Well, what did you think of it?
what's Shardik? I'm hip deep in Robert Howard collections right now.
Shardik's written by Richard Adams, who wrote
Watership Down, but that's where the similarities end. It's a fantasy novel. It takes place somewhere around the Fertile Cresent (Mesopotania), but Adams doesn't go into much detail. It's about a simple hunter who stumbles across a giant bear that he thinks is Shardik, the bear god. The thinks the bear's return to his village so the natives can take over the capital city that they were driven out from. There's also a priestess who turns into quite the whore, and a creepy child slaver.
It's just so annoying because I found the book to be as good as Tolken, but no one's ever heard of it. The artwork from this Ice and Fire guy sort of reminds me of the book -- very epic fantasy. Hell, if he had done the novel's cover, the book probably would have been a hit.
Stephen King is apparently a fan of the book though. There's a robotic bear in his 'Dark Tower' series called Shardik -- I'm actually interested in reading that series.
