Thread: Watership Down

Oh, God. I saw the animated movie when I was way too young...just thinking about it makes me want to curl up into a ball. My parents thought it was okay for kids, since it was a cartoon.

It's my favorite book. I read it first when I was eight, and four more times over long periods. I'm looking to read it again but I can't find it anywhere.

There was a TV series too, it was like a extended more cutting edge version of the movie - General Woundwort was a much more evil looking dark bunny, with a beard.

I read this book a few months ago and loved it. My friend read it before I did and recommended it to me. It was funny hearing her describe it though, because she would point at the cover and say, "Watership Down. It sounds like it'd be about a boat or something. But no. It's about bunnies."

This was my favourite book for many years, until overfamiliarity allowed other great novels to rub shoulders with it in my mind. Don't watch the film- it's in second place to your imagination, and after watching the film you will have images of the cartoon characters in your mind instead of what your own imagination will create.

I disagree, although I saw the film when it originally came out and then read the book a number of years later. I think they're both brilliant. The film's animation is really quite different from your typical animated movie, and I think it did a good job of capturing the mood of the book. And really, you could make the same criticism of any film adaptation of a novel - that you'll see the film characters in your head when reading the book. I think that really depends on the reader.