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Oh, hey, thanks for making this thread. Sorry to get all down on the Warrior's thread.

Interestingly enough, I once had to read Watership Down and compare it with Lord of the Flies for a sociology course. I like the way that Watership Down actually explores different social structures, which resemble human ones, using rabbits as the main players. Now, I don't actually know much about rabbit behavior, but I can recognize patterns of human behavior from time to time and this book was often spot-on.

You know, it's interesting to note that Adams, like Tolkien, has a rich parallel world developed in this book, even going so far as to invent a rabit language (I still call cars Hrudhudhus sometimes) and even a kind of vernacular ("going tharn," silflay, etc.) Yet he's also carefully interwoven the instinctual and observed behavior of real lapines into this fantasy world of talking bunnies. I think it's a great example of what the imagination can do with a little push from the real world.

Adams has written quite a few books, but I'm afraid Watership Down is the only thing I've read by him. Certainly I didn't get around to reading Tales from Watership Down and I wonder why.

I haven't read Plague Dogs, either.

I've only read Watership Down and Tales from Watership Down. By the time I looked at his other books, I wasn't so into reading new books that had animals as characters, even if it was by an author I already knew.

I love the rabbit language! It was so interesting. I can't remember the term for it....

I always half-forget most of the side characters until one of them is mentioned. Acorn, for example. After they leave the evil, man-controlled warren, I entirely forgot about him until Tales or something. A couple of the other original rabbits I always forget about, too. I forget them so thouroughly, in fact that I can't remember their names right now. Let's see.... The original rabbits. Fiver, Hazel, Bigwig, Silver, Dandelion, Blackberry, Acorn, something with the word hawk in it, I think, and that's all I remember. There had to have been more. Oh, well. I like Blackberry and Bigwig best. Two complete opposites, but they're fun. And Dandelion is another favorite. Gotta love the storytellers.

Tales from Watership Down is a good book. Not as good as Watership Down, but you get quite a bit of interesting, random tales from various characters. As I said, Bluebell's nonsense story is really funny. If you get around to it, at least read that chapter. I think it was chapter eleven, but I'm not entirely sure. That may have just been the last number on the page.

It's a great book! 'Specially someone who loves animals. heart

The animated movie was awful. I saw it and I was pissed off for a week. I was so thankful that I'd only rented it from the library. I would never pay to see that movie.

loved the book heart i think it's really enchanting but i haven't read Tales or seen the movie(which by the sounds of it is a good thing) mrgreen

I actually finished the movie. I just wanted to see what other characters they left out. I can't believe they skipped over Strawberry! I love Strawberry! If I remember rightly, didn't they not have Holly or Bluebell either? And Hyzenthlay went on the run with the dog, too. Ugh. No does went on the run. What I really hated was the addition of the doe in the beginning, who got taken by the hawk. For one thing, they didn't lose a single member of the original party. For another, no does at all left with them. Why did they add a non-existent character?! Grr! <.< I'll stop now.

Oh my god. Not only was there a movie, but there's apparently a TV series for the book. Also animated. That's just scary.

...To find it to watch it, or not? Probably not.