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For many years I wrongly dismissed, ”Watership Down”, as a kid’s book and so never found space for it on my TBR pile. This year is the 50th anniversary of the book’s publication which prompted me to give it a second chance. I’m so glad that I did since it is one of the best books that I’ve read this year. The lapine dictator General Woundwort is now one of my all time favourite fictional villains.
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 was pretty sure I reviewed this, but my review seems to have been vaporized. I read this book when I was 12 and my family life was in upheaval. I loved it for its ability to whisk me away from the real world and I felt a real sympathy for the rabbits having to leave their beloved home and go on a not-always-pleasant search for a new one. Please note that there is a glossary of the rabbit "language" in the back! Due to my age, I'd never heard of such a thing in a novel and I spent waaayy too mu
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Read this book like five times when I was a kid...just reread it and it is as good as I remember!
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