Is Watership Down all right?

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(Hrududu is my favourite word from the whole book. What else would a rabbit call a car? :D)
*Hrududu *is fun to say, but the word I am known to use in real life is *hrair *“a thousand; an uncountable number; any number bigger than four” 😃

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Hoy, hoy u embleer hrair…

One of my favorite fantasy books in my late teens: nothing problematic that I could see, it’s like a grown-up answer to “The Wind in the Willows” or other stories with talking animals. Maybe Fiver’s prophetic dreams might be off-putting to some, but think of Joseph in the Old Testament interpreting Pharaoh’s dream. Richard Adams actually observed and researched the behavior and habits of wild rabbits when he was writing it; he even worked in some interesting things about rabbit physiology (for instance, did you know that if a rabbit warren is overcrowded, that the bodies of pregnant rabbit does {females} will reabsorb their developing embryos? Adams used this as the inspiration for a poignant song of a despondent doe)
 
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