Tales from Watership Down by Richard Adams
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Book Reviews of Tales from Watership Down
Book Review: A book that leaves you beging for more.
Summary: 4 Stars
As a fifth grader I thought that this was a wonderful book. Yet it was also a challenge to read with many confusing parts. Even though it was challenging. I loved every minute of it, and recommend it to a more advanced audience. In the story there is a group of rabbits who live on a down, and have a lot of adventures but none compare to their big fight with General Woundwart (you can read about that in Watership Down another novel by Richard Adams.) One adventure is when Hyzenthlay (one of the rabbits) goes out to stay with an injured rabbit and then brings her back. My least favorite adventure is when a rabbit named Sandwort who is rebellious and disrespectful falls in a well and two rabbits save him. I think this book is a great book but like all books it has its flaws such as: they have more stories then adventures. The book is not long enough and it needs a little bit more details. But still I gave gave the book 4 stars because it was good. The way it held my interest was by leaving you in suspense. I thought Tales From Watership Down was a great book you will to.Book Review: My Review
Summary: 4 Stars
Tales from Watership Down is a collection of legends and short stories that flesh out the history of the rabbits of Watership Down and continue their story after the events of the original novel. I personally had never read any of Richard Adams works prior to this (I have seen the animated film adaptation of Watership Down however, so was fairly familiar with the events and plot.) I was very impressed with how quickly I was drawn into Adams' world. His writing style is very easy to slip into and I found this collection of tales extremely difficult to put down. Mr. Adams has created a social world amongst his rabbits that is as totally believable and feels as fleshed out as Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, albeit Adams world only exists in the one novel and this compilation of short stories. I don't know why I've never read any of his works before as they have always been favorites of my step-father and accessible to me throughout my lifetime, but now that I have sampled his writing, I'm more than eager to delve into more.
Book Review: Return to Watership Down
Summary: 4 Stars
I'd be the first to admit that this collection of short stories falls short of the original, but it's still a entertaining read. The rabbit folk tales that make up the first third are clever little reads and the further adventures of the legendary Elahrair-Rah in the second part brought a smile to my face. The third section, which fit in between the defeat of General Woundwort and the epilogue in the timeline of the novel, is a bit unevenly written, but it's still interesting to hear about the growth and development of the Watership Down warren, and some of the interesting rabbit characters they run across, including an Efrafan Owsla captain turned ally, a rebellious young rabbit who gets a frightening come-uppance, and the first female chief rabbit, whose success is sadly undermined by her obsessive fear of the White Blindness. Maybe the flashes of magical realism that characterized the original book aren't as prevalent in this volume, but it's still worth spending some time returning to this literally down-to-earth world.Book Review: Keep an open mind
Summary: 4 Stars
Watership Down is my favorite book of all time, outdistancing all others without much effort. And so, when I learned there was a sequel, I immediately went out and got it.The main thing you must keep in mind, though, is this: Watership Down really has no need of a sequel; it stands perfectly alone. Tales from Watership Down is entirely optional, though it stands on its own pretty well, too. In some ways, Tales is more like deleted scenes.
The book mostly consists of more El-ahrairah fables, which are enjoyable, but sometimes leave you chafing at the bit. When Hazel and the other Watership Down characters at last emerge, they are no less real than in the first book. We finally learn how the warren managed after the fall of General Woundwort, and that is the most satisfying element of this book.
It may be little, but Tales from Watership Down packs a punch. It is not an embarrassment to the original, nor Richard Adams himself.
Highly recommended to Watership Down fans.
Book Review: Ok I am comparing this to W D
Summary: 4 Stars
This is somthing that almost gave me a heart attack at the library. So I read the original as an assighment, and loved it, but when we had to turn it back in I wanted to buy it so to read it agian,so I go to the library and im looking on the wall then boom bam! It hits me, the hardcover edition of Tales From Watership Down. I swipe the book and read it in 4 hrs ( It is short even though it a fat book) I was pleased but I think mr Adams should make another sequal not dealing with Watership Down but another warren somwhere out there. I KNOW HE HAS THE IMAGINATION! For all who think the Watership Down books suck they have no imagination and should stick with the little golden books about their favorite cartoon characters. Heck now I have a rabbit companion in my room! They really are smart creatures! Who has seen What Dreams May Come ? I hope heaven is like that becouse I would be in a warren!