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Watership Down (Watership Down, #1)

Richard Adams

Why we're reading this: The characters in this book are largely rabbits, thus it counts as a book with non-human characters.
[close] The characters in this book are largely rabbits, thus it counts as a book with non-human characters.

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Oct 28, 2017 Chris rated it it was amazing

Shelves: audiobook, united-kingdom, classics, animals

This is probably the book that has been on my TBR shelf the longest - probably a good 30 years or more. Maybe that's because I generally don't like anthropomorphism, but I'm glad to say this is a delightful exception.
I totally bought into the world of Hazel and Fiver. And when I thought of them, I thought of them as rabbits, not some sort of human/rabbit. Adams does such an amazing job of building this universe from a rabbit's perspective. I loved their adventures, escaping almost certain death ...more

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Dec 21, 2013 Desertisland added it

It's been a long time since I read this--maybe around time I'd read LAST UNICORN by Peter Beagle (possibly when those were new books). Had been thinking of reading again (or at least refreshing my memory by finding some critical commentary). I wonder if has any resemblance to children's classic, RABBIT HILL?

I also have faint memory of a fantasy series I read, lead to by covers done by a Japanese woman artist whose name currently escapes me (she doesn't like to be refered to as a Japanese artist, ...more

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