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Watership Down by Richard Adams

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robin_s's review against another edition

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adventurous hopeful informative medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

kailina's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

theteaisaddictive's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Absolutely masterful start to finish. The rabbit-lore of El-Ahrairah and his many adventures was so wonderfully atmospheric, combined with the thought and care that went into the language and inferiority of the rabbits — to say nothing of the plot itself. An absolute classic that I can’t believe I never read before now.

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millamoi's review against another edition

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adventurous

4.25

andrewfetz's review against another edition

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1.0

I get why people love it so much, but personally didn’t really do anything for me

isjones's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional hopeful tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

sade's review against another edition

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4.0

"i want to emphasize that Watership Down was never intended to be some sort of allegory or parable. It is simply the story about rabbits made up and told in the car"
- Richard Adams

I think it's important to have this at the back of your mind when you read this book. There were times when some of the things the characters did really didn't make sense to me cos i felt like there was a better way and then i'd be like Sade, these characters' are Rabbits.
That aside this was a very charming story of the resourcefullness of our band of rabbits. I would advice watching the Netflix adaptation before reading this book just because there was a whole lot of Nature exposition going on in this book that i just could not get on board with and it would probably be a whole lot easier to picture everything that's happening. There were also certain times , not a lot mind you that i could not place what the rabbits were describing.

Given that this story is told from a rabbit's perspective of the world, i think this is a fantastic book.