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Have to recommend this one, just because it has been one of my favorites for about 45 years.

This book has it all, heroes, villains, loyalty, espionage, action and even true. Also it has such incredible characters and dialogue.

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[–] Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 18 points 5 months ago (1 children)

All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a thousand enemies. And when they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you.

[–] IWW4@lemmy.zip 9 points 5 months ago

Digger, listener, runner, prince with a swift warning.

[–] Taiatari@lemmynsfw.com 16 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I saw the movie as a kid and I am still traumatised.

[–] Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Same, but I also somehow recognized that it was actually a great movie. Looking back it probably had a significant effect on me. Never did go back and watch it as an adult though.

[–] AlexLost@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

Animation and story are both amazing. Traumatizing for a child, I first saw it at 8yrs old I think, but it stayed with me none the less. I have watched it a couple times as an adult, holds up well.

[–] IWW4@lemmy.zip 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I have heard that a lot the years. Was it Woundwort’s violence or Garfunkel’s song that traumatized you?:P

[–] Saucepain@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

For me it was the wire trap.

[–] DreadPirateShawn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Silflay hraka, u embleer rah!

[–] IWW4@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 months ago

Hehe perfect

[–] other_cat@lemmy.zip 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Slowly getting through this in audiobook form (I tend to only listen when I'm doing chores or something, hence slowly.)

Really enjoying it a lot!

[–] IWW4@lemmy.zip 4 points 5 months ago

That narrator is great

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This is also one of my favourites. It was one of the first big books I read by myself and is probably one of the reasons i still read to this day. Ive read it since and seen the movies, it still holds up and bigwig is still a legend.

I tried to get my hands on some of the original artwork but the ones I liked were to expensive.

[–] IWW4@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 months ago

Same like Lord of The Rings, I have read Watership Down in it entirety many times and parts of it even more.

[–] antlion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I read this book in January, it just kind of fell into my hands. I think it’s a fun perspective to imagine rabbits being somewhat conscious as humans.

[–] tamal3@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

They are conscious beings, but still rabbits, which is what I love so much and which sticks the book in the sci-fi genre for me. It's been a few years since I read jt, but that moment when they were crossing the river and one of the very basic rabbits couldn't even remember the crossing not 1 minute later because it was so outside their rabbity existence... Mwah! So good!

Every time I see a rabbit in the evening I think about their siflay.

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 months ago

Adams also wrote some short stories set in the same universe, but they weren't as good as the original book.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tales_from_Watership_Down

[–] AlexLost@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

He's got some great books. Shardik? Is that the other one with the bear?

[–] IWW4@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I have only read Watership and some of Shardik. Shardik was just bad.

[–] AlexLost@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

That's fair. The beautiful thing about art is we all get something different from it.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 points 5 months ago

Discovered this in high school.

I think Animalympics is better, tbh.

[–] Karl@programming.dev 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Hey, was this book perhaps mentioned in The Stand by Stephen King?

[–] IWW4@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 months ago

It sure was