5/26/2023 0 Comments Watership down full bookIt was also, yet again, another complex and beautiful piece of writing crammed with detail and great descriptive power that entranced you making you read it over and over finding more and more detail in the twisting and turning narrative. Shardik was a tale of religion and icons and possibly the great mother Russia and maybe of a christ like soul wandering around patchwork collapsing empire with the bear being a god like creature. I used to also love the follow up, Shardik, as well and still have battered versions of both books lying around full of ripped pages and added notes written in crap biros. It remains gripping and full of the dank atmosphere of the fast disappearing British countryside of hedgerows and owls and manic seabirds and lost rabbits and adventures just beyond the bottom of your back garden and has become one of the great British books. He had told the story to his two daughters on a journey back by car and then expanded it into a book that has become a timeless classic that may be full of metaphors for the human condition or may just be great tale that somehow makes the rabbits seem fleshed out and real but not like mini furry people.
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