i’ve previously been resistant to the charges of sexism but it’s very hard to ignore this time around exactly how much the does are treated as a plot device with very little recognised inner life. Must give it four stars though, and really it’s closer to three-and-a-half. how else to interpret silflay hraka, u embleer rah? i know that must sound strange given its reputation for brutality & childhood trauma. much more hopeful than the film, though! right down to a completely different rabbit at the end! changes the whole meaning! in fact i never see acknowledged how much of a crowd-pleaser the whole thing is. and of course they must be extraordinarily courageous, for this book more than any other i’ve read is a desperate bid to come to terms with death it’s never morbid but still soaked in that ( embleer?) smell. but then also-look at bigwig! look how like every other rabbit he is so grandly heroic! i love these rabbits-i love their extraordinary courage in the face of so much danger, all in order to help keep one another safe.

i did expect to love hazel all the more, and of course i did he’s the kindest bravest strongest sweetest of course john hurt would eventually voice him. on this reread i expected less of that affinity, but no, it just sublimated to moral conviction in all his fragility. When i was young i was overprotective of fiver for much the same reasons i adored kari kamiya. But I have to admit that I couldn't understand what were the white sticks that people carried until I listened to the explanation in a podcast. I also liked that he invented the names of the things the rabbits might use. He includes a lot of scientific facts about rabbits and some of them were new to me. It's obvious that Adams did a lot of research to write this book. Humans, however, can kill one another for a whole bunch of other unjustified reasons. For example, he says that the animals only hunt when they really need to eat, otherwise they can just walk past their usual prey. And I liked how Adams showed how much more innocence there is in the animal world (as opposed to the human world). I liked that rabbits have their rules, and their organization, something that reminded religion, but at the same time they were not too humanized. The reader pulled off each one of the characters and thus added to the impressiveness of the story. I also have to mention that I was fascinated by the Russian audio version of it. I was feeling immersed in cosiness while listening to it. I enjoyed reading about the unity, friendship and true care among the main heroes of the story. Although it's a book for children, adults can find some interesting thoughts in it for sure. They all are different and base their leadership on different foundations. We get to know a few leaders in this story. A story about rabbits which definitely gives some insight into leadership.

Watership down by richard adams