Tales from Watership Down
by Richard Adams
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Read in April, 2006
This is Adams return to the magical world of Watership Down and the exciting tales of the struggle of a group of clever rabbits making a home. While the characters are all back from the first novel, Adams disappoints in this novel by filling the first book completely with tales of El-ahrairah, the folk hero of all rabbits. These stories are mildly entertaining in themselves, but unlike the first book where they helped to explain the culture he was portraying or even use such stories to critici...more
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Read in December, 2006
After finishing Watership Down, I was on a rabbit frenzy, and mentioned my love to my aunt at Christmas. She just happened to have the sequel on her shelf, and let me borrow it! What joy! This book is a collection of short stories that builds on the charecters and mythology of Watership Down, and is a must read if you enjoyed the first book. Again, it's like we're getting a glimpse of a world that exists below human radar, and it's very convincing. If, like me, you're weren't ready when Watershi...more
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Read in February, 2003
A collection of short stories, some of which are "fables" that the rabbits tell each other and the remainder are about their past or current experiences.
A light, enjoyable read - but not something that really stands on its own. One of the El-ahrairah stories is overly-PC (how Man has destroyed so many species and so much land) and if I recall correctly, there were some character inconsistencies with the original book. In fact, I kind of wish I'd re-read Watership Down before...more
A light, enjoyable read - but not something that really stands on its own. One of the El-ahrairah stories is overly-PC (how Man has destroyed so many species and so much land) and if I recall correctly, there were some character inconsistencies with the original book. In fact, I kind of wish I'd re-read Watership Down before...more
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Read in September, 2005
A book about rabbits, told from the perspective of rabbits (seriously, they have a lapine glossary in the back to help translate). It took me about 100 pages to get into it, due to the fact that so many rabbits are introduced early on(and because it takes a while to remember the language), but then it became an obsessive read.
Some would call it a Communist rag. I thought it was fun and showed some of the problems with different societies/political structures.
Some would call it a Communist rag. I thought it was fun and showed some of the problems with different societies/political structures.
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Read in March, 2008
Although it's supposed to be the sequel to Watership Down, it's really just a book of short stories related to it. Whereas the stories of El-ahrairah in Watership Down reflected the lives of the warren, in this book they were just stand-alone stories that lost the effect they had when they were part of the larger story.
It's worth reading, but only if you loved Watership Down and are obsessed with reading complete series no matter what.
It's worth reading, but only if you loved Watership Down and are obsessed with reading complete series no matter what.
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Read in January, 2008
A loosely connected collection of short stories that is largely based around many supporting characters in Watership Down. I found the first two parts of the book to be a bit tiresome and even childish sometimes. However, the third part which consisted of new stories of familiar characters was at times brilliant, uplifting and also heart wrenching. Good but not great by any means, and a must for fans of the original.
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Too little, too late. I really enjoyed the internal mythology of Watership Down, but Adams decided to go small-concept with it here. As much as I adore the simplicity and readability of the orginal, I always thought it would have been a more interesting to read the story of Efrafa or the original home warren, and thereby create a broader, story-current mythology.
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When I first read this I thought it was just a nice little story about rabbits. Little did I realize that when I became more mature it would be an allegory of different types of governments. It's still a nice story about rabbits too !
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I felt that this book fell very short of the first book. I was excited when I heard that there was another book in the series but this book did not live up to the expectations that I had for it. I did like how Richard Adams took the developed the rabbits "fairy tales" and made them into stories but I was hoping for more.
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If you liked the theology and fables presented in the first book then you will love this book. I was looking for more of the first book so I was a bit disappointed to find what amounted to a book of short stories. The stories are entertaining and do fall in with the first book though.
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A fun supplement to Watership Down; I particularly appreciate the way the anthological format adds to Adams' (already impressive) world-building, his sprawling sense of place. But it definitely is just a supplement, so read the novel first.
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This book was a whirlwind of humor, creepiness, suspense, and all other emotions you feel when reading a book. Several short stories comprise of several different genres. The one where the rabbits get chased by a "thing" in a labyrinth is so creepy.
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Read in July, 2008
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Unfortunately disappointing. The myths were really interesting, but the second section was rather boring and the tales concerning Hazel and his rabbits were really run-of-the-mill. Not much compared to the original.
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Read in January, 2007
Not nearly as good as the first book. I found myself hurrying through the first sections to get to the stories about the characters from the first book. But still recommend it for fans of Watership Down.
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I read this with my boys (13 and 16) who are big fans of Watership Down, we thought it was very intresting and fun to read and it had some good morals in it. I wish there were more watership down books.
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Read in June, 1997
This book further went into the mythos of rabbit culture and gave a lot of back stories to their mythical hero who's name escapes me at the moment. A great read for a sunny day in the park.
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How did this happen? I think Richard Adams gave permission to a sixth grade English class to write their own sequel to Watership Down. There's just no way this is from the same author.
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I did enjoy this book, but it was just too disjointed and kind of 'fanficcy'. I guess as much as I wanted more than the first book provided, it was good in and of itself.
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A very long, descriptive story about a group of bunnies and their adventures and deaths. Some parts can be very boring, but overall this is a very exhilerating book!
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Read in January, 1998
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Fans of Watership Down
Sure, Richard Adams probably put this together to make a quick buck, but it was nice to get some new stories about some of my all-time favorite literary characters.
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