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rmc28'And what happened in the end?' asks the reader, who has followed Hazel and his comrades in all their adventures and returned with them at last to the warren where Fiver brought them from the fields of Sandleford.
[This post is part of my Watership Down read through. You are welcome to join in at any time; please read my introduction post first.]
[This post is part of my Watership Down read through. You are welcome to join in at any time; please read my introduction post first.]
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Date: 2016-08-31 21:19 (UTC)The tyrant becomes a feared legend, but the community leader gets an honoured place in the afterlife.
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Date: 2016-08-31 22:00 (UTC)I was unsure, at the beginning, of whether I had actually read Watership Down all the way through, recalling some of the first few chapters very vividly but being unable to remember what happened next. About half way through I became entirely sure I had never before finished it, and I'm still sure of that now. So I'm glad you encouraged me to read the whole thing at last; I enjoyed it a lot.
Also, it was very interesting to read a book in a way so very different from the way I normally do. Normally I'm a read-fast-and-reread type, prone to rush through a book the first time at great speed missing things, and then coming back for a leisurely reread or two (or three, or nineteen, depending how much I liked it) in which the desire to merely find out what happened next is no longer conflicting so much with the spotting of interesting things on the way there. In this readthrough I carefully didn't read ahead, so I experienced the story in a way that almost couldn't have been more different from my usual habit. (Not to mention, of course, the added dimension of sharing other readers' insights as we went along.) I don't know if it'll change my approach to reading in general, but it was – both literally and metaphorically – an interesting change of pace, and I may well seek out another opportunity or two to approach a book in this way.
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Date: 2016-09-01 17:15 (UTC)I found attempted-daily chapters much easier than attempted-weekly chapters, so if I ever do this kind of thing again (which I definitely won't for at least the next year), I will bear that in mind. I read fast enough that a chapter an evening is possible except when I am very tired, and in fact it usually took me longer to think of something to write about the chapter than it did to read it.
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Date: 2016-09-01 12:43 (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-09-01 17:25 (UTC)As I've said above to Simon, the experimental shift to attempted-daily rather than attempted-weekly worked much better for me, and I wish I'd spotted the similarity to my studying schedule sooner. (Studying also works much better for me if I attempt something every day rather than schedule in big-bang sessions once or twice a week.)
I think I found the Black Rabbit of Inlé scarier as an adult than I did as a child. I certainly found Chervil less likeable and more contemptible, and Woundwort more .. understandable perhaps, but not in a good way.
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Date: 2016-09-02 12:34 (UTC)