I loathe and despise Watership Down. I was sooo pissed off that I didn’t get a happy ending with the rabbits, that it’s been more than 30 years, and I still complain about not getting the ending I wanted.
Yeah, that book annoyed me, too. Almost made me give up rabbit hunting. ;-)
It did provide a lovely nickname that could be applied to a certain Marxist, Muslim interloper: u embleer-rah. Do you remember the translation?
Years ago, on an all-night shift with nothing to do, everyone was sitting around discussing favorite books. Watership Down came up and I mentioned that it was one of my favorites. A young guy said he had heard of it and wanted to read it. So I brought it in for him. A few days later he brought it back and said, "This is stupid. Rabbits can't talk!"
I always felt sorry for that guy...
“I didn’t get a happy ending with the rabbits, that it’s been more than 30 years, and I still complain...”
THANK YOU for that spoiler, now I shall never read that book.
You have saved me from useless angst, it is a mitzvah for you!