Watership Down (Watership Down, #1)

Posted on 11 August 2017 by Richard Adams

Set in England s Downs, a once idyllic rural landscape, this stirring tale of adventure, courage and survival follows a band of very special creatures on their flight from the intrusion of man and the certain destruction of their home Led by a stouthearted pair of friends, they journey forth from their native Sandleford Warren through the harrowing trials posed by predators and adversaries, to a mysterious promised land and a perfect society. Best Read [ Watership Down (Watership Down, #1) ] Author [ Richard Adams ] For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr oh man, this book totally tricked me I got a bad haircut one day so I needed to lay low for a few weeks Supercuts , my ass Liars I called two of my hardest, most straight up thug homies Zachary and Dustin to bring me some of their books and this was one of them I had just watched a show on AE about WWII naval battles so I couldn t WAIT to read Watership Down I love sea stories, man overboard and off the port bow and aye aye cap n all that stuff so I pulled my hat down an oh man, this book totally tricked me I got a bad haircut one day so I needed to lay low for a few weeks Supercuts , my ass Liars I called two of my hardest, most straight up thug homies Zachary and Dustin to bring me some of their books and this was one of them I had just watched a show on AE about WWII naval battles so I couldn t WAIT to read Watership Down I love sea stories, man overboard and off the port bow and aye aye cap n all that s...The premise of Watership Down may sound ridiculous To put it simply it s the story of a bunch of rabbits who leave their comfortable but doomed home,and try to make a new and better one, a couple of square miles away It should be ridiculous Come on bunnies Oh, but it s not ridiculous at all It is epic Distance, as we measure it, is irrelevant What a human arrogant lord of the earth traverses without a thought in just a few strides, is a vast and terror filled expanse to a ten i The premise of Watership Down may sound ridiculous To put it simply it s the story of a bunch of rabbits who leave their comfortable but doomed home,and try to make a new and better one, a couple of square miles away It should be ridiculous Come on bunnies Oh, but it s not ridiculous at all It is epic Distance, as we measure it, is irrelevant What a human arrogant lord of the earth traverses without a thought in just a few strides, is a vast and terror filled expanse to a ten inch tall animal at the bottom of the food chain This tension was beautifully captured, and thrummed throughout ...I don t give a shit what Richard Adams says about his book because it simply isn t true According to him, in the preface of my edition, this is just a story about rabbits Its intended purpose was to entertain his children in the car, that s fair enough, but he also says there is no intentional allegorical meaning whatsoever I find this hard to believe The allegories in here are rich and meaningful Th...Re read on audio is great Still truly wonderful sad OMG I can t believe it has taken me all of these years to read this book It was such a wonderful book There were some sad things, but I was able to get through it I loved getting lost in this world of rabbits, where they talked of their fears, of things they needed to get done, the great camara...Ok, so it s a book about a bunch of rabbits traveling through a small stretch of English countryside As such, it doesn t seem like something that would appeal to anyone but a preteen But the fact of the matter is this is a great story, full of rich characters, a deep if occasionally erroneous understanding of things lapine, and it can reach moments of depth and profundity that the movie of the same title does not even begin to hint at I was actually introduced to this book in one of the bes Ok, so it s a book about a bunch of rabbits traveling through a small stretch of English countryside As such, it doesn t seem like something that would appeal to anyone but a preteen But the fact of the matter is this is a great story, full of rich characters, a deep if occasionally erroneous understanding of things lapine, and it can reach moments of depth and profundity that the movie of the same title does not even begin to hint at I was actually ...El ahrairah, your people cannot rule the world, for I will not have it so All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a Thousand Enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed When Fiver, a seer, is overcome with a vivid dream of mass destruction He tries to convince the rabbits in charge of the validity of his vision The El ahrairah, your people cannot rule the world, for I will not have it so All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a Thousand Enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed When Fiver, a seer, is overcome with a vivid dream of mass destruction He tries to convince the rabbits in charge of the validity of his vision They are dismissive, but one rabbit named Hazel does believe him They convince nine other bucks to leave the warren with them Driven by fear and curiosity they begin an odyssey that if Homer had been fortunate enough to hear about, would have given him another epic story to tell for a fewcopper coins in the town square Hazel finds out he is a natural leader and thr...I started this book about 2 months ago, got through the first 10 pages or so and I was not interested in continuing I put it down In all honesty, it seemed like it was going to be too babyish for me I mean come on, bunnies though Seriously About a week ago I got to a point where I didn t have anything else to read so there I was, staring pensively at my obese bookshelf, thinking about reading Lord of the Rings for the 12th time, when I noticed Watership Down poking its cute little bunny fac I started this book about 2 months ago, got through the first 10 pages or so and I was not interested in continuing I put it down In all honesty, it seemed like it was going to be too babyish for me I mean come on, bunnies though Seriously About a week ago I got to a point where I didn t have anything else to read so there I was, staring pensively at my obese bookshelf, thinking about reading Lord of the Rings for the 12th time, when I noticed Watership Down poking its cute little bunny face out at me I figured, hey, it s almost Easter, so what the heck, I might as well try it again So I picked Watership Down back up with the intent of giving it just a fewpages Much to my surprise...Most reviews I write just for the hell of it, for my own records and if some people like them I am just happy as a lark For Watership Down however, I am just a little bitambitious I would like to convince people who feel averse to reading a novel for children about rabbits to drop their preconception and give this book a chance This is not a book about cute little bunnies running around eating carrots and being adorable 24 7 This is one of the most badass book...In memory of Richard Adams 1920 2016 Some books have an amazingly unexplainable ability to transcend the purpose of their creation and take a leap into being an instant timeless classicAll the world will be your enemy, Prince of a Thousand enemies And when they catch you, they will kill you But first they must catch you digger, listener, runner, Prince with the swift warning Be cunning, and full of tricks, and your people will never be destroyedWatership Down began as an imp In memory of Richard Adams 1920 2016 Some books have an amazingly unexplainable ability to transcend the purpose of their creation and take a leap into being an instant timeless classicAll the world will be your enemy, Prince of a Thousand enemies And when they catch you, they will kill you But first they must catch you digger, listener, runner, Prince with the swift warning Be cunning, and full of tricks, and your people will never be destroyedWatership Down began as an impromptu entertainment for Adams two young daughters on long car trips an adventure of a migrating bunch of somewhat anthropomorphic but yet very rabbit like rabbits It is a story full of palpable love for English countryside, full of rabbity allegories of the variations of... All the world will be your enemy, Prince of a Thousand enemies And when they catch you, they will kill you But first they must catch you digger, listener, runner, Prince with the swift warning Be cunning, and full of tricks, and your people will never be destroyed.This is my all time favorite bookalthough some of my love for this book may be an emotional attachment to the time in my life when it was read for the first time Before this book, my parents used to read to me at bedtime on my All the world will be your enemy, Prince of a Thousand enemies And when they catch you, they will kill you But first they must catch you digger, listener, runner, Prince with the swift warning Be cunning, and full of tricks, and your people will never be destroyed.This is my all time favorite bookalthough some of my love for this book may be an emotio...

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11 August 2017

Richard Adams