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4 days ago · Part One, Chapter 1: The Noticeboard Adams includes footnotes at the end of each chapter, explaining key terms in the world of the rabbits. Fiver's name: 1. Rabbits can count up to four. Any ...
- 10 min
- Ben Ackland
So I want to know about your favourite book creatures that are not the human characters. I have two that I want to mention. The first is a creature from the second Stormlight novel and beyond. He's called Pattern and he's hilarious. The funny things that he takes so literally. The fact that dispite seeming like a weirdo, where e's from, he's ...
23 hours ago · The rabbits discover that they are not alone...'Watership Down' by Richard Adams.
- 26 min
- Ben Ackland
1 day ago · One more way to slip in a prologue is to call it something else. The story, Watership Down, comes to mind. The mythology of the black rabbit was important to the context of parts of the story. In the movie version, this is told in a prologue sequence. The book itself just launches into the story and the mythology is worked into the narrative ...
23 hours ago · Ever read Watership Down by Richard Adams’s. You remind me of the group of rabbits that sold out for a rich life to get everything they wanted by allowing a farmer to feed them but butcher rabbits at his whim. I served in the military. I worked hard. Got a decent job when I got out.
1 day ago · “I didn’t want my animals to speak like little humans like the rabbits in Watership Down. I couldn’t make them completely animal, but I wanted the book to be true to the brutal reality of their lives and not romanticise them at all.” And he certainly doesn’t romanticise the lives of the dogs.
