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product_id: 11108664
title: "Shardik"
brand: "richard adams"
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# Shardik

**Brand:** richard adams
**Price:** $U2659
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

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- **What is this?** Shardik by richard adams
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## Description

Shardik

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    An enduring, emotional saga of faith and humanity
  

*by R***N on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 12, 2021*

Richard Adams certainly embarked on a long journey with Shardik. He discusses all the effects of religious faith and loyalty and the endurance of the human spirit as well as the awesome power in the spirit of all living things, bears included. It is a long read, chock full of pensive, engaging descriptive narrative. It can be a bit hard to keep yourself glued to the page, but if you stick with it, you'll gain in understanding and begin to feel the connection with life that the book describes. This edition is full of typos and really needs editing. It sometimes almost feels like an unedited translation, but in most cases, you get used to the misspellings and can muddle through. It's a sad, but joyful read with honest characters you will come to love or fear.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Richard Adams best work, in my opinion.
  

*by M***S on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 11, 2015*

Let me begin by saying that Richard Adams is my absolute favorite author, so this review may trend on the biased side. My top favorite book is "Watership Down", but this novel may actually be better than that. At the heart of the book is the main character, Kelderek, who while hunting sees a gigantic bear and perceives him to be the embodiment of the power of God manifested, Shardik. Thus begins a long odyssey for Kelderek in which he rises to the heights of power as priest/king of Bekla (the world where the story takes place) and falls to the lowest of lows as he learns exactly what his reign has wrought (mainly child slavery) and in how he begins to feel that he has betrayed his God, Shardik. Many powerful and thrilling moments occur throughout the story, and more so the descriptive writing is absolutely exquisite. Mr. Adams truly builds this world and the reader is without fail able to envision all that is part of this kingdom, from the marshes, deserts, and rivers to the wonderful Kynat bird that is a symbol of luck and prosperity. Not just a great, mythic, epic adventure, "Shardik" approaches the reader with much larger, deeper ideas and concepts as well, primarily religion and humankind's perception of it. Is nature to be perceived as the manifestation of the power and presence of God, or is it simply immune to any perceptions concerning it and is non-responsive to man's thoughts, ideas, or even prayers? Once having discovered the presence and/or manifestation of God, how should one proceed? Does one take that presence and abuse it to exert power over others, or does one simply allow God or it's manifestation to mold and move the enlightened, even shattering and remaking he/her as it sees fit? Is religion simply a path of redemption for the faithful? This is certainly an exciting, extremely well written book with many overarching concepts and ideas to make the reader think long after finishing the book. I can not recommend enough reading it at least once, or as I have, four times!

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Great book but don't expect to speed read
  

*by D***H on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 2, 2014*

The book is great but probably not for everyone. Keep in mind that it was written when it was fashionable to really 'get into' things....coming out of the hippie era. So you may feel that he rambles on sometimes about little things. But if you're looking for a epic tale for the sake of reading through it...not in a hurry to find out what happens next...then you'll be fine with that. As far as that goes, I would compare his writing style to Herman Mellvile and other 19th century authors who wrote for the sake of a story rather than selling books.Now for the warning: do not expect a delicate, light-hearted tale. This book is full of tragedy with some very graphic, realistic cruelty that may leave you scarred. If you're worried about that at all but want to read something by this author, you may want to start with Watership Down. If you're ok with that, mulitplied by 100 on the cruelty scale...then read shardik. I have to say that it was long and sometimes a little boring, but no more than Moby Dick...and like Moby Dick, it left permanent impressions on my mind...some I wish I hadn't read actually. But overall, I'm very glad I read the book and plan to read it again.

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