Comments on: Book Review: Watership Down

By: Some Thoughts and Quotes on Loneliness

Some Thoughts and Quotes on Loneliness — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 16:47:04 +0000

[...] Watership Down one of the rabbits describes a hollow, frightened feeling as feeling like “trees in [...]

By: Josh Hanagarne

Josh Hanagarne — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:06:25 +0000

Thanks Carlie. If you’d ever like to come write a review about the book, I’d be happy to have another one.

By: Carlie

Carlie — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 15:26:37 +0000

I have always favored Watership Down, and finally admitted that my favorite book above all others is about rabbits. One simply does not understand until they have read it. It pulls me in every time and like you, I have read it several times. Since you stated a passage that sticks with you, I will do the same. It was after the rabbits leave Cowslip’s warren, their first true test a a group and it talks of them working together and trusting one another for they could offer…

“They had come closer together, relying on and valuing each other’s capacities. They knew now that it was on these and on nothing else that their lives depended, and they were not going to waste anything they possessed between them…There was no more questioning of Bigwig’s strength, Fiver’s insight, Blackberry’s wits or Hazel’s authority.”

I loved this shift in the group and the idea of cooperation behind it. I appreciate your review on this book and you couldn’t be more right. This is a fabulous adventure story with more horror, daring, and excitement than I have seen in most other novels. Everyone, do yourself a favor, read this book.

By: Three Great Novels With Disturbed Protagonists | World's Strongest Librarian

Wed, 27 Jan 2010 06:03:15 +0000

[...] I reviewed Watership Down, I got this comment (twice in two days), which I’ll only post the beginning [...]

By: bored

bored — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 05:22:03 +0000

Watership Down is by far one of my favorite books ever. I usually read it in the spring though. LOTR is my winter selection.

By: Sylana

Sylana — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 03:01:08 +0000

Always loved this book. I’ve read it multiple times over the years.
And you’re right, sometimes going back to old classics give you a whole new perspective on them. I remember getting Willy Wonka and Mary Poppins to read to my kids a while back, and realized just how strange those books really are. I still love Narnia, though, and most of the other books I read as a child.
Guardians of Gahoolie is a really good talking animals series, too- about owls, and the Warriors (cats) are good too. My oldest daughter is a bookworm like me, and she devoured both series.

By: Josh Hanagarne

Josh Hanagarne — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 21:55:17 +0000

Beverly, it still may not grab you. Don’t feel bad. There are way too many books out there to read to keep banging away at ones that don’t do it for you. It’s the books job to entertain you, not the other way around.

By: Beverly

Beverly — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:19:10 +0000

I have tried to, as well, and ran into the same snags! But, because of all these posts, I’m going to pick it up again and get myself through it. (This project will be similar to my trying black olives every time I’m around them: I am determined to discover what it is about them that everyone likes!)

By: Josh Hanagarne

Josh Hanagarne — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:23:36 +0000

Hey Shaun. I remember that. You owe me even more than I thought you did. Get over here and scratch my scalp with a brush!