02-26-2005, 12:56 PM | #1 |
The Evil One
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: here, on the moot
Posts: 804
|
Watership Down
I was just wondering if any of you have read this. It's now one of my favorite books, i saw the movie when my sister read it and i know hte actor who did the voice of Kehaar! I took a quiz online, i would be Blackberry, but quizes can be unreliable. My favorite character is Bigwig!
__________________
GO RED SOX Evanescence, Green Day, Weezer, the Click Five, Train...The best song artists and singers ever! You laugh cuz i'm different, i laugh cuz ur all the same!!! |
02-26-2005, 03:03 PM | #2 |
Honourary Elitist Inklette
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: between the mountains and the sea
Posts: 704
|
I never knew that there was a movie for the book! I read it out of curiousity, and was very happy I had...Books of this type are often required reading for school, and even though I read it just because I felt like reading, I was still skeptical at the begining.
I don't remember now, but isn't there a sequal or something? |
03-01-2005, 06:52 PM | #3 | |
The Evil One
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: here, on the moot
Posts: 804
|
Quote:
__________________
GO RED SOX Evanescence, Green Day, Weezer, the Click Five, Train...The best song artists and singers ever! You laugh cuz i'm different, i laugh cuz ur all the same!!! |
|
03-01-2005, 07:26 PM | #4 |
Elf Lord
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Durham, England
Posts: 694
|
It's a great book. I loved it as a kid and the animated film is very good and quite faithful to the book. Later in life I lived in Overton for a few years (it's shown on the map in the book) and quite often used to drive on the Kingsclere Road north of the Down or along the Test where the boat took them after the escape from Efrafa. I played in the local quiz league and met the author, Richard Adams, who was playing for the The Bell in Whitchurch at the time.
Now my kids love it - especially Kehaar! There was never a sequel - though Adams' later books Shardik (about a polar bear I think?) and The Plague Dogs were referred to as his 'follow up to Watership Down' I think.
__________________
I'm beset by self-doubt ....or am I? |
03-01-2005, 07:32 PM | #5 |
The Dude
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: at the altar of my ego
Posts: 1,685
|
such a brilliant story, Bigwig was great but to me it was all about Hazel...
excellent book, and an excellent movie...
__________________
Ill heal your wounds, ill set you free, |
03-01-2005, 09:16 PM | #6 | |
Honourary Elitist Inklette
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: between the mountains and the sea
Posts: 704
|
Quote:
Watership Up....funny! (but there is no geographical feature such as an "Up"...) |
|
03-02-2005, 07:48 PM | #7 |
The Evil One
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: here, on the moot
Posts: 804
|
Oh well - i guess there is no geographical 'Up', but maybe it's about a mountain or something. Any way - can't remember who wrote firebringer, but it bears some resemleance to Watership down, but it's about deer, specifically one deer with a oak leaf on his forehead who's traveling ot do something like fulfill his prophecy, but i read it ages ago, so i can't remember. Cheers!
__________________
GO RED SOX Evanescence, Green Day, Weezer, the Click Five, Train...The best song artists and singers ever! You laugh cuz i'm different, i laugh cuz ur all the same!!! |
03-03-2005, 08:21 PM | #8 |
Elven Warrior
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: The Library, may it live forever!!!
Posts: 269
|
I love this book! I think I started reading it because I had liked the Redwall books so much. Vastly different. Both very good.
__________________
"Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much." ~Oscar Wilde "Don't tell lies you can't keep." ~My little sister... |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
Your greatest ambition in life? | Blackboar | General Messages | 64 | 02-14-2003 08:44 AM |
Watership Down | Theodred21 | General Literature | 34 | 08-02-2002 10:44 AM |