RIP Richard Adams

[Extollager]

Black Gate » Articles » Richard Adams, May 9, 1920 – December 24, 2016

I wrote him three fan letters (Shardik, Plague Dogs, Girl in a Swing) and he wrote back every time. What a gentleman.

 

[Pyan]

RIP.

I honour him for the two animal books (Plague Dogs, and Watership Down) that I have on the shelf still. I do hope he'll be remembered for more than that animated version of WD...

 

[aThenian]

Have just finished rereading Watership Down - many years since I'd read it, and found it still a wonderful book. RIP.

 

[anno]

Struggled with rabbits,loved the bear,superb writer IMHO...

 

[Steve S]

Watership Down was my favourite book as a child, and when I re-read it as an adult I found it just as compelling. Richard Adams wrote some other wonderful books too, and I'm sure he'll be well remembered.

 

[Vince W]

I loved Watership Down as a child. Sadly I never went any further with his books. More fool me. RIP.

 

[rai]

Richard Adams, Watership Down author, dies aged 96

Author one of my favorite books 'Watership Down" that book I always recommend to people as one of the greatest books.

sorry was already posted.

 

[rai]

loved Watership and Plague Dogs.

 

[Stephen Palmer]

RIP a very brilliant (if idiosyncratic) author…

Watership Down and The Plague Dogs are both wonderful, but Shardik - which RA thought his best work - is also wonderful, as is The Girl In A Swing. After that, he seemed to go into a bit of a decline… But Watership Down will stand the test of time.

 

[dask]

Missed this somehow. Sad news is sad news no matter how old it is.