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⌈ Secret Post #3616 ⌋

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Re: Book club - November discussion for Watership Down!!!

[(Anonymous)]

I re-read it for the first time in decades, and was surprised at how well it stood up. It was a big hit when it first came out and started off a genre of children's animal stories, but it's still the original and best. I love the rabbit's eye view of the world – both trying to explain concepts that would be outside their normal experience – and also literally seeing the world from a rabbit's viewpoint close to the ground. It's a way of getting out of my own experience, I guess.

I love the stories-within-stories construction. It works much better here than in some other books that have used that structure, though Ursula LeGuin comes close. I love the sharply-drawn characters (felt a bit sorry for other ranks Acorn, Speedwell and Hawkbit, though!) The does got less attention than I would have liked, though they obviously did their best to get out of Efrafa before our heroes came along. I've read the sequel, tales from Watership Down, and you get more of the does in that one.

My favourite character of all is Campion, surely the Rommel of the rabbit world, a thoroughly decent and highly competent fellow who eventually realises he's been on the wrong side – and survives to do something about it. You get more of his story in the sequel, and I'm fairly sure, from a line in that book, that he ends up where Hazel did.

So thank-you to whoever suggested it, I loved re-reading it – a mix of pure nostalgia and new appreciation of what the writer did.

Re: Book club - November discussion for Watership Down!!!

[diet_poison]

I'm glad to hear that Campion gets more development! And the does too :) I should read this.

Re: Book club - November discussion for Watership Down!!!

[tabaqui]

How did i not know there was as sequel? Campion was a marvelous character - I must seek it out! :)

(Top ten favorite book of all time.)

Re: Book club - November discussion for Watership Down!!!

[(Anonymous)]

Fellow Campion fan fistbump!

The sequel is a series of short stories, rather than a novel. I read it once, and don't remember it all that clearly, except that the issue of the does is addressed (zeitgeist of the times, it was published in the mid-90s) and also the theme of establishing more warrens as Watership gets more populated. I must re-read it.

Re: Book club - November discussion for Watership Down!!!

[tabaqui]

Cool. I'm going to put it on my book wishlist. :)