Watership Down

08-02-2001, 11:16 PM

Anybody read Watership Down, I thought that was a great book, one of my favorites!

08-02-2001, 11:24 PM

Welcome to the board

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I had to read it for school last summer. I thought the beginning was a bit slow, but by the end I couldn't put it down. Of course, endless worksheets, essays, and homework assignments kind of kill the fun of a book :/ .

08-03-2001, 01:11 AM

Oh yes, I have. Loved it.

08-03-2001, 03:20 AM

I thought it was interesting the whole way through, it's one of my favorite books!

08-08-2001, 10:06 PM

I liked it. I also liked the Redwall series.

08-10-2001, 01:56 PM

Cool, I love the Redwall series!

Darth Tater · 08-12-2001, 11:30 AM

I love Watership Down, and find Redwall books slow, drag, and boring (yes I know I just said the same thing three times). Go figure

chikakat · 08-19-2001, 04:04 PM

I adored Watership Down...has anyone read the sequel, "Tales from Watership Down"? I liked it, but it seemed much more of a little kid book than the original.

As for the Redwall series, I used to read those books constantly, but then they got a little old...kind of the same story again and again...

Theodred · 08-20-2001, 07:12 PM

Yes, I have read Tales from Watership Down, we were discussing it earlier in the thread!
I guess I haven't grown out of the Redwall Series because I'm still a kid!

Bregalad · 11-16-2001, 12:04 AM

I love Watership Down! I think Adams is just brilliant! It's very difficult to write about what an animal might think or say without making them too human and Adams does it just right. Yes they talk, but they still think like what I imagine rabbits would think like! I love the part where the one rabbit that's really capable of abstract though (Blackberry, I think) is trying to explain to Hazel about how the plank floats on the water when they are trying to escape the dog loose in the wood. Hazel never does understand it, he just trusts Blackberry to know what he's talking about. Even when Fiver and Pipkin are in the middle of the stream floating on the plank, most of the rabbits still can't quite grasp what's going on, it's like magic to them. And Magic time again when they use the trick to escape Gen. Woundwort on the skiff. How I would have loved to see the expression on his face! He couldn't have been more suprised if they had sprouted wings and flown away! What a wonderful book! i've read it over and over!

Renille · 11-17-2001, 12:50 AM

I've heard of Watership Down, but I've never read it. I love the Redwall series, though. The plots get repetitive, but there are always subplots and/or characters that get me involved so much I couldn't put it down.

***Tessar*** · 11-20-2001, 02:54 PM

Hey cool!

I love bothe Redwall AND Watership down.

I also liked Tailes from watership down.

fireworks19 · 11-20-2001, 06:04 PM

I haven't read Watership Down, but I have read most of the Redwall series. Yummy.

Aragorn · 11-20-2001, 06:31 PM

I love Redwall. I have heard of Watership Down, but not that much. I only know about it because in some of the Redwall books on the cover it says "In Tradition Of Watership Down".

Alethes · 12-29-2001, 08:51 PM

Watership Down is one of my favorite books.

I have read Tales From Watership Down, but didn't like it as much as Watership Down.

I've read all but one of the Redwall books, and like them a lot. However, I like them less now than when I first read them.

Lumina · 12-30-2001, 08:58 PM

I adore Watership Down!! I read it three times in a row when I was ten and developed and obsession with wild rabbits. Since then I've read it at least three more times (although not for several years) and watched and rewatched the 1978 animated film version. (Voices by John Hurt, Richard Briers, Michael Graham Cox - Boromir in the BBC radio LotR -, Ralph Richardson, Denholm Elliot and Nigel Hawthorne - with the bonus of nicely animanted, non-cutsey bunnies. A wonderful adaptation, and often genuinely frightening).

I love the first line in the book - "the primroses were over" - and the last line - "the primroses were beginning to bloom".

Amazing that Adams was able to write such an exciting, dramatic and moving epic novel about a bunch of rabbits. I've always liked the fact that parts of WD are quite dark - it's one of the most atmospheric of books.

Bregalad · 01-05-2002, 06:57 PM

Lumina,
I loved the annimated version too! It was very faithfull to the book and the annimation is beautiful. The openning scene, with the butterfly on the stalk of wheat is simply gorgeous!

FrodoFriend · 01-08-2002, 01:29 AM

Yes!! I love this forum!!

Watership Down has been one of my favorites for years . . . my copy is all read to pieces (much like my former copy of LotR!). I've never wanted to read Redwall, though. The idea of rodents acting like humans (wearing clothes? wielding swords?) just totally turns me off. It's so demeaning (to the rodents) and just generally annoying.

markedel · 01-31-2002, 09:33 PM

I loved redwall and watership. Jaques is a great writer.

Starr Polish · 01-31-2002, 09:39 PM

Watership Down was amazing, though I've only read it once. I found out about it from the back of my Redwall books.

I used to be VERY into Redwall, but I've moved on in my authors.

08-02-2001, 11:16 PM	#1
Theodred21 Guest Posts: n/a	Watership Down Anybody read Watership Down, I thought that was a great book, one of my favorites!

08-02-2001, 11:24 PM	#2
bmilder Guest Posts: n/a	Re: Watership Down Welcome to the board . I had to read it for school last summer. I thought the beginning was a bit slow, but by the end I couldn't put it down. Of course, endless worksheets, essays, and homework assignments kind of kill the fun of a book :/ .

08-03-2001, 01:11 AM	#3
anduin Guest Posts: n/a	Welcome, welcome! Oh yes, I have. Loved it.

08-03-2001, 03:20 AM	#4
Theodred21 Guest Posts: n/a	Re: Welcome, welcome! I thought it was interesting the whole way through, it's one of my favorite books!

08-08-2001, 10:06 PM	#5
Finmandos12 Guest Posts: n/a	Re: Watership Down I liked it. I also liked the Redwall series.

08-10-2001, 01:56 PM	#6
Theodred21 Guest Posts: n/a	Re: Watership Down Cool, I love the Redwall series!

08-12-2001, 11:30 AM	#7
Darth Tater The man Join Date: Sep 1999 Location: MA Posts: 4,572	I love Watership Down, and find Redwall books slow, drag, and boring (yes I know I just said the same thing three times). Go figure __________________ Visit the worlds greatest webpage! No, not The Tolkien Trail! Just click this! The Tolkien Trail ~Camelot

08-19-2001, 04:04 PM	#8
chikakat Sapling Join Date: Aug 2001 Posts: 1	I adored Watership Down...has anyone read the sequel, "Tales from Watership Down"? I liked it, but it seemed much more of a little kid book than the original. As for the Redwall series, I used to read those books constantly, but then they got a little old...kind of the same story again and again...

08-20-2001, 07:12 PM	#9
Theodred Sapling Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Boston, Massachusetts U.S.A. Posts: 6	Yes, I have read Tales from Watership Down, we were discussing it earlier in the thread! I guess I haven't grown out of the Redwall Series because I'm still a kid! __________________ Theodred son of Theoden, Prince of Rohan!

11-16-2001, 12:04 AM	#10
Bregalad Elven Warrior Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: KY Posts: 217	I love Watership Down! I think Adams is just brilliant! It's very difficult to write about what an animal might think or say without making them too human and Adams does it just right. Yes they talk, but they still think like what I imagine rabbits would think like! I love the part where the one rabbit that's really capable of abstract though (Blackberry, I think) is trying to explain to Hazel about how the plank floats on the water when they are trying to escape the dog loose in the wood. Hazel never does understand it, he just trusts Blackberry to know what he's talking about. Even when Fiver and Pipkin are in the middle of the stream floating on the plank, most of the rabbits still can't quite grasp what's going on, it's like magic to them. And Magic time again when they use the trick to escape Gen. Woundwort on the skiff. How I would have loved to see the expression on his face! He couldn't have been more suprised if they had sprouted wings and flown away! What a wonderful book! i've read it over and over! __________________ "They have called me that ever since I said yes to an elder Ent before he had finished his question" -Quickbeam This post property of Entmoot.

11-17-2001, 12:50 AM	#11
Renille Elven Lady of Speed-posting Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the cheese state Posts: 988	I've heard of Watership Down, but I've never read it. I love the Redwall series, though. The plots get repetitive, but there are always subplots and/or characters that get me involved so much I couldn't put it down. __________________ Oh the thinks you can think! Think and wonder and dream...far and wide as you dare! When your thinks have run dry, in the blink of an eye, there's another world there... (from Seussical the Musical. Listen to it...watch it...really.)

11-20-2001, 02:54 PM	#12
*Tessar* Master and Wielder of the Cardboard Harp of Gondor Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: IM IN UR POSTZ, EDITIN' UR WURDZ Posts: 6,433	Hey cool! I love bothe Redwall AND Watership down. I also liked Tailes from watership down.

11-20-2001, 06:04 PM	#13
fireworks19 Elven Warrior Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Indiana Posts: 156	I haven't read Watership Down, but I have read most of the Redwall series. Yummy. __________________ Just Watch the Fireworks Just Meet Fireworks =)

11-20-2001, 06:31 PM	#14
Aragorn Elven Warrior Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Anywhere but where I should be. Posts: 369	I love Redwall. I have heard of Watership Down, but not that much. I only know about it because in some of the Redwall books on the cover it says "In Tradition Of Watership Down". __________________ And they carried them to the flatlands But they died along the way And they built up with their bare hands What we still can't do today. EIDRIORCQWSDAKLMEDDCWWTIWOATTOPWFIO till the day I die.

12-29-2001, 08:51 PM	#15
Alethes Enting Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: urban Oklahoma Posts: 73	Watership Down is one of my favorite books. I have read Tales From Watership Down, but didn't like it as much as Watership Down. I've read all but one of the Redwall books, and like them a lot. However, I like them less now than when I first read them. __________________ He who loves a pure heart and whose speech is gracious will have the king for his friend. -Proverbs 22:11

12-30-2001, 08:58 PM	#16
Lumina Sapling Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Sydney, Australia Posts: 14	I adore Watership Down!! I read it three times in a row when I was ten and developed and obsession with wild rabbits. Since then I've read it at least three more times (although not for several years) and watched and rewatched the 1978 animated film version. (Voices by John Hurt, Richard Briers, Michael Graham Cox - Boromir in the BBC radio LotR -, Ralph Richardson, Denholm Elliot and Nigel Hawthorne - with the bonus of nicely animanted, non-cutsey bunnies. A wonderful adaptation, and often genuinely frightening). I love the first line in the book - "the primroses were over" - and the last line - "the primroses were beginning to bloom". Amazing that Adams was able to write such an exciting, dramatic and moving epic novel about a bunch of rabbits. I've always liked the fact that parts of WD are quite dark - it's one of the most atmospheric of books. __________________ I trust I make myself obscure?

01-05-2002, 06:57 PM	#17
Bregalad Elven Warrior Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: KY Posts: 217	Lumina, I loved the annimated version too! It was very faithfull to the book and the annimation is beautiful. The openning scene, with the butterfly on the stalk of wheat is simply gorgeous! __________________ "They have called me that ever since I said yes to an elder Ent before he had finished his question" -Quickbeam This post property of Entmoot.

01-08-2002, 01:29 AM	#18
FrodoFriend Halfwitted Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Eryn Vorn Posts: 1,659	Yes!! I love this forum!! Watership Down has been one of my favorites for years . . . my copy is all read to pieces (much like my former copy of LotR!). I've never wanted to read Redwall, though. The idea of rodents acting like humans (wearing clothes? wielding swords?) just totally turns me off. It's so demeaning (to the rodents) and just generally annoying. __________________ Fingolfin lives! ... in my finger! The Crossroads of Arda - Warning. Halfwit content. Not appropriate for people with IQ of over 18. The Fellowship of the Message Board Nyáréonié - The Tale of Tears

01-31-2002, 09:33 PM	#19
markedel 'Sober' Mullet Frosh Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Queen's Posts: 1,245	I loved redwall and watership. Jaques is a great writer. __________________ "Earnur was a man like his father in valour, but not in wisdom"

01-31-2002, 09:39 PM	#20
Starr Polish Elf Lord Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Slow down and I sail on the river, slow down and I walk to the hill Posts: 2,389	Watership Down was amazing, though I've only read it once. I found out about it from the back of my Redwall books. I used to be VERY into Redwall, but I've moved on in my authors. __________________ “The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.” –Bertrand Russell

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