Watership Down the story was "nothing like that at all." Adams said that the rabbits in Watership Down did not worship, however, "they believed passionately in El-ahrairah". Adams explained that he meant the book to be, "only a made-up story... in no sense an allegory or parable or any kind of political myth. I simply wrote down a story I told to my little girls". Instead, he explained, the "let-in" religious stories of El-ahrairah were meant more as legendary tales, similar to a rabbit Robin Hood, and that these stories were interspersed throughout the book as humorous interjections to the often "grim"
Richard: A Novel these things far more memorably and distinctively himself, most notably on his final album with the Manics, "The Holy Bible"...Set against this existing body of work, the task Myers has set himself seems somewhat pointless...it is hard to escape the feeling that this is less a novel than a music biography written in the first and second person.” When issued as a mass market paperback in October 2011 "Richard" received a much more positive review in "The Guardian". Richard: A Novel Richard: A Novel is a book by English author and journalist Ben Myers about musician Richey Edwards. Edwards, who