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Watership Down

Richard Adams

4.04 AVERAGE

lonelycompass's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful sad tense slow-paced

Loveable characters: Yes

danieltol's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

Good book!
I enjoyed a lot of it, especially the parts where there are different kinds of rabbit cultures and how they differ.

However, towards the part where they were going to raid Efrafa I lost a bit of my interest and since I was slowly chewing my way through the book for the last 2 months I found it a good moment to reach the end.

The battle is cool though and the ending is lovely :)

Also, Peter Capaldi does a good job narrating!

finozbleck's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

It's still just as good as I remembered when I read this in high school. It's just as intense as I remember it being when I initially read this well over a decade ago. Definitely still fits into the classics category for me. I don't regret reading it when I did, both in high school and now more than a decade later as it's a fantastic book.

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m_simms's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous emotional reflective sad fast-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

About half way through, this book completely changed my opinion on both classics and animal protagonists. The amount of real hardships this book manages to cover combined with the incredibly picturesque writing made this a book I will forever think about.