Watership Down - Richard Adams

Written by Richard Adams
Format: MP3
Unabridged

Richard Adams channels his inner Tolkein to create culture, language, and mythology for the characters of this novel. And the fact that most the characters are rabbits only enhances this spellbinding tale of exiled journeying to find a new home.
Adams does so much more than simply anthropomorphize his characters to make the story accessible. As opposed to some ‘talking’ animal stories, you will never forget for one moment that the characters are rabbits because they deal with strictly rabbit problems. Obviously Adams takes some liberties with the boundaries of animal behavior - especially in the way one enemy group is organized - but it in no way detracts from the atmosphere and themes of the novel.
Adams balances on the edge of a keen blade in representing his characters as rabbits living a rabbits Life and the conflict, dramas, and relationships that make for an entertaining story. In fact, he dances a tarantella, a waltz, and a tango with some folk dancing thrown in for flavor and all while engraving an intricate mythology in to the razors edge on which he dances.
You are saying - ’stop exaggerating’ or
‘if you build it up it will only be a letdown’
But I can assure you the florid metaphors are accurate to the authors skill and the stories power. I have read -Watership Down - at least once a year since I was sixteen and it has never let me down. You should listen to it at least once and see just how far it can pick you up.