Tales from Watership Down by Richard Adams
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Book Reviews of Tales from Watership Down
Book Review: This book is th best ever written.
Summary: 5 Stars
I'd rate this book 1 billion You must buy this collection of tales!!!!!You will get a lot out of it!!!!! It is so easy to understand and it is really short!!You will read it from ni-frith to fu inl'e! I really enjoyed this book and I think anyone will like it! It is very compelling and adventurous, and is very discriptive. This book should be translated into every language. I'm sure a lot of kids would enjoy this book, and I am one of them. "The Sense Of Smell" is a very imaginable story. You will enjoy reading the two last stories of part 1. Mr. Adams is an excellent writer! You MUST READ THIS BOOK!!!!!!!! Please!Read it with a pfeffa(cat), in a hrududu(car), ni-frith(noon) or ALL THE TIME!!! It is very enjoyable!! It is a story of many rabbits adventures and hedgehogs and the dangers of man. This story should be an addition to any personal, private or public library. I got excellent pictures in my mind of what was going on. If some body doesn't buy this book, I will have to hypnotize This is an excellent BUY IT!!!! Please. It has got the best discriptions, stories and characters in the world!!!!Take my advice, BUY IT. The stories I really like are "The Terrible Hay-Making" and "The Rabbit's Ghost Story." This book also has many cover illustrations. Mother rabbit with babies, rabbit running in snow, rabbit in forest, and rabbit eating carrot. The one with the rabbit in the forest has a 3d o rabbit. I highly recomend this book to anyone (who can read English). Please.Please.Please.Please...READ THIS BOOK!! It IS the BEST ever written.BEST. BUY Listen to me. Poor Milmown gets sick. Just BUY IT. --Will Age NINE Rabbits buy it. PLEASE.
This book is so good you will probably finish it immediately. It's reader's digest!!!! PLease read this wonderful story of the Honeycomb and Watership Down.It's the best book in the is the best book I have ever read in my life!!If someone doesn't like this book, there crazy! I cannot stop telling you readers how much I LOVE this book. It is the ultimate book of the Milky Way. I'm sure aliens would read this book!
Events: The rabbits are having trouble in there warren.They go see Kehaar and then Milmown.Milmown dies. They go to Thinial. Then they meet Flyairth. They start a new warren. They then meet Sandwort,Stonecrop, and finally Campion.
You must read this billion star book.Period. Uh oh! Spaghetti-O! Review: Worthwhile Read, but Much Different than Original Novel
Summary: 5 Stars
This book is not very similar to the original novel, which is what I think makes it so interesting and worthwhile to read. I definitely prefer the original, but I believe this work has something important to say. Each of the tales is worthy of the telling and the reading.
I probably will not re-read this as I have the original work, but I don't think I should be comparing this novel to the original one in this review. This is good storytelling in-and-of itself and does not need to be put side-by-side with Watership Down.
The shorter tales are excellent quick reading, and make this an easier book to pick up and put down in our busy lives. Much of what the author is saying in these tales is incredibly fascinating. I was particularly drawn to the paradox that the man-smell, which the rabbits would generally use as a reason to outcast one of their own, is actually what saves the warren. The wisdom of the characters to recognize this is nicely woven into the tale. As with his other works, Richard Adams shows incredible insight into our natural world, especially that of community living animals. It is nice to see humanity in these creatures; or rather, theirs reflected in us. (I am not sure which is more accurate.)
This is a nice collection of touching tales that definitely have something significant to say. As long as readers are not expecting a repeat of the original book, I believe this will be an enjoyable experience. Just don't expect it to read like a sequel.
J.H. Sweet, author of The Fairy Chronicles
Book Review: Sure, it's not Watership Down, but still an excellent read.
Summary: 5 Stars
I have just been reading some reviews of this, which go from excellent to awful in terms of how it is. I first would say that I have never encountered an author with the imagination of Mr. Adams. He is brilliant. Read WD. Read "Shardik". Read "The Plague Dogs". Read "Maia". I found the stories here wonderful and fascinating. El-ahrairah does not come off as a begger as some reviewers have said, but more of an epic hero than in WD. His journeys after the encounter with the Black Rabbit of Inle are indeed epic in scope and content. The "Rabbit's Ghost Story" was chilling and the tale of El-ahrairah's journey to the Kingdom of Yesterday, where a bison rules over all the animals and plants that were ever extinct is true genius. Enchanting writing. I found part III of the book a welcome return to much loved characters. Yes, this is not "Watership Down". Mr. Adams could never write something like that again. No one could. Trying to write a sequel to it is like someone writing a sequel to Victor Hugo's "Les Miserables" (which someone did a few years back: it was awful!) or writing a sequel to Tolstoy's "War And Peace". It just can't be done. What this book is is a wonderful companion and extension to the original story. I am further enriched by it and shall continue to look at those rabbits in the grassy meadow near my house with perpetual wonder and respect.Book Review: Tales from Watership is no Wash-out!
Summary: 5 Stars
I was really surprised that the edition I had bought was published three years ago, and I did'nt know!But I have read it and its almost as good as the original, even though its written in a different style. This book contains short stories that tell us the of the adventures of El-ahrairah and Rabscuttle. There are more stories that tell us wahat sort of stories they tell each other{Speedweels story}and what happened in the year after they had defeated General Woundwort.You meet a host of new characters, and even though they are in them for only one story, they are incredibly well written and very realistic to read. I was really sad that one of my favourite characters from the original dies{I'm not telling who it is}but it makes a story seem more dramatic and exciting! It really is a book that everyone should own!Book Review: I love this book!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a good book. The first two sections are about the rabit role model El-hairaina. He is a little rabit who goes around and has adventures. In the first book, Watership Down, there were a few chapters about this rabit. I really looked forward to those chapters. In this book I liked to read about his other adventures. It is even better to read about Hazel and Fiver and even Bigwig in a new journy with new friends. Maybe my opinion just makes since to me, but this is a must read if you liked El-hairaina.