Watership Down by Richard Adams
This is my hands-down favorite book of all time. I think I’ve read it about 15 times since I was a kid. It’s about this community of rabbits (yes, you read that right, rabbits) who are forced to leave their warren when it is bulldozed over to make a construction site. So starts their adventurous search for a new home. On their journey, they meet a suicidal warren of poetry-spouting rabbits, discover asphalt roads, and are forced to join a military warren run by the Hitler of the animal kingdom, General Woundwart. Adams manages to make these rabbits the most human animals you ever met, without them losing a bit a their rabb-ability. They love, fight, and tell stories about their own folk heroes, but they never speak English, stand on their hind feet, or in short, act like anything but rabbits. It’s just the most amazing book, and I recommend it to everybody. Don’t be put off by the length–you’ll be completely absorbed until the last page.
Heather said,
December 30, 2007 @ 5:25 pm
My favorite, favorite, favorite book of ALL time! I read it for the first time in third grade and about once a year since then!
WhiteCrane00 said,
March 17, 2008 @ 10:29 pm
I LOVE this book! It’s amazing. I remember I finished it in like a day - up until like 4am or something reading it. My heart was seriously loudly thumping away when I was reaching the climax. AMAZING!! Highly recommend it!
CaptainHollyisMINE! said,
May 14, 2008 @ 4:53 pm
I know! It was only 3 month ago when I finished it, so I can remember every lyrical chapter.