Read it when I was a kid, and I'm pretty sure it screwed me up, so yeah. Great book. I remember that he had another one, and for some reason my dad wouldn't let me read it. I'm guessing that if he had actually read Watership Down, he wouldn't have let me read that, either.
You're probably thinking of Shardik which got advertised in the U.S. as ... being like? ... in the same vein? ... should appeal to the same bunch of people who liked Watership Down. It was not a good marketing strategy.
Oh man. I love Watership Down, and I read it when I was young enough (8) to not really understand that the chapter quotes were from other books. I picked it up eventually, but I'd memorised a lot of them in my re-reads, and my Renaissance poetry course in particular gave me a lot of unexpected rabbit flashbacks. Great book, too.
(and that Auden bit about "the woods have come and are standing round/in deadly crescent" terrified me for years. I'm not quoting the rest of it!)
...and my Renaissance poetry course in particular gave me a lot of unexpected rabbit flashbacks.
That's hysterical. I love the idea of the teacher carefully selecting these meaningful poems, and unintentionally giving you severe rabbit flashbacks.
(and that Auden bit about "the woods have come and are standing round/in deadly crescent" terrified me for years. I'm not quoting the rest of it!)
Wait, where is that part? Further in, toward the end? I either haven't reached it yet, or it clearly didn't lock into the same scary part of my reptile mind as it did for you.
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I've got lots of love for Watership Down, both the book and the film (which totally creeped me out when I was a kid, yes).
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He has a few more books according to his Wikipedia entry.
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Read it when I was a kid, and I'm pretty sure it screwed me up, so yeah. Great book.
I just wanted to say that reading those two lines still makes me laugh out loud.
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(and that Auden bit about "the woods have come and are standing round/in deadly crescent" terrified me for years. I'm not quoting the rest of it!)
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That's hysterical. I love the idea of the teacher carefully selecting these meaningful poems, and unintentionally giving you severe rabbit flashbacks.
(and that Auden bit about "the woods have come and are standing round/in deadly crescent" terrified me for years. I'm not quoting the rest of it!)
Wait, where is that part? Further in, toward the end? I either haven't reached it yet, or it clearly didn't lock into the same scary part of my reptile mind as it did for you.
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