Watership Down

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Summary: Water ship down for english
Review: At first I wasn't to thrilled to have my English teacher "force" me to read this book. I mean look at it. It is about bunny rabits! How stupid! Not! This book changed my whole prespective on books. As soon as i started reading I couldn't put it down. It let me escape from my stress full life to a world full of bunny rabbits. It was like a dream. I was into it from the begining to the end. I cryed at the end. Now if you are thinking about reading this book don't wait stupid read it! Your missing out on one of the worlds greatest novels!

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Summary: Best book I've ever read!
Review: This is the best book I've ever read. It was so entertaining, I read it in two days!

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Summary: bunnies! .. yeah bunnies !
Review: although i did not find the book as embracing as many of the other reviewers, i did find it an excellent read. in my younger days i remember coming across the book and all of the fanfare that followed it. recently for what ever reason, i decided finally to read the book. i'll admit at my age, i was skeptical that i would enjoy a story about a bunch of bunnies gallivanting around! however about 30 pages into the book and i was completely engrossed.

i enjoyed several things about this book. 1. the author tried to maintain a legitimacy to the life and behavior of rabbits. 2. there are constant departures from the original story where rabbits tell fables of El-ahrairah, a rabbit folk hero. 3. a tightly wound story with an eloquent ending.

if you enjoyed The Hobbit you might enjoy this as well. Watership Downs, much in the same manner of The Hobbit, creates an alternate world to take readers to. one with it's own rules, diction and direction.

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Summary: This was a great book!
Review: This could possibly be my favorite book of all time. The characters in this were amazing and were portrayed as smart creatures, it being no fault of their own that they do not know certain things. The situations were almost humanlike, but it was better not about humans. Very good book, a must read. And when you have finished, you must read the sequal!

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Summary: worthless!
Review: Why would ANYONE like this distasteful piece of dreck? WAY, WAY, WAY, WAY, WAY, LESS EVERYONE ON EARTH! I JUST DON'T GET IT, CAN'T YOU PEOPLE SEE THAT THIS BOOK IS DUMB? Like my review? email me at [e-mail]

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Summary: Best book I have ever read!
Review: I have read many many other fiction books in my time, and this is most likely in second place of my top ten!

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Summary: This is one of my favorite books ever...
Review: I consider myself tardy in my responsibilities as an avid reader that I have only just read Watership Down at the age of 31. It's a book I've looked at over and over again through the years, and honestly thought that a novel about rabbits just couldn't be that engrossing. I was wrong, and I have suggested to all my reading friends who have also missed this treasure that they pick it up as soon as possible! It was delightful, and I find myself using it as a touchstone for any book I read now. My reading life can now be clearly identified into two separate periods...before Watership Down, and after Watership Down.

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Summary: Anybody would change forever after they've read this book!
Review: After I finished this book, I walked away from my kitchen table crying because it was so good, sad and amazing. If you haven't read this book yet, then get going! It's the best thing I've ever read, and I hope you feel the same way too. If anybody can walk away from this book unchanged, I don't know what else can make them feel something. I reccomend this book to anybody out there that knows how to read! But, I would be arrogant to say that I didn't find at least a few flaws. Mainly they were little things that I can't remember, so just read on yourself to find out the adventure that takes Hazel, Fiver, Bigwig and the rest so far from home.

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Summary: This book will stay with me for the rest of my life
Review: Watership Down is a masterpiece. I don't say that lightly, Adams put so much into this story (even the chapter titles are thought-provoking "Like Trees in November").

It is easy to dismiss this as a children's book about rabbits. It is about rabbits, but its not just for children. A great deal of thought and research went into this novel. The rabbits are seen as distinct individuals--whom we can relate to and share in their sorrows and triumphs. I cried. I got angry. I cheered for them. It is rare for a book to fully capture my emotions in that way.

The reader is immersed in their culture, motivations, and language. The folk tales which form the basis for their mythology and spirituality could stand on their own, as is the case with, "The Story of Rowsby Woof and the Fairy Wogdog".

The rabbits are presented with many obstacles, not the least of which, is one of the great unrecognized villans of literature, General Woundwort, leader of Efrafa.

This book works on so many levels. It would be a shame if you missed out because you thought it was just a children's book. This is a book suitable to be read and re-read throughout your life.

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Summary: This is a classic Epic Poem
Review: I understand that some may have difrent views on this book. Yet, all i hear is "it's bunnies, it has no action, the bunny talk is hard to understand, ad infinitum." We have dumed (if thats a word) down todays youth by only focasing on action and simple themes. This book works because its original. Lets count shall we? How many books have humans as the main charcters? Anyone? They were all great because they had action and simple words right? No. Lets face facts, this is a good book because it shows you things about human nature that you couldn't do with humans as the main characters.

This is a Epic Poem and Hazel is the hero. The stories within the stories also make it an Epic Poem, and it is the way the trials and conflicts are set up to show the diffrent types of personalities of the rabbits. To those who say its dull, read the beginig agin. As the story starts out it shows adversity from the very begining. Not just action but some politics as well. It has factions, cults, and even a mystic element because of Fiver. I wish that I had had this book in class. I would have loved to have talked about the ideas and themes with others. It's been years since I read it but I still think about it and try to tell everyone I know to read it. Don't hate it because there are no humans as the main characters.