Monday, September 13th
6:30pm, meet in the front of TheBAG
Watership Down and Shardik
by
Richard Adams
Join the Bookshelf Book Club as they discuss these two timeless novels!
Description of Watership Down: Watership Down is a heroic fantasy novel about a small group of rabbits, written by English author Richard Adams. Although the animals in the story live in their natural environment, they are anthropomorphous, possessing their own culture, language, proverbs, poetry, and mythology. Evoking epic themes, the novel recounts the rabbits’ odyssey as they escape the destruction of their warren to seek a place in which to establish a new home, encountering perils and temptations along the way.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watership_Down)
Description of Shardik: Shardik was Adams’s 1974 follow-up to his phenomenally popular debut, Watership Down. The title character is a gigantic bear who is the god of the primitive Ortelgan people. The hunter Kelderek becomes Shardik’s greatest disciple and, eventually, ruler when the bear finally does make its return. On the surface, the book works as a fantasy adventure; on a deeper level, it explores our relationship with the divine. No matter what you want to see in it, Shardik is a good read.
(http://www.amazon.com/Shardik-Richard-Adams/dp/1585671827)
*The Bookshelf Book Club meets on the first Monday of every month, with the exception of September (in observance of Labor Day)*