Its a long book. I've read it several times and own it. I had a library copy to read that my grade school librarian recommended to me. I read the book every night and placed it in the same spot on my bedside table. Until one day... I look for disappeared book everywhere, no one sees it, no one has it, I'm blamed for misplacing it. I have to do the walk of shame and tell the librarian I lost the book that was recommended to me. I had to pay a fine to replace it in the library. Middle of summer, schools over for the year, sibling strolls by and gives me the book because sibling was finally finished reading it and gives me the lame excuse that the book was sitting there every day and I wasn't reading it so shut up etc. I still have that same hard cover library book Watership Down (finally got to finish it when it came back).