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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
Out of curiosity... what age were you when it was assigned? I wasn't thrilled with the novel (much to the dismay of all my classmates) at the time, either. But not because of it's length or tediousness; anthropomorphism just always rubbed me the wrong way. Even as a child (though I didn't know the term for it until much later).
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Oh, don't get me wrong. I could bang on all day about those damn rabbits. It was like Winnie the Pooh trying to be ultra-deep. Ugh. You could knock 300 pages off it, but I don't think it would make the story good - just less crazy-making.
I think I was 16 at the time? I enjoyed some of the other stuff most of my peers hated - including some of the stuff on that list. But Watership Down made me want to tear my face off.