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Posted Feb 19, 2000 by Ormondroyd
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  | | In interview after interview, Richard Adams has expressed ferociously reactionary views, particularly on matters relating to sex and the family. I remember reading one a few month back in which he was ranting on about how important it was for women to be "chaste" and how he believed and desperately hoped that his daughters were "chaste". In other words, he's terrified of female sexuality. Ironic that a bloke like that should be best known for a book about rabbits, given that the rabbit is not an animal noted for its "chastity" - but there it is.
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| | | Subject: Watership down
Posted Feb 19, 2000 by Mike A (snowblind)
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| | Seriously not what I expect from that old man. I suppose I wouldn't want to be confused with him. He's not pro-nazi or that, just slightly backwards.
What I didn't get is that after WD was published and fans were demanding a sequel he seemed to want to put the whole thing to pot. Like as if he wasn't proud of it  .
I found out that he didn't get the title he wantedd for the book. He wanted it to be called Hazel And Fiver, but the publisher chose Watership Down. The people on the WD mailing list said "so his title sucked, but there must have been a reason for him wanting it".
(my words not theirs)
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| | | Subject: Watership down
Posted Feb 19, 2000 by Mike A (snowblind)
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| | I used to be a massive fan of the film and book, before I discovered The Secret Of NIMH. This new revelation hasn't clouded my opinions of anything.
The cartoon series was very disappointing, in my eyes. Yeah it's aimed at children, but why oh why couldn't they have stuck to the original plot a bit more?
But as I've always said, it had a great cast too. I just didn't watch too much of it as it made me cringe.
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| | | Subject: Watership down
Posted Oct 27, 2003 by Ormondroyd
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| | I totally agree with you. Nobody's perfect, and I appreciate the work of many creative people whose company I don't think I'd enjoy very much. But having enjoyed 'Watership Down', it was a shock and a disappointment to discover that Richard Adams held such drastically reactionary right-wing views. Those views don't seem to be manifested in the book, so I agree that Adams' outlook doesn't make 'Watership Down' a bad book.  
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