Watership Down by Richard Adams is another novel that I have heard of by word of mouth. This isn’t exactly true though. I mostly think of this book as the “sad bunny story.” This is the state of my knowledge going into this book; that and the fact that a lot of people seem to have read and reviewed this particular book. I think there was a film adaptation, but I never watched it. This particular copy has a Sparknotes Reader’s Companion built into it, so if I am confused about something, I can go and read up in that.

Basically, this man, Richard Adams, took knowledge from a compendium about rabbits and wrote a compelling story about it. The massive warren that the rabbits occupy and the field that it is located at is going to be paved over and developed into condominiums or some other type of land development. So the Seer Bunny has a feeling that horrid things are coming and this spurs him to tell his brother of it. This sparks an epic adventure to establish a new warren with the ones that went along.

Throughout the novel, they find different bunny governments; bunny socialism, bunny totalitarianism, and bunny democracy. The ending is pretty good too. ( )