Björn recenserade Shardik av Richard Adams
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3 stjärnor
- A bear! You made a bear!
- I didn't mean to...
- UNDO IT! UNDO IT!
Shardik is a bit of a mixed bag; conceptually often brilliant, projecting fanaticism onto a beast (?) who knows nothing but that he'd like the tiny monkeys to stop stabbing him please, and following it through all the various stages of the political implementation of it. Adams does some fine building here of both world and characters, with consequences that feel, if not always completely realistic, then at least like they have weight. But the narrative is a bit too messy, and the prose a bit too filigreed, for me to love it as fully as I love Watership Down.
- A bear! You made a bear!
- I didn't mean to...
- UNDO IT! UNDO IT!
Shardik is a bit of a mixed bag; conceptually often brilliant, projecting fanaticism onto a beast (?) who knows nothing but that he'd like the tiny monkeys to stop stabbing him please, and following it through all the various stages of the political implementation of it. Adams does some fine building here of both world and characters, with consequences that feel, if not always completely realistic, then at least like they have weight. But the narrative is a bit too messy, and the prose a bit too filigreed, for me to love it as fully as I love Watership Down.