[ SECRET POST #4142 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4142 ⌋

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

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

There was no one like Richard Adams when it came to beating the whimsy out of books about bunnies and puppies.

[(Anonymous)]

I read Watership Down as a kid and loved it and immediately went to read Adams' other books. First one I picked up was The Plague Dogs and it was so fucking depressing I couldn't finish it.

[(Anonymous)]

If you think the Plague Dogs book is bad, the movie actually managed to be /worse/ (the book ends happily. The movie does not).

[(Anonymous)]

D:

[(Anonymous)]

The movie ends the way Adams wanted the book to end. Which made me miserable all over again reading that because I really like Snitter and Rowf.

Though a part of me understands why he wanted the book to end that way, I'd rather have the dogs have a chance at happiness and hope.

Then again, there's the novel, _The Artist_ about a man and a quasi-abused dog he winds up rescuing that tears me apart just as much as thinking about _The Plague Dogs_.

[rosehiptea]

I liked Watership Down (can't remember how old I was when I read it) but I couldn't finish The Plague Dogs either. I couldn't stand seeing the dogs suffer like that.

Although I'll admit some of my enjoyment of Watership Down has been, er, watered down after someone made fun of its treatment of females in The View from Saturday, which is a YA book as far as I can tell.

[(Anonymous)]

Have you read Tales From Watership Down, which is a companion (not sequel) to the original? There's more focus on the female rabbits in that one. Then too, they're still animals, whose biology makes their "society" different than humans.

[rosehiptea]

I haven't read that. I might check it out. Thanks!

[(Anonymous)]

I've spent 20 years struggling to repress all memory of having read The Plague Dogs.

Damnit.