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Hooray! Five-star masterpiece! I loved Watership Down. I had a hard time putting it down when I had to stop reading at lunch hour or at night. I guess I had reservations all these years about reading the book about talking rabbits but the story was so engrossing and the characters were so interesting that it hooked me in right away. I liked the intermittent fables about El-ahrairah, it allowed one to take a breath and lower the heart rate after reading about the furious action or stress that rab
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I just couldn't get into this novel. Even though it was about the adventurous lives of a group of rabbits, I felt like the plot line was very slow. In between the storyline, the rabbits would stop to tell their own stories, which slowed things down even more. Parts of it were interesting and exciting, but the rest....meh. I'm afraid I just wasn't feeling this one.
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