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Summary: Very good book!
Review: This has to be easily the 2nd best book I have read in my life next to The Giver. When I looked at the cover I thought, 'Okay, talking rabbits. I can deal with this.' And did I! This is a great, must-read book! To all the 4th graders who said it 'sucked' and gave it a one, how about you actually read it instead looking at the back of it!
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Summary: A 10? Please Read My Reveiw!
Review: How can people rate this book a 10? It's about a group of rabbits that go on a journey to prevent themselves from an unknown tragedy in a warren that a small rabbit named Fiver had a premonition of. I mean it's a book about talking rabbits. I did enjoy the parts when they came across things during the journey, but I did not like the idea of rabbits as main characters. I am 14 and I don't think I'd waste my time reading this book again in ten years .
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Summary: How to begin...
Review: I remember, in fifth grade, having a wonderful teacher I respected. He recommended this book to me. I immeditatly ran to the library to check it out only to find that a friend of mine had it. I pestered her to finish so that I could read it. I loved it then. The only thing which I did not like at that time were the quotes at the beginning of the chapters. I was too young to understand their significance (especially the ones in French). That summer I went to visit my grandparents (who have a very extensive book collection). I put their copy of Watership down in my suitcase and read it at least once a year from then on. Now, eight years later, I have read that paperback copy to shreds. I received a first edition copy of it for Christmas, and I can honestly say there is nothing I would have rather gotten.
This book can speak to an individual on many levels. When I was in fifth grade it was a nice story. I didn't understand the significance of many things Adams used to illustrate his points. I enjoyed it for the plot, the action, the suspense, the characters. I still enjoy those elements, they are, in essence, the backbone of any novel. Every time I read this book I discover something new, it fleshes out. I see all the layers of my understanding and enjoyment underneath the new one. I can not look at this novel as a two-dimensional skeleton of a book. For me, it is very much a vitalic entity.
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Summary: now wait a second...
Review: It seems to me that some people have a major problem with this novel. Well, let me tell you this: whoever gives this novel a 1 ought to check their head for the other half of their brain. I certainly don't expect everyone to give it raving reviews, but it doesn't take a nerd to understand the underlying meaning of this story. Those cries of "Who wants to read about silly talking bunnies?" and "Ooo, who wants to read 400+ pages of 'Blackberry staking out a couple of females'?" are from people who either didn't read it or didn't try. This novel brought out a lot more than a novel focused solely on humans, because it IS about humans, on a whole new perspective. I find it amusing to see such dejecting reviews from a person who gets a kick out of reading about factories that churns out meat loaded with rat poison and the respective rats to the American public but has such a difficult time with a heartwarming novel with such powerful background and imagery, a novel with a stongly woven plot. A novel worth a second read.
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Summary: Excellent !! a book to keep for all time
Review: The rabbits search for a new home and happiness is an example of people in exile. When Hazel joins the Black Rabbits Owsla is in my opinion one of the most touching
moments in writing.
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Summary: Well worth reading
Review: The first time I started this book, I got bored after about the first two chapters. Then, about 3mths later, I decided to start the book again, but this time, only reading the last three chapters. Those three chapters were the most enthralling I have ever read, and because of those three chapters, I have read the book, this time from beginning to end, over and over again.
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Summary: Best damn novel you could ever have in your possession!
Review: Now, have you ever seen anyone so rabidly acclaim a book on these review pages as the readers below?? Except for a few junior high schoolers, this book is loved by so many. These rabbits seem so anthropomorphical (not sure that's a real word by the way !) that we can feel for their struggles and feel their joy. This is a tale about loyalty, liberty, hope, and survival. The themes are so strong here; these little bunnies make you want to laugh, cheer, cry, and shout for joy. These rabbits leave their home because of a grave danger, struggle through dangerous terrain, past wild animals, "hostile" groups of other rabbits, and even a slave/labor camp only to find themselves a home. All these guys want is a mate, a warm warren, and a few cowslips here and then. For a story about bunnies, it is one of the most human tales you could ever hope to read.
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Summary: really freakin' good
Review: Read it as a senior in my English class, and it really made me mad hearing classmates trash it like they did: "who cares about a bunch of talking bunnies?" I do. Like they dont REPRESENT anything, or something. Stupid people commenting on a book that they read because they are required to, never making an effort to enjoy it for the same reason. And these aren't third graders, either. These are people who will be doctors and lawyers and, well, probably cashiers at grocery stores all their lives. What kind of an author would write a book on one level, anyway? I mean- these people put it on the same level as "The Scarlet Letter" or something. Oh well...
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Summary: People who don't like it have mental instability
Review: I know that I already wrote a review, but it was mainly for the review contest. I felt that I needed to write something inresponse to the very few people who could stoop to write that it was poor. Anyone who does not read a whole book has no buisness reviewing or giving a critique on it. You cannot say that this book wasn't exciting considering that most of the time thier lives were in danger and that there was a huge batte filled with suspense. I honestly doubt that there is a giften and talented class out there that would have a hard time reading this book. Maybe it just isn't a very bright class. People that are intelligent understand the true ability of the write and excellent story plot. My father read this to me when I was in fifth grade and I was enchanted with it. I could not bare to put it down every night and I have read it many times since. This is the best book ever written for young and old. IT's a true classic.
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Summary: Touching story takes us into the minds of courageous rabbits
Review: Watership Down, by Richard Adams, is the best book I have ever read. It is a touching and suspenseful story that takes us into the minds and hearts of a warren of courageous rabbits fleeing their home. Although many people would think that this book would read like a fantastical fairy tale, it does not. Richard Adams simple, vivid, flowing writing forms a beautifuly woven tale of suspense and drama, terror and tragedy, love and joy. And despite the fact that the characters are animals, this author finds away to make them human and realistic, from the basic needs to their fated enemies. This story begins on a warm summer eve while the Sandleford warren is at silflay(grazing). It there goes to the bond and trust between two brothers, Hazel and Fiver, that lead them to round up as many rabbits as possible in order to flee their home in the face of danger. The story then takes you through the hills and forests and across the rivers on the course of their flight. The tale tells of their adventures and troubles that do not end even at the sight of their new home. From their new warren they must search and eventually battle a group of troubled and warlike rabbits in order to survive. This story takes you beyond the bounds of traditional imagination, into a world filled with understanding and balance with nature. It creates friendships and troubles for creatures that have so often been ignored in society. This classic has paved the way for many more that follow in it's wake. By all right this book should belong to everyone, young and old, and treasured as a classic to love and hold and to read over and over again. I present to you Watership Down, the best book ever written.
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