Watership Down - Richard Adams

Richard Adams

Category: Adventure

Narrator: Unknown

Tags: Adventure, General Fiction, Novel

Richard Adams channels his inner Tolkein to create culture, language, and mythology for the characters of this novel. And the fact that most the characters are rabbits only enhances this spellbinding tale of exiled journeying to find a new home. Adams does so much more than simply anthropomorphize his characters to make the story accessible. As opposed to some talking animal stories, you will never forget for one moment that the characters are rabbits because they deal with strictly rabbit problems. Obviously Adams takes some liberties with the boundaries of animal behavior - especially in the way one enemy group is organized - but it in no way detracts from the atmosphere and themes of the novel. Adams balances on the edge of a keen blade in representing his characters as rabbits living a rabbits Life and the conflict, dramas, and relationships that make for an entertaining story. In fact, he dances a tarantella, a waltz, and a tango with some folk dancing thrown in for flavor and all