[ SECRET POST #3415 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3415 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[fscom]

03. http://i66.tinypic.com/23u9csl.jpg

[(Anonymous)]

It is about rabbits but I guarantee it is darker and more fucked up than you thought, when you assumed it was about submarines.

fuck that book

[(Anonymous)]

Oh god yes. I actually actively hate it. And I don't hate books on priciple, it's just FUCK THAT AUTHOR and burn that shit.

[(Anonymous)]

But have you read it, OP? Fantastic book.

[(Anonymous)]

I couldn't even make it halfway through the book. It's so FUCKING LONG. And I don't knock long books, but it's not even super interesting most of the time.

How am I supposed to be upset by all of this traumatic storytelling if I can't get into it?!

[ketita]

Wow, I just checked, and it's almost 500 pages O_O I somehow remembered it being shorter (then again, I devoured the book, so there's that).

[(Anonymous)]

I remember taking it to the beach with me on vacation (great beach read!!!! good idea me!!!!) and devouring the first third and then like, once they got to that second rabbit warren things just slowed to a halt. I was disappointed.

[ceebeegee]

Well, it's an epic journey, of course it's gonna be long. Very worth it though. How many stories feature doomed lapine muses singing odes to the shining wire that kills them?

[(Anonymous)]

It's one of my favorite books and I can't imagine finding it boring, but... maybe try the animated movie instead to get the gist of it.

[(Anonymous)]

It's a great, odd, depressing book about (non-anthro) rabbits fighting for survival, finding a home, facing all the real things that kill rabbits. There's some weird rabbit religion thrown in. It's unique.

[diet_poison]

Rabbits are not what I would have guessed. hmm

[(Anonymous)]

I thought it was about submarines too. Or a shipwreck.

[(Anonymous)]

If you want the emotional scarring without the pages, go for the animation. So beautiful, stunning music, wholly traumatic for children of all ages.

[(Anonymous)]

It's walking dead season 3 without the zombies. Like, really, Governor is general woundwort, Rick is hazel, efrafa is Woodbury. Watership Down freaked me out much more tho because gnarly rabbit religion and so much blood and death. Like, the rabbit life is a hard one. Great novel!

[(Anonymous)]

Well, some of us loved it. I remember when I reached the end thinking that I would never again read a book as good as this.

[(Anonymous)]

You know, people always talk about how traumatizing that book was, but it always seemed pretty normal to me. It's like, have you read animal fiction? Like, read some Jack London, man. They're always pretty brutal.

Or yeah, the Woodstock Saga by Michael Tod. That had like freaking squirrel incest. Then there was that book about deer... I used to read a lot of animal stories, and like, they have SO much more death than books about humans, I swear. Even Redwall has a lot of killing, I mean (though I wouldn't really count that one, since they're so anthropomorphized and even wear clothing and such. They're basically humans). I read Animal Farm when I was like 12, too. I think a lot of kids read that in middle school, don't they?

Watership Down just seems to be very in line with the sort of genre it's a part of. Maybe modern children's lit is really toned-down and censored or something? Idk, I think I was like 8 when I read it, and I thought it was awesome. Kids love gore and violence. Look at fairy tales. Then again, as a child I was all about reading the original stuff. The modern versions are boring by comparison...

[(Anonymous)]

I think it's probably more traumatic as an animated film?

[(Anonymous)]

I think a lot of older people only care about whether something is "dark" or not, and then declare it to be "traumatic." I hardly see any other comments about some media (like fairy tales - try to find someone talking about them, and not just focusing on which ones are "dark" and which versions are darker than others, and so on). I did not care about this kind of stuff when I was a kid. I just liked any good story that kept my interest, and it didn't matter if it was more "dark" or not dark enough, or whatever.

[tabaqui]

Yeah, it seemed fine to me when I read it - i mean, animals die, it happens.

[(Anonymous)]

The animals are anthropomorphized. For all intents and purposes, you are reading about people.

[tabaqui]

No, i'm reading about animals. You might be reading about people, but i was not. A rabbit is snatched by a fox and they say 'poor thing' and she's basically forgotten by the end of the chapter.

Not people.

[(Anonymous)]

you can experience it however you like, I suppose, but it's absolutely stupid to make a "LOL They're animals they always die why people so upset!" argument when we're talking about speaking, thinking, intelligent characters. you're wrong to judge either way, and frankly I think it's a little weird that you're unable to make that connect yourself.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, i'm pretty sure the appeal of that genre is the fact that it's generally more dangerous to be a rabbit, horse, wolf than being a human. I certainly don't need to be worry about getting shot by a farmer unless I've really upset him.

Everybody makes that mistake, though?

[(Anonymous)]

I like the linguistics, I guess. Never finished it.

[tabaqui]

SUCH an amazing, amazing book. I re-read it about once a year. Love it.