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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: fiction, fantasy
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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J.L. Morin
Aug 22, 2014 rated it it was amazing
A gripping account of the ravages of 'cultivation' and 'man over nature' that only becomes more relevant each year, as we pollute the Earth more and more. ...more
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Jan 19, 2011 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
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Mar 27, 2011 marked it as to-read
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Kevin Xu
Jun 26, 2011 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
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