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Like the author of the article, I also don't think of WD as an allegory but a story about rabbits. It is one of the first books I read that really pulled me int
by itronitron 9y ago
Like the author of the article, I also don't think of WD as an allegory but a story about rabbits. It is one of the first books I read that really pulled me into another world. Later I read 'Plague Dogs' which is a different animal and a bit perplexing.
- JoeDaDude 9y agoLike Watership Down, Plague Dogs was made into an animated film, which can be found available on the intertubes. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084509/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084509/
- benjohnson 9y agoWarning: The Plague Dogs film is so viscerally traumatic that even if you're an adult the imagery can travel back in time and ruin your own childhood.
- indigochill 9y agoMan, I had nightmares from the Watership Down movie as a kid. Now I feel like I have to watch Plague Dogs just to balance things out.
- lmm 9y agoI read Animal Farm twice, once as a child reading a story about animals, once as an adult reading it as allegory. I enjoyed it a lot more the first time.
- briga 9y agoThe Plague Dogs has got to be the most depressing books I've ever read--almost sadistically so. The sucker-punch ending isn't eased any by the last minute deus ex machina either, it's just plain bleak from beginning to end.