Watership Down
For years the only thing I knew about Watership Down was that it had rabbits. I'd seen it referred to here and there as "the rabbit book", but I never heard any more details. This, coupled with the fact that most people seemed to really enjoy it convinced me that I should eventually read it. I went into it expecting a children's book. And while the plot is pretty straight-forward and the language at a basic level, this book was way longer than I was expecting from something written for a younger audience. I'm a little surprised it wasn't, or hasn't been, broken up into several installments. Watership Down follows a group of rabbits on their search for a new home after their old one is destroyed to make way for some sort of development. They have adventures along the way and actually end up finding a likely spot much more quickly than I expected. But then they run into other problems. Mainly that they'll never really survive if they don't get...