This was a book club pick. It won the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Award for Children's Literature back in the '70s. I read it in 1982 and loved it. Didn't enjoy it this time as much. Richard Adams claims it has no allegorical meaning. Yeah right. He presents several different bunny societies, operating under differing governing philosophies with varied results and expects us not to look for a message?Trivia: Adams wrote the novel based on stories he made up and told to his kids to pass the time during car trips.
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Scooter -- I'm missing your books in the list. Boycotting for a reason?
Just being lazy. I did post about Lone Survivor. I'll try to do better. Part of the problem is that I'm in the middle (ok, first quarter) of a big self-improvement slog through, gulp, Herodotus.
No message? Nuts. Even as a dopey 18 or 19 year old when I read it, I saw the messages. Tried to read his Plague Dogs later and couldn't.
Yeeeesh for Herodotus. And I was thinking of learning what to do with tofu for a self-improvement project. . .
Don't know Plague Dogs, but I guess I'm not missing anything.
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