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Summary: One of the Top Adventure Novels of All Time
Review: This story ranks right up there with, 'The Lord of the Rings', 'The Wizard of Oz', and "The Last of the Mohicans" as one of the best adventure novels I've ever read. To be honest, when I first heard it was a story about a bunch of rabbits I wasn't very optimistic that it could have anywhere near as much action in it as it did. I was pleasantly surprised however to see that I was wrong in this regard. The main character is a buck named Hazel (not exactly the name I would have picked for a main character) who leads by utilizing the best assets of the other rabbits around him, each of which has his own special attribute. (They are either a good fighter, runner, storyteller, fortuneteller, tracker, builder, or has the ability to cheer everyone up around them with a good joke.) Due to a premonition that one of the rabbits received (Fiver), Hazel leads a group of rabbits to find a new burrow before impending doom falls upon the warren they lived in. On the way they have to avert many dangers and overcome several difficulties. At one point they find a burrow of rabbits who look in excellent health, but they have some dark hidden secret which they are not sharing. It reminds me of a scene out of H.G. Wells' 'The Time Machine' when the main character travels into the future to finds people being treated like cattle. Richard Adams does an excellent job maintaining all of the rabbits nuances while at the same time giving them additional human attributes. They behave in military fashion, have a type of religion, create art, play games, make up poems, and tell stories. (I especially loved the stories of El-ahrairah who is a very clever rabbit much like Brair-rabbit.) Some of the rabbits in this book have tried to better themselves. In some instances this is shown as a good thing, and in others it is quite harmful. This is done similar to how Mary Shelly in her novel 'Frankenstein' showed the effects of what happens when man tries to act like God. General Woundwort who is the villain is shown in both regards. His warren is prosperous and safe, but he eventually turns into a tyrant. He also has the strength to take on bigger animals than himself which is an unnatural trait for a rabbit. Overall I'd say this book was excellent, and I think it deserves to be listed as one of the best novels of all time.
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Summary: Deserves more stars
Review: ...This is my favorite book in the whole universe, and loved it with every fiber of my being. I can't imagine hating it, and I can't imagine what my life was like before WD.
Richard Adams is a wonderful author, and writes with such detail that you can almost feel the rain on your skin.
The plot is... beautiful. Nothing can top it.
I would advise every avid reader of the world to read this, and its sequel, which, though less wonderful than its original, is still extremely good.
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Summary: enough with the bunnies
Review: I had heard great things about this book, but as much as I wanted to enjoy it I was bored to tears. The endless descriptions of plants I don't care about, the repetitiveness of "oh, another threat to the rabbits, I wonder if they will be okay or not"... it all got to me within the first 100 pages. The reviewer who said he lost his copy of the book can have mine (no really, take it, please!).
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Summary: talking rabbits
Review: you may be thrown off by the talking rabbits but this is one of the best books i recently read it is excitng and you really care waht happing to these rabbits.
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Summary: Timeless Classic
Review: I first read the book when I was 11 years old. I am now 34 and have read it for the sixth time. it left such an impression that I look foward to passing it on to my children.
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Summary: The view of Watership Down from a child
Review: In third grade I read Watership Down and I found it most interesting book I have read(and I still find it that way). It seems in other books I have found that the auther can try to put to much action in only several chapters. The fact that Watership Down had stories based upon the rabbits belief only (some times) proved to stall the stories, on the other hand I found that the stories were an ingenius way to stop oneself from putting in to much acton. Therefore I will recomend Watership Down to readers ages 13 and up (unless of course you are a highly advanced reader and have found books of your age leval and up to 3 years above your age leval an insult to you. This has happened many times to myself).
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Summary: A New Year's Ritual
Review: Watership Down is my favorite book of all time. That's all there is to it. I've read it at least once a year since I was nine... it's almost a New Year ritual. The thing is... it follows all the natural rules of rabbithood, but at the same time each character has a distinct personality, each one is easy to identify with. It's a bit like Brian Jaques' Redwall... but with a more realistic(and often more adult)approach. The myths told by the rabbits are as entertaining as the story itself, and you find the characters resemble humans you know. Allegorical? You can see it that way if you want. It's also a wonderful story in its own right.
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Summary: My favorite Book of all time
Review: all i am gonna say, is that this book is better then all those girl books like, the high school boys, and welcome to jr. high. its about animals, which i love, and about how they explore and live together to survive. I could easily distingiush the character's traits, like smart blackberry and scardey-cat pipkin. my favorite character was bigwig because he is so brave and strong. I'd reccomend this book to anyone who enjoys reading as it got me hooked on reading. ^-^
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Summary: My favorite book
Review: Watership Down is by far my favorite book. I am reading it again for about the 10th time, and over the years, my love of it has grown and grown. The first time I read it, back in 5th grade, it was an easy to read and easy to follow book that was a great story for a young girl on a rabbit farm. Over the years, each time I pick it up, it becomes more to me. I discover something I hadn't the last time I read it, or a passage "speaks" to me in a new way. This books speaks to so many levels of society, of power, of life for so many species. I tell everyone I know that this is a book they should read, I don't know how you couldn't love it. I love all of Richard Adams' books, I think he is a fantastic writer, but this is by far his best.
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Summary: We Need More Bunnies!
Review: Watership Down is one of those delightful books that I love to re-read when I little down--a little funky. I know it will pick me up and brighten this somewhat dismal world that sometimes comes down the road. Watership Down is the allegorical story of a warren of rabbits who have to flee because their country domain is being destroyed by modern man and technology. It is the story of Hazel, Bigwig, Fiver, and the rest of their friends and family as they try to find a new living space in this sometimes cruel world. They have their own bunny language, their own epic heroes, and their own lives which every reader can equate to his or her own self. I thought this is one of Adam's best works, and I found in it much suspense as the rabbits make their way across the English countryside with just enough pauses for me to catch my breath and continue on. After all, these are rabbits. In this sometimes cold and callous world, we need more bunnies.
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