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  • A vivid tale of rabbits finding a new life for themselves.

  • I had not read this book in school - although I know many who did - so I was pleasantly surprised at how well it was written, and even enjoyable for someone twice as old as a high schooler.

    There are segments of "over-wording," where the details are piled on and described for pages at a time ... Continue

    I had not read this book in school - although I know many who did - so I was pleasantly surprised at how well it was written, and even enjoyable for someone twice as old as a high schooler.

    There are segments of "over-wording," where the details are piled on and described for pages at a time, but overall the story flows very well. At times you are in the rabbits' world, sensing their fear and excitement as though you were there.

    A long read, but well worth the effort in the end.

    

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• ― JaxSean said on Oct 31, 2007 about the Paperback edition| Add your feedback

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  • Watership Down

  • Unbelievable! You keep forgetting the main characters are rabbits, even though the author keeps reminding us by alluding to their habits and behaviors. One of my all-time favorites!

    

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  • A birthday gift from my Dad on my 10th birthday. An inscription from Wallace Stevens's "A Rabbit As King of the Ghosts":[return] [return] The difficulty to think at the end of the day,[return] When the shapeless shadow covers the sun[return] And nothing is left except light on your fur-- ... Continue

    A birthday gift from my Dad on my 10th birthday. An inscription from Wallace Stevens's "A Rabbit As King of the Ghosts":[return] [return] The difficulty to think at the end of the day,[return] When the shapeless shadow covers the sun[return] And nothing is left except light on your fur--[return] .....[return] And to feel that the light is a rabbit-light,[return] In which everything is meant for you[return] And nothing need be explained...

    

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  • All I can say is....this sure as hell isn't a book about bunnies!

    

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• ― Camille said on Apr 11, 2007 | Add your feedback

One of the most beloved novels of our time, Richard Adams's Watership Down takes us to a world we have never truly seen: to the remarkable life that teems in the fields, forests and riverbanks far beyond our cities and towns. It is a powerful saga of courage, leadership and survival; an epic tale of a hardy band of adventurers forced to flee the destruction of their fragile community...and their trials and triumphs in the face of extraordinary adversity as they pursue a glorious dream called "home."

Watership Down is a remarkable tale of exile and survival, of heroism and leadership...the epic novel of a group of adventurers who desert their doomed city, and venture forth against all odds on a quest for a new home, a sturdier future,

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