Talk:Shardik

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"The novel is similar to Stephen King's Dark Tower version of Shardik." Could anyone who knows what this refers to clarify it or provide a citation? I am not aware of anything by King that is particularly close to Shardik.DES 1 July 2005 17:15 (UTC)

I was reffering to the giant bear, also named Shardik, in SK's The Waste Lands (which see). I also clarified this in the article. --Auric The Rad July 2, 2005 18:55 (UTC)
- But what do you mean by "anachronism"? That's a little harsh.

mythotic[edit]

Is this a word? Google only turns up a variety of usernames. I have no idea what to replace it with. --Jamoche 18:32, 28 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Removed. --DocumentN (talk) 16:06, 22 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Good review[edit]

I have no time to add anything to this article right now, but Time has a review of Shardik that might be useful. Mr. Absurd (talk) 03:11, 2 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Graphic Novel or movie?[edit]

Was Shardik ever made into a graphic novel or movie? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.217.59.229 (talk) 03:17, 20 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Original research, original research and ... more original research[edit]

I have removed as much as I could today of the unsourced material and excessive character descriptions -- so long that they were turned into full-blown sections of the article! -- also full of original research observations of the meaning behind the characters' actions, etc. There is not one single reference in the article to support any of the broad analytical statements made and in any case there is no need to describe every single aspect of a character, their entire arc, through the whole novel. That's not what a "Characters" section is for. For goodness sake, what is a "plot introduction"? An excuse to have more unsourced material, it seems. The article was a series of personal essays with a slightly wonky but passable plot summary. Even the section called "Places" was just three seemingly randomly selected regions of the novel. One of them -- Quiso -- is an island, not a nation in its own right. A whole lot about that, but Bekla isn't metioned, nor Ortelga, the two main locations of the novel, but oh, Quiso is, and Deelguy and another random place. Again, OR shows up saying one of the places is based on Persia. We should be grateful the author of the character essays seems to have got tired at this point and did not provide us with an in-depth gazetter of the novel. ZarhanFastfire (talk) 05:26, 13 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]