Shardik

Listener Reviews

1. 5.0(1)

   Splendid story line!

   The character development was excellent, especially the main characters of the story, including Shardik. Who would have thought that such a character could command such devotion! This is well worth the long listen, and has sections if you want to break it up. Though I'm betting you won't want to! Enjoy!

   Leslie Everett · June 8, 2025

2. 5.0(1)

   Captive story

   Enjoyable story. Great author. Would recommend. I have his book in paperback, but I found reading the names difficult. Listening to the audiobook version made it walker to follow along. I enjoyed the narration but I sped up the pace.

   Marcella Mooney · December 2, 2023

3. 3.0(1)

   Dry and rich at the same time.

   Richard Adams proves himself a fantastic story teller with this book. Unfortunately the story itself is very lacking. It was like listening to a poet describing the subtleties of a paper bag. I kept waiting for him to finally give some grand revelation of what was in the bag, only to find that the bag was empty all along.

   Clarissa Bridges · March 21, 2023

4. 5.0(1)

   amazing epic

   i loved watership down and plague dogs, but i was not prepared for the masterful work with a very different story style. it is my favorite book ever to date.

   komenak · January 28, 2021

5. 4.0(1)

   Good, but not as good as I hoped.

   I absolutely loved Watership Down, and I was hoping that I would enjoy this as much (on hearing the author say it was his best work). I was a bit disappointed. It was a very different type of story, and it was missing some of the warmth and camaraderie that characterized Watership Down. The story was quite dark in many places, and there was little lightheartedness to be found anywhere else in it. As an agnostic, I suppose that some of the story's religious allegories were less important to me than they might have been to someone who was deeply religious. I could see the points he was making, but the questions he spent so much time trying to answer were not ones that occupy my mind much. Still, it was a well told story. I have really liked some of the reader's other work (his reading of China Mieville's work for instance), but his reading of Shardik seemed in some places to be tonally at odds woth the work itself. A bright, clipped, cheerful English accent seems out of place when the subject matter involves depression, battlefields, or other kinds of darkness. I would have liked the reading more if the tone of the reader had more closely tracked the tone of the work as it was read. With that said, I enjoy this reader very much in general, and I think he does a very good job overall.

   Desirae Velasquez · December 24, 2020

6. 5.0(1)

   I thought this was a tremendous story and a great job on the narration

   I don’t often write reviews for books but this one really deserves my appreciation. I had first read Watership down and really really enjoyed that story and so I decided to try this book out by the same author. I am really glad that I did. I have put this in my favorites category and have listen to it twice already with the intent of listening at least a couple of more times. There is just so much depth and thought put into this story line. I hope that this author considers a sequel for this book.

   Lexus Browning · October 17, 2020

7. 5.0(1)

   Amazing performance

   There will never be a better reader than John Lee...At least as far as I have heard yet.

   Skylar Chang · October 12, 2019

8. 5.0(1)

   Thoroughly Enjoyable

   Even better than Watership Down! A delight to listen to, both on account of Richard Adams writing and John Lee’s narration.

   Jaime Vang · March 31, 2019