Watership Down: A Novel
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- ISBN13: 9780743277709
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A phenomenal worldwide bestseller for over thirty years, Richard Adams’s Watership Down is a timeless classic and one of the most beloved novels of all time. Set in England’s Downs, a once idyllic rural landscape, this stirring tale of adventure, courage and survival follows a band of very special creatures on their flight from the intrusion of man and the certain destruction of their home. Led by a stouthearted pair of brothers, they journey into the world from their native Sandleford Warren through the upsetting trials posed by predators and adversaries, to a mysterious promised land and a more perfect society.Amazon.com Review
Watership Down has been a staple of high-school English classes for years. Despite the fact that it’s regularly a hard sell at first (what teenager wouldn’t cringe at the thought of 400-plus pages of talking rabbits?), Richard Adams’s bunny-centric epic rarely fails to win the like and respect of anyone who reads it, regardless of age. Like most fantastic novels, Watership Down is a rich tale that can be read (and reread) on many different levels. The book is regularly praised as an allegory, with its analogs between human and rabbit culture (a fact sometimes used to goad skeptical teens, who resent the challenge that they won’t “get” it, into reading it), but it’s equally worthy as just a corking excellent adventure.
The tale follows a warren of Berkshire rabbits fleeing the destruction of their home by a land developer. As they search for a safe haven, skirting danger at every turn, we become acquainted with the band and its compelling culture and mythos. Adams has crafted a touching, involving world in the dirt and scrub of the English countryside, perfect with its own folk history and language (the book comes with a “lapine” glossary, a guide to rabbitese). As much about freedom, ethics, and human scenery as it is about a bunch of bunnies looking for a warm hidey-hole and some mates, Watership Down will continue to make the transition from classroom desk to bedside table for many generations to come. –Paul Hughes
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400 pages of talking rabbits………who run into the same problems over and over and over and over again.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
This is the worst book I have ever tried to read in my entire life. I could barely get past the first 100 pages. If you are thinking about reading it-don’t. Despite critic’s ranting about how fantastic this book is suppose to be, I reflect if you read it, you will find your opinion to be contradictory to these statements. It should be taken off all required reading lists. It is pure torture to suffer, and is a poor excuse for a piece of literature.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
This book was sooo dull! It was about talking rabbits… Yeah sure the rabbits represent people but it is still very very dull!
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Amazon.com should have a -10 star review, cause this book would get it! Its the worst book ever. 470 some pages of PURE …! The leader goes into way to much detail. 3 chapters dedicated to walking and “silfaying”(eating) Its horrible. The battles are over way too fleeting. I was pleased to find the main rabbit get SHOT. And i was said to find he was still ALIVE! Luckily he dies at the end.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Everyone says how this book is wonderful and has a greater meaning and the descriptions are wonderful blah blah blah..I had to read this book in english class and write reviews on it and answer questions I have never read anything more dull in my life! And one that likes to read..I couldn’t judge what I was reading…When he’s trying to clarify how Fiver is frightened in like 5 pages of details…no marvel i was getting more sleep lately
he could’ve easily cut the book half,if he didn’t place so much detail into it… Maybe if I could really not fall asleep after a page of reading I could clarify how utterly flat and repetitive this book is. I hope you never have to go through reading this book….
P.S. I recommend you to read Confessions of A Shopaholic (it’s hilarious)
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5