1w ago

Watership Down

Have to recommend this one, just because it has been one of my favorites for about 45 years.

This book has it all, heroes, villains, loyalty, espionage, action and even true. Also it has such incredible characters and dialogue.

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Hey, was this book perhaps mentioned in The Stand by Stephen King?
- It sure was
Adams also wrote some short stories set in the same universe, but they weren't as good as the original book.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tales_from_Watership_Down
All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a thousand enemies. And when they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you.
- Digger, listener, runner, prince with a swift warning.
Silflay hraka, u embleer rah!
- Hehe perfect
I read this book in January, it just kind of fell into my hands. I think it’s a fun perspective to imagine rabbits being somewhat conscious as humans.
- They are conscious beings, but still rabbits, which is what I love so much and which sticks the book in the sci-fi genre for me. It's been a few years since I read jt, but that moment when they were crossing the river and one of the very basic rabbits couldn't even remember the crossing not 1 minute later because it was so outside their rabbity existence... Mwah! So good!
  Every time I see a rabbit in the evening I think about their siflay.
Slowly getting through this in audiobook form (I tend to only listen when I'm doing chores or something, hence slowly.)
Really enjoying it a lot!
- That narrator is great
He's got some great books. Shardik? Is that the other one with the bear?
- I have only read Watership and some of Shardik. Shardik was just bad.
  
  That's fair. The beautiful thing about art is we all get something different from it.

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