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Summary: skip it if u can!!
Review: 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 boring in my life! And one that loves to read..I couldn't believe what I was reading...When he's trying to explain how Fiver is scared in like 5 pages of details...no wonder i was getting more sleep lately ;) he could've easily cut the book half,if he didn't put so much detail into it... Maybe if I could actually not fall asleep after a page of reading I could describe 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)
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Summary: Just fantastic
Review: The writing is so beautiful and the story is just so gripping, it wont let go of you. Now I hate books, I don't liek readng them at all, you can see I only review music, but this is a must read for anyone, really, I didn't want to read it but somehow it's like after a couple of chapters you're in the black hole called watership down. Read fro yourself
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Summary: Watership Down
Review: Watership Down is probably my favorite book of all time. It's one of those remarkable books that manages to tie together the qualities that matter most to me. The plot is full of twists, the writing can't be beat, and the characters are incredibly believable. The rabbits are not so fictitious that they carry around swords and walk upright, but nor are they the boring, fluffy creatures one might imagine. They have a whole culture of their own, which includes Lord Frith (the sun) and a whole language called lapine (What? You thought rabbits were stupid? Silly you).
The story starts with Fiver, a small rabbit with special kind of gift, who warns them that they must escape, because some great evil is coming. He only convinces a few, and they set out, wandering and vulnerable, onto a course that includes fear, hate, and tenderness. They meet some pretty twisted rabbits (which give ME the chills), and plenty of elil (enemies). One of the funniest points is when they're finally settled, happy on a hillside after days of traveliing unprotected, and they realize there aren't any females. Obviously this is another problem that leads them into yet more adventurous acts.
While this book is wonderful, I've found that it's extremely difficult to convince someone to read a book, when you are forced to begin, "It's about rabbits...". After the first sentence, they become uninterested.
No really, listen! It's a GOOD book about rabbits...
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Summary: Watership Down
Review: I first read this book in 4th grade, and of all the stories i read back then, i remebered this most clearly. I even remebered how i came to lose my copy of it, and how annoyed i felt. I figured there had to be a reason for this, so i went looking for this in my skool library (im in 9th grade now). I realsied that i didnt know the name of the author, so i went to try to find this other book by Douglas Adams. I was surprised to find, right under Adams, Watership Down, the book i had been hoping to find. It was like God had told me to read it. Now that i have bored you with my random story, i will get on to my review: I realsied after i read it again how great this book is. It is so meaningful and great, and deeper than a simple adventure story. It cxan be a little slow at times, and the discriptions can be a little lengthy, but i have found that even the long descriptions are fascinating, and i didnt skip over them like i usually do with stories. I have read many reviews telling how this book is stupid because it is unrealistic, and how it is about talking rabbits. Or even how people loved this book because the rabbits seemed so human-like and told them about ourselves, and how they forgot the story was about rabbits at times. I loved this book because i believe opposite is true. The rabbit society is atonishingly realistic, especially in their reactions to humans and our society. The rabbits never acted in any way that you would not expect rabbits to act. Their language ability may have been above expected, but you can even sense their underlying naivety and ignorance. I loved how they could only count to four, and how everything above that they simply called "hriar" or "a thousand." Their culture is very realistic and intriguing because it is so unlike our own. Their glorification of the theif and trickery i found to be an interesting contrast to our society, where "honesty is the best policy." You really got a glimpse into not just another society, but a whole different species with a different outlook on life. Without this realism, the story would still have been great story, but empty of meaning or literary greatness. I have never ben able to convince my friends to read this book, because it is about rabbits. I believe that everyone should read it, merely because it's about rabbits.
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Summary: Best book I ever read
Review: The story unfolds in the british countryside, a prophetic rabit runt and his brother set out on a brave journey to escape the possible destruction of their warren bringing with them the few they can convince. They encounter other warrens and examine various real world government styles, notably a totalitarian one reminscent of mid twentieth century ones. The story is also about survival, trying as they do to set up their own waren lacking female rabits. Courage, loyalty, cleverness, friendship take them through this in an amazingly suspensful storyline. The backdrop is an invented vocabulary reminiscent of Tolkien's elvish and legends of an ancient rabit hero that inspire them, and amuse us. A masterpiece.
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Summary: For a book so highly esteemed, very boring
Review: I've been forced to read this book for English class. Honestly, I liked some of the characters and their development was good, but the plot of this book was horrible. It was so boring, especially hearing about how plants look in the moonlight or rabbits "passing hraka" (hraka in "lapine" - another annoying feature- means "droppings"). I found the "El-Arairah" stories that were completely irrelevant to the main characters interesting and exciting. However, almost the rest of the book was ridiculously boring. If you plan on reading it, read a page a day for the next year and a half, that's the only way to stomach it.
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Summary: Fantastic ideas, not perfect at conveying them
Review: Watership Down is beautifully written, and well planned, but Richard Adams could have benefitted from some editing. At times dry, it has enough action and pace in it to keep even the humblest readers satisfied. An ideal book for teenagers, it has remarkable messages about beig the underdog and rising to the top. Not perfectly expressed emotions, but Adams is very good at keeping what would otherwise be a boring book intriguing, twisted, and humorous. A good read, and not too deep. Good story line. Timeless.
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Summary: The Absolute Greatest
Review: I'll make this review really short and sweet. This book is the best book I've ever read. It totally tops "classics" like Catcher in the Rye or Oliver Twist, because this story has way more heart than those stories, and yet it's a compelling adventure, once you look past the fact that adams is talking about rabbits. Even though it's a long read, I promise that you'll be hooked.
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Summary: I read this book when I was 10 years old
Review: This is my most beloved book. I read this book when I was 10 years old in german language, the title is "Unten am Fluß". Now, some :) years lager, I have bought an english version and read it again. English is difficult for me, but this book is definitely the book I love best.
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Summary: Great book, little slow
Review: By the way I loved the book, and it is hard ot get me to give 5 stars. The book was very good and a wonderful what i like to call "beach book" and very entertaining. It grabs your emotions and takes them for a ride in the spell-binding book. However, it is a parts very slow, and i understand the reasoning behind it, so i can't complain much but some parts were a little dry, but i do belive that every person should read this book during you life
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