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Shardik (Beklan Empire #1)

Richard Adams

Paperback | Pages: 604 pages

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Title	:	Shardik (Beklan Empire #1)
Author	:	Richard Adams
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 604 pages
Published	:	November 1st 2004 by Overlook Duckworth (first published May 15th 1974)
Categories	:	Fantasy. Fiction. Animals. Classics

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Shardik is a fantasy of tragic character, centered on the long-awaited reincarnation of the gigantic bear Shardik and his appearance among the half-barbaric Ortelgan people. Mighty, ferocious, and unpredictable, Shardik changes the life of every person in the story. His advent commences a momentous chain of events. Kelderek the hunter, who loves and trusts the great bear, is swept on by destiny to become first devotee and then prophet, then victorious soldier, then ruler of an empire and priest-king of Lord Shardik only to discover ever-deeper layers of meaning implicit in his passionate belief in the bear's divinity.

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Original Title:	Shardik
ISBN:	0715633317 (ISBN13: 9780715633311)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Beklan Empire #1
Characters:	Kelderek
Setting:	Beklan Empire

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When I read a Richard Adams book, it takes over my whole life. Every event in my life mirrors what the characters are going through. I stay up way too late reading so that I can see the characters through to the end of the scene. His books are way too real to me.

Those front cover graphics are absolutely stunning, but beyond that, this book is a beautiful, brutal and courageous fantasy novel with so many intriguing surprises.

My all-time favorite book.

Not sure how I missed this one.In my much younger years, I read Watership Down and loved it; I loved even more Adams's "The Plague Dogs," which was even darker. Somehow, I missed the book that came in between those, Shardik. It seems to have slipped down the memory hole in general: perhaps because, while there is an animal at the center of the book, the reader is only privy to its internal thoughts for a brief moment at the beginning, the rest of the book being an epic fantasy that takes

Watership Down by Richard Adams is probably my all-time favorite novel. But for whatever reason I have long avoided Shardik, his second novel. Something about the blurbs always rubbed me the wrong way. I have finally given it a chance, and it is just about what I expected: not bad, but a little boring.The novel is set in a fictional land, perhaps at a dark ages level of technology. (I would hesitate to class it as fantasy as there is little in the way of magic). The Ortelgans live on an island

Like many who have read this book, I initially picked it up due to Stephen King's reference to it in the book The Waste Lands. It helped that I also loved Watership Down and The Plague Dogs, and that the mythic nature of Richard Adams writing in general speaks to me. Shardik was a much, much more mythic book than the other two, which would mark The Plague Dogs as the most... well, down to earth book out of this particular bunch.Shardik is the story of a young man (Kelderek) who comes across a

I was warned this was dense, but clearly I was not warned enough. No pun intended, but Christ this was dense!At the end of the day, Adams took hundreds and hundreds of pages to say everyone should be nicer to each other and don't get so wrapped in up in distracting symbols.