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Watership Down
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#32 on NPR's Top 100 SF/F novels of all time (2011 poll) http://www.npr.org/201…more

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Jason Koivu
Aug 27, 2011 rated it it was amazing
Shelves: fantasy, fiction
REVISION:

DAMN YOU, 2016, STOP THE MADNESS!!!

https://watership-down.com/2016/12/27...


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ORIGINAL:

DAMN YOU, WATERSHIP DOWN, STOP MAKING ME CRY!!!

When I was in school, the teachers played the movie version (the one with Art Garfunkel songs, Zero Mostel as the bird, and a bevy of well-respected English actors providing voice-overs) of this epic drama of courageous rabbits and us kids just bawled. The sadness, she was too much!

It's been 30, maybe 35 years on since then and I figured, despite
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In grateful memory: Richard George Adams (9 May 1920 – 24 December 2016), as well as Ralph Cosham (25 February 1936 – 30 September 2014) ....

2015 was a funny year for reading and audio books. There were a lot of surprising, completely unintentional parallels in the books I picked up (and a boatload of time travel). A bit ago I started listening to an audio version of The Odyssey, read by Sir Ian McKellen (who was the primary reason for getting it, a far distant second being that I thought I oug
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Kivrin
Apr 30, 2015 rated it it was amazing
Still one of my favorite books ever. I love the writing. I love Hazel and Bigwig and Fiver. It's a lovely story of bravery, friendship, courage, and hope. Will never get tired of reading it.

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