The plot is decent, offering action and suspense at minor times throughout the story. While the book offers a continuous, easily followed, plot the book didn't seem to grasp me. The book was a good read, but I never found myself dying to read more after setting it down. In conclusion, I would recomm...
Now, Watership Down is a great book, about rabbits, written by a man who only told stories off the top of his head. Although, in my opinion, it is somewhat boring, it is interesting in the way that there is a backstory interlaced with the real story, which seem almost to relate.
It's been a funny year for reading and audio books. There have been a lot of surprising, completely unintentional parallels in the books I've picked up (and a boatload of time travel). A bit ago I started listening to an audio version of The Odyssey, read by Sir Ian McKellen (who was the primary rea...
This would actually be a 3.5 star book for me, but I erred on the upper rating because it's a classic and it's very well written. Generally, I don't really go for "anthropormorphic animal" stories. My favorite Disney movies tend to be those about PEOPLE, even eschewing blockbusters like "The Lion Ki...
So first, how creepy/accurate is this cover? It sums up the book perfectly. I never read this book growing up. I never even saw the (child scarring) movie either. I went in knowing it had something to do with rabbits. And that was it. The beginning of the book actually had an intro written by th...
I watched the 1978 cartoon adaptation of Watership Down when I was quite young, under 10 years old. I wasn't told beforehand that the film wasn't going to be your typical cartoon adventure about rabbits, so the mature themes and, particularly, the brutality and bloodshed left an indelible mark on my...
Some books have an amazingly unexplainable ability to transcend the purpose of their creation and take a leap into being an instant timeless classic. “All the world will be your enemy, Prince of a Thousand enemies. And when they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you; digger, l...
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