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Watership Down: A Novel
 

Watership Down: A Novel

by Richard Adams

Watership Down has been a staple of high-school English classes for years. Despite the fact that it's often a hard sell at first (what teenager wouldn't cringe at the thought of 400-plus pages of talking rabbits?), Richard Adams's bunny-centric epic rarely fails to win the love and respect of anyone who reads it, regardless of age. Like most great novels, Watership Down is a rich story ... (read more)

Top tags: fiction,  fantasy,  classic,  animals,  rabbits (all tags)

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Amazon Reviews (5)
 

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Liked It

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James M
  • Rated 5 stars

“As a person who doesn't enjoy the Fantasy genre (or the Young Adult one), I would probably never have picked up this book on my own. As it happened, though, I was cooped up in an apartment in the middle of nowhere in a foreign country and a woman lent me all of the English-language books she owned. This was one of them.

I absolutely adored this book. Adams creates an entire mythology for these rabbits, a culture with folkways and history; the panic and determination which take...”

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Didn’t Like It

Morgan the Morbid
  • Rated 1 stars

“I was forced to read this in the seventh grade. I would never read it on my own, and, I hated it. I couldn't get into it. There was just something about it that was not appealing to me, and I am infinitely glad that I never finished it.”

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Community:
  • Rated 4.265351 stars
Amazon:
  • Rated 4.535714 stars
  

Newest Comments

  • Viva la Napalm

    viva la napalm said:

    “I really liked the book, when I first read it. Its was a little disturbing all the same.
    And when I saw the movie it was the same feeling, only to see some of the things acted out made it a little more "creepy" in a way. When I was a kid and read the book, all I thought was it was a book about rabbits and when I got older and read it again I saw what things really meant and a lot of the theme's. Its a book I really love.”

    posted 2 weeks ago
  • Bobby S

    bobby s said:

    “Well for those of you who enjoy it,either old readers or new.I have a new group started up..Watership Down for All''”

    posted 2 weeks ago
  • A sharp

    a sharp said:

    “I read this book in eighth grade for a book report, and will never forget the experience. Not only could I not put it down, it was the first novel I ever read to completely move me to tears... I loved and will ALWAYS love this book.”

    posted Monday, July 21 2008
  • FU MANCHU

    fu manchu said:

    “all sorts of rabbits in this book”

    posted Friday, July 18 2008
  • Kylee

    kylee said:

    “I cannot get into this book. I am on the 12th chapter and still find it dull and am unmotivated to read on.
    Does the story ever get more intense or interesting???”

    posted Saturday, July 12 2008 ( | view 3 replies )
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