Watership Down - Richard Adams
This is my mom's favourite book, but for so long, I thought (as I'm sure some of you do), "Why would I want to read a story about rabbits?" But I regret not reading this gem of a book sooner!
Fiver has a terrifying vision of destruction of the warren, and believes that they must all leave at once! His brother (?) Hazel, of course, believes him and they try to get the whole warren to leave. Not surprisingly, most of the rabbits think they're crazy, but some either believe, or want an adventure, and they set out to find a new place to live. Along the way they meet new (sometimes unlikely) friends, meet new (sometimes unlikely) enemies, narrowly escape death, see things they could never have imagined, and build bonds with each other that keep them all fighting for each other, and for the "promised land" of Fiver's visions. This book is a real adventure. It is so exciting and endearing. I will never look at bunnies the same way again. And neither will you after you read this - because I know you will if I tell you to. And I'm telling you to.
Fiver has a terrifying vision of destruction of the warren, and believes that they must all leave at once! His brother (?) Hazel, of course, believes him and they try to get the whole warren to leave. Not surprisingly, most of the rabbits think they're crazy, but some either believe, or want an adventure, and they set out to find a new place to live. Along the way they meet new (sometimes unlikely) friends, meet new (sometimes unlikely) enemies, narrowly escape death, see things they could never have imagined, and build bonds with each other that keep them all fighting for each other, and for the "promised land" of Fiver's visions. This book is a real adventure. It is so exciting and endearing. I will never look at bunnies the same way again. And neither will you after you read this - because I know you will if I tell you to. And I'm telling you to.
posted by Robyn | Saturday, January 20, 2007
4 Comments:
Hey Robs! Thanks for all the book advice! Just so happens I just bought 2 of your reccomendations without knowing it! Next time i will have to check here. Sorry I missed you at Christmas! Miss you, take care,
Stacey
I wonder which ones...?
good call. i haven't read this for ages, but i'm still haunted by the deaths of some of the bunnies.
do you think this book is a metaphor about war?
i just read a cool book you may/may not like, called "a scientific romance". pretty neat.
love you,
j
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