 · Read full review
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I remember reading this book as a kid and then I re-read it as an adult after seeing the animation on telly. I really enjoyed this bbok from the moment that Fiver 'feels' that there is something wrong with their home to the point of the Black Rabbit coming to claim him. I cannot believe that a writer, rather bravely, wrote a book about the life and times of rabbits, but it worked. They have the feelings and thoughts of humans in that situation. In ...
...made me cry, sometimes with laughter but mainly with sadness. All in all you would think it a rather depressing book about death, loss and searching for a new home but it turns into a great saga. The mishaps of the rabbits along the way only make their plight seem all the more human as these refugees try and find where it is that Fiver deems fit for their new home. Give the book a go but avoid the book 'Plague Dogs'. It's just not as good, plus ...

charlottef 16.06.2005 · Read full review
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...lot of you know what Watership Down is about, either from watching the animation or hearing from others, but I don't think you can fully appreciate Richard Adams' story until you read all 496 pages. It tells the tale of Fiver and his brother Hazel leaving their lifetime warren because Fiver senses a "bad danger" on the way. Follow their journey along with the other rabbits that dared to leave their warren and their owsla (the equivalent of rabbit ...

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