Reddit reviews Watership Down: A Novel

Hey! Loved Redwall and the other associated stories when I was growing up. I was an avid fan and owned the first 10ish, but the quality of story went down as more came out. :(

Now the real trick is figuring out what you're asking, so I'll take a few stabs. If there is a specific aspect about Redwall you really want to reflect in your new reads let me know and I'll expand the selection. :)

Like Redwall as in intelligent animals:

Light On Shattered Water:
Human finds himself in an alternate dimension where cats evolved instead of humans. I first read in around 2000, and last read it again this year, still very enjoyable.

The Chanur Saga:
Anthropomorphic cat aliens. Pretty decent adventure, though the tech is a little silly but not bad considering it was written in the 80s.

Watership Down:
Rabbits in England trying to live their life. And adventure type stuff happens. A classic for very good reason.

Like Redwall for epic adventure and battles

Malazan Book of the Fallen:
Epic in every way. Hands down my favorite book series. Never has any other book given such a sense of scale to the world. Everything has a history, and Erikson writes in a way that you want to know more, about it all.

His Majesty's Dragon:
I originally only picked up this book because the summary sounded like a joke. Napoleonic era England, insert dragons as the aerial corps. I brought it with to work, read it on my breaks and lunch, and after getting off at 9pm ended up staying at wprl until 5 am to finish it and the second book in the series.

This isn't a "must read list", but going off your list, I think you would enjoy:

• Patrick Rothfuss's The Name of the Wind
  
• Greg Mortenson's Three cups of tea
  
• Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner
  
• Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita
  
• Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time
  
• Richard Adams's Watership Down
  
  If you are looking for books to expand your literary chops on, I think blackstar9000 made a very good list.
  
  For my recommendations on getting out of your element try these:
  
  
• Niccolò Machiavelli's The Prince
  
• Naomi Klien's Shock Doctrine
  
• Brian K. Vaughan & Pia Guerra's Y: The Last Man
  
• Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
  

You've likely read most of these, but here are a few suggestions:

• The Space Trilogy - C.S. Lewis. Underappreciated works by Lewis - in many ways Narnia for adults. These books are a work of supposition. What if there is intelligent life on other planets that have not fallen into sin? What would that look like?
  
• Watership Down - Richard Adams. This is a book about rabbits. Not anthropomorphized rabbits, but rabbit rabbits with their own language and mythology, who care about and experience the things rabbits experience. It doesn't sound like it should work, but it is utterly captivating.
  
• Dune - Frank Herbert. A captivating epic in a richly detailed universe. Themes of politics, religion, and technology iterweave in a fascinating tale.
  
• Ender's Game, Speaker for the Dead, and Xenocide - Orson Scott Card. The tale of a child trained to be the commander of earth's defenses against alien bugs. The sequels feature the same character but in an utterly different tale. The books are very different but both one of my favorites. The recent movie didn't do it justice.
  
• The Moon is a Harsh Mistress - Robert A. Heinlein. Heinlein is a genius, but his books often disappoint me halfway through. This one doesn't. My favorite of his works.
  
• The Mote In God's Eye - Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. After colonizing the hundreds of stars, mankind finally makes contact with an intelligent alien race for the first time. They are utterly foreign and seemingly benign, but with a dangerous secret.
  
  I can recommend others if you've already hit all of those already.

The genre is somewhat over-done:

Watership Down: A Novel
https://www.amazon.com/Watership-Down-Novel-Richard-Adams/dp/0743277708

Pat the Bunny (Touch and Feel Book)
https://www.amazon.com/Pat-Bunny-Touch-Feel-Book/dp/0307120007

The Tale of The Flopsy Bunnies
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tale_of_the_Flopsy_Bunnies

Two more:

Watership Down - http://www.amazon.com/Watership-Down-Novel-Richard-Adams/dp/0743277708

Dragons of Pern series - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragonflight

Now, there is sex in that book, but it's extremely brief and not graphic at ALL. It's implied and over. And it's not bad sex. It's the start of a life long pair bond.

Watership Down by Richard Adams. I have a tattoo on my body because of this book. How is that for some nerd shit!

Ich lese momentan kaum deutsche Bücher, aber in der Hinsicht identifiziere ich mich als Verehrer von Schiller, Hesse und Max Frisch. Blogs verfolge ich keine regelmäßig.

Das Buch des letzten Jahres: Moby Dick

Ehrenhafte Vermerkung: The Reluctant Fundamentalist von Mohsin Hamid

Als nächstes auf der Liste: Watership Down vom kürzlich verstorbenen Richard Adams. Hat da jemand Erfahrungen?

Watership down I would have to say is a great book! It is the story o a runt rabbit who wants to move away from his warren and start anew, and he encounters trials along the way. The book is around 55 chapters and has an animated movie and tv show series to go with it! Its a really interesting read.

I loved reading as a kid and I still do! It was never a problem for me to meet the reading requirements in elementary school. Here are a few books I enjoyed when younger:

• The Wednesday Witch
  
  
• Catwings
  
  
• A Wrinkle In Time
  
  
• Watership Down
  
  I also had a large number of Berenstain Bears, Dr. Seuss, and Tintin books growing up. I returned to those many times! I'm going to guess that those last two books are a little too advanced for a five year old, but they're still really good reads (eventually).
  
  Get those kids some books!

You want to feel? Read Watership Down.

You can't handle the feels.

Beat the Reaper by Josh Bazell

gangster in witness protection gets discovered, takes badass revenge

Andromeda Strain or Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton

Jurassic park is dinos in a 'modern lost world' scenario and andromeda strain is alien bacteria creating zombie apocalypse without the zombies

Empire of the Ants by Bernard Werber

people get shrunk down and discover the empire of the ants

Watership Down by Richard Adams

animal farm with rabbits and australians

The Lies of Locke Lemora by Scott Lynch

adventure with magic and ocean's 11 style crime. Sometimes funny othertimes adventurous and sometimes badassery

Tunnel in the Sky by Heinlein (very adventure/survival thriller)

kids are getting their survival badges, shit gets real very quickly. Lord of the flies meets firefly

I mostly read speculative fiction, which is typically divided between the subgenres of fantasy, sci-fi, and alternate history. Alternate history is technically considered a subgenre of Sci-Fi, but I read enough of it to make it worth counting as a separate group. Within each of those subgenres, there is a wide variety of styles and some people might find themselves not a fan of one style but a fan of another. If you are not well read in these genres, then you will want to try a few different styles of story before dismissing it. I also sometimes read novelizations of historical events which have their own sort of enjoyment to them that fictional stories lack. Then there are books that are set from an animals point of view, which range from attempts to be as accurate as possible to being practically fantasy stories.

As far as individual books, I will try to give you a few of the best to pick from without being overwhelming. Some are stand alone stories while others are parts of series.

Fantasy single books:

After the Downfall

Fantasy series:

The Dresden Files

A Song of Ice and Fire aka Game of Thrones

Sci-Fi single books:

Slow Train to Arcturus

Mother of Demons

Sci-Fi series:

The Thrawn Trilogy There are a great many Star Wars books worth the read, but this is definitely the place to start.

Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow

Alternate History single books:

The Guns of the South

1824: The Arkansas War Technically this is a sequel to an earlier book, but this one is leagues better and you don't need to read the first book to understand what is going on.

Alternate History series:

How Few Remain

1632

Worldwar

Non-Fiction:

Band of Brothers

War Made New This one isn't even really a novelization, just an analysis of the changes to military technology, tactics, and training over the last 500 years. Regardless, it is very well written and a great read.

Animal POV books:

Watership Down

Wilderness Champion

The Call of the Wild and White Fang These two books are by the same author and go in pretty much opposite directions. Among literature fanatics, there is no consensus over which one is better and I don't think I can decide for myself so I am recommending both.

Edit: I forgot to mention, the first book in the 1632 series is available online for free. This is not a pirated version, but something the author put up himself as a part of an effort to move publishing into the modern day with technology and make books more accessible to readers.

Annnnd here we go again. I'm doing this with all books, just because.

Allegiant

Berenstain Bears

Calvin and Hobbes

Dune

Edgar Allen Poe collection

Fahrenheit 451

Gulliver's Travels

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

If You Give A Mouse A Cookie

Julie of the Wolves

Kite Runner

Little House on the Prairie

Machine of Death

Neverending Story

Omnitopia Dawn (The book I'm reading now, actually!)

Pilgrim's Progress

Quarter Share (Also available free as a podiobook!)

Room

Snow Crash

[Tell-Tale Brain](http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_0_9?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=tell-tale brain&sprefix=tell-tale%2Cstripbooks%2C222&rh=i%3Astripbooks%2Ck%3Atell-tale brain&ajr=2)

Uglies

Voyage of the Dawn Treader

Watership Down

Xenocide

Year Zero

Zen and the Art of Knitting

The Talisman-by Stephen King and Peter Straub. The authors then continued the story with a second book called Black House. http://www.amazon.com/The-Talisman-Novel-Stephen-King/dp/145169721X
An amazing fantasy adventure for any age. A good bridge for you as well. Other adventure fantasy type books that I felt were ageless, A Boys life- by Robert McCammon. http://www.amazon.com/Boys-Life-Robert-McCammon/dp/0671743058 Anything and everything Jack London. Read Stephen King short stories then move onto Edgar Allen Poe. To kill a mocking bird- by Harper Lee http://www.amazon.com/To-Kill-Mockingbird-Harper-Lee/dp/0446310786 A Watership Down- By Richard Adams http://www.amazon.com/Watership-Down-Novel-Richard-Adams/dp/0743277708 Of Mice And Men- by John Steinbeck http://www.amazon.com/Of-Mice-Men-John-Steinbeck/dp/0140177396
Then you may want to move on to another type of adventure.
Into the Wild- by Jon Krakauer. http://www.amazon.com/Into-Wild-Jon-Krakauer/dp/0385486804 Every book is a bridge to another and so on. I could name so many more, but each book will lead you to them.