They've plundered, ravished and done all sorts of other things, ending up quite wealthy and ... bored. Well, I finally got around to it and, well, it was a different, but I can't say it resonated. Sure, I enjoyed it, but the prose and art combination didn't really create anything particularly magical for me, although it was entertaining enough. Gelelim "madem bu kadar beğendin her şeyi, neden iki puan kısmına?". Genellikle yüzeysel okumalar yapan insanlar tarafından sıklıkla Terry Pratchett çevirilerinin iyi olduğu sanrısı oluşmuş olsa da (ki bunda Tudem öncesi daha da kötü olmasının da rolü var) Terry Pratchett teliflerini maalesef elinde tutan Delidolu/Tudem ve kitapları çeviren Niran Elçi, Pterry kitaplarını vahşice sakatlamasıyla tanıdığımız unsurlar. Maalesef çevirilerde saçma sapan şeyler yapan, kah kafasına göre esprileri "yerelleştiren" ve bu sırada bildiğin uyduran, kah kendine vazife edinip artık neye ve kime yaranmak istiyorsa içerik sansürleyen, kah hiç anlamayan bu muhteşem ekibin çalışmalarının bir örneğini Carpe Jugulum'da görebilirsiniz. Laf açılmışken, bu içerik kaçırma, anlamama konusu gerçekten bir seçenek bile değil Terry kitapları konusunda aslında. Devasa bir online komünite var Pratchett kitaplarını satır satır incelemiş, her göndermeyi forumlarda tartışmış ve bunları raporlamış olan. Ben bile her kitabı bitirip review yazdıktan sonra bir bakıyorum "acaba neleri kaçırmışım bu sefer?" diye, ki bunlar çevirmen/yayınevi/editör falan. Lan, işiniz bu işiniz! Para kazanıyor bundan bunlar. İnanılmaz bir dingillik seviyesi gerçekten. As always, Pratchett combines pure comedy with razor-sharp observation of human foibles, combined with an ability to cut through to the essence of things: 'People think that it is strange to have a turtle ten thousand miles long and an elephant more than two thousand miles tall, which just shows that the human brain is ill-adapted for thinking and was probably originally designed for cooling the blood. It believes mere size is amazing...There's nothing amazing about size. Turtles are amazing, and elephants are quite astonishing. But the fact that there's a big turtle is far less amazing than the fact that there is a turtle anywhere.' Meanwhile, the Horde have already reached Cori Celesti. The gods allow them to sneak in disguised as gods themselves, despite (or perhaps because of) their having been betrayed to the gods by Evil Harry. The Horde suspect that the gods have been manipulating their entire quest. Fate challenges Cohen to roll a 7 on a standard 6-sided die. Cohen cheats Fate by slicing the die in-half in mid-air with his sword; the two halves land with the 6 and 1 both facing up. Cohen also notes that even if he does not succeed in killing the gods, someone will have tried, so someone will eventually try harder.

Pratchett’s perceptive and laugh-out-loud Discworld series is a literary phenomenon. And in The Last Hero, one aging hero with a grudge decides enough is enough. Beautifully illustrated throughout by Paul Kidby. aptallığa şahit olmaya devam ediyoruz. Kah resimlere müdahale ediliyor, kah sayfaların arka planlarındaki grafikler siliniyor, kah "aman yaaa," diye çizimler tamamen çıkarılıp atılıyor. The twenty-seventh Discworld book is another departure from the standard format of the series. Like the earlier Eric, The Last Hero was written and designed as an illustrated project. Unlike Eric, The Last Hero was never designed to be reissued without its illustrations, and they are more dynamically and essentially integrated into the book.Efsaneye göre Mazda asırlar öncee Discworld'ün bencil tanrılarından ateşi çalmış ve onu dünyanın tüm sakinlerine getirmiş, tanrılar da bu eylemine karşılık Mazda'yı her gün yenilenen bir eziyetle cezalandırmıştır. Diskdünya'nın en büyük kahramanı Barbar Cohen ve arkadaşları Gümüş Ordu da kahramanlık günlerini görkemli ve destansı son bir macera ile bitirmek ve Mazda'nın intikamını almaya karar verir. Cohen'in deyimiyle "Tanrılara ateşlerini geri vermek" için yanlarına 25 kilo Agathea Gök Gürültüsü Kili alan kahramanlar, en silahlı ve en tehlikeli halleriyle Disk'in tam ortasındaki Cori Celesti Dağının, tanrıların evi Dunmanifestin'in yolunu tutarlar. Tam da bu sırada, Disk'in büyü alanının tam ortasında yaşanacak bir patlamanın, dünya üzerinde mutlak bir yok oluşa neden olacağının bilinciyle, Disk uluslarının temsilcileri ve danışmanları, Ataerk'in sarayında hararetle tartışmakta, Cohen ve Gümüş Ordu'yu vaz geçirme görevine çıkacak gönüllüler aramaktadır. Ve "Gönüllü" sözcüğünü duyan Rincewind huzursuzlukla kıpırdanır... A message, carried by pointless albatross, arrives for Lord Vetinari from the Agatean Empire. The message explains that the Silver Horde (a group of aged barbarians introduced in Interesting Times, wherein they conquered the Empire, and led by Cohen the Barbarian, now the Emperor) have set out on a quest. Türkçe versiyonda hem aşırı ucuz kağıttan hem de kötü baskı kalitesinden pek göremiyoruz ama Leonardo'nun beslediği kuşlardan birinin üzerinde DoG-KöPek yazıyor. Bunun nedenini ise the Truth'ta öğrenmiştik. This is the second illustrated Discworld novel from Terry Pratchett after Eric, his collaboration with sadly missed Josh Kirby. It's hard to know how to describe it - Pratchett has written a story and Paul Kidby has illustrated it, but the illustrations are essential to the story and the story essential to the illustrations. It isn't really a graphic novel or an illustrated book, but somewhere between. And it is a true collaboration between two great talents to produce something quite brilliant.

Thanks to the illustrations, it´s a very short one, even for Pratchettian dimensions, but very easygoing and without the often included deeper criticism, a once pure and innocent fun that creates its humor mostly out of characters and satirizing the original myth, space programs, Schrödingers´cat, and the good old end of the world. Ardından kitaba başlıyoruz ve biz pis orta doğululuların görmeyi hak etmediği bir diğer çizim olan toprak renklerdeki Neo-Klasik Io, kartal ve "Fingers" Mazda çizimi bizi karşılamıyor. The Last Hero is by Interesting Times out of Men at Arms, and it's Terry Pratchett at his inimitable best. Although short (I read it in one morning), the book is a wonderful concoction of Nordic saga, Greek myth and Renaissance ingenuity, with a bit of Apollo 13 thrown in for good measure. There's nothing about this story I didn't love. The dialogues and action sequences were great, and I loved all the mythology references and parallels to our actual history. There's really only enough material here for a story of exactly this length, but despite its brevity it's still got that special brand of Pratchett profoundness that all his best novels do. The Last Hero takes a spoofing yet poignant look at god and hero worship, destiny, the birth of legends, cultural memory, and coming to terms with aging and mortality, but wanting to leave a mark on the world. In the grand scheme of things, it may not be as substantial a volume as some others, but I found it delightful. The Last Hero is the seventh book in the Rincewind subseries. It’s actually an illustrated novel, the first one I’ve read. It was only available as an illustrated version (unlike Eric which I read in a non-illustrated format), and I do think some of the illustrations were important to the story. If nothing else, the ending might not make much sense without the corresponding picture. The reader could probably guess what it showed if they’d been paying attention to the story, though.

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Este es uno de los libros que me ha gustado del mundodisco, por varias razones, no solo tiene al cobarde de Rincewind salvando al mundo una vez mas, aunque el solo quisiera huir y/o esconderse; sino que tiene una cofradía de personajes de todo el disco, tenemos a todo El cuadro académico de la ilustre universidad invisible, al Patricio de Ankh-Morpork Lord Vetinari, al Capitán Zanahoria de la guardia de la ciudad, a La muerte (que no podría faltar) y lo mejor de todo a la Horda de plata

Ve bu noktada ben, hazır hala kimsenin gelmişine geçmişine, ölüsüne dirisine, amcasına teyzesine, halasına eniştesine, eşiktekine beşiktekine sövmemişken, bu review'i "erken bitirmeye" karar veriyorum. Bizimkiler elbette gökkuşağını da pek sevmiyor. Artık "anam gökkuşağı! Hemen silelim yoksa okuyan ibne olur!" diye mi düşünüyorlar, yoksa başka hesaplarımı var, dangalakçam pek iyi olmadığından bilemiyorum. Yine de ellerini korkak alıştırmıyorlar, vuruyorlar makası: Lord Vetinari wishes to stop them, and recruits the help of the Wizards of Unseen University—all that can now prevent the world from being blown up is the crew of a swamp-dragon-powered-slingshot-spacecraft, consisting of its designer Leonard of Quirm, volunteer Captain Carrot, and involuntary volunteer Rincewind. Born Terence David John Pratchett, Sir Terry Pratchett sold his first story when he was thirteen, which earned him enough money to buy a second-hand typewriter. His first novel, a humorous fantasy entitled The Carpet People, appeared in 1971 from the publisher Colin Smythe.

Synopsis

Conan and his troupe have been on the Disc for a VERY long time without dying. But age is a matter of perspective as anyone trying to kill them finds out very briefly before their very own meeting with Binky and his master. Vetinari'nin Leonard ile konuşurken "Eski bir hikaye hatırlıyorum. Kuğuların çektiği bir gemi yapılmış ve..." derken bahsettiği hikaye piskopos Francis Godwin'in 1600lerde yazdığı, kuğuların çektiği bir arabayla aya gidilen The Man In The Moone. İlk uzay seyahati hikayelerinden olduğu için tarihsel bir önemi var. Eleman ay insanlarıyla falan karşılaşıyor sonra, tabii o dönem kilise iyice bir manyak gibi bi'şey olmuş... But I never bothered with this one because it was, to my mind, neither fish nor fowl, not a novel, not a graphic novel, not a picture book, but ... and, frankly, I don't really understand why that was the case, because I've read plenty of prose and art (primarily fiction, typically fantasy) books over the years. As best I can recall, I think my thinking was that the characters that animated Pratchett's world-building could run amok in my brain, and I could make anyone and anyplace look (and feels and sound and, yes, smell) pretty much however I wanted in my mind's eye, and I didn't really want to be biased or steered or guided by an artist's rendition. And, frankly, I think that's consistent with my general experience that, for example, I much prefer a superhero saga novelization to a comic book or graphic novel run (with very, very few exceptions). This must be how Cohen the Barbarian got his Silver Horde to follow him up the highest mountain in Discworld to return something that was stolen from the Gods. BUT - for reasons too complicated to go into here, it will mean the end of the world if he succeeds. So, it's up to Carrot, Rincewind and Leonard of Quirm to stop him, and...OH, YE GODS! The stewardess Librarian is flying the plane!

Ultimately, I'm glad I read it. I've invested too much of my reading resources (time, attention, money) over the years to Pratchett to not have, I guess, belatedly completed the Discworld cycle.

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Son söz olarak, Kitap güzel, kitap tatlı. Hiç bir şey olmasa sırf Rincewind'i Vitruvius Adamı olarak görmek için bile değerdi okumaya (ki aklıma geldikçe güleceğim buna). Tek sorun, orijinalini almanız gerekiyor. Kitabın kendisine 4/5 puan verirken, Tr baskısı olduğu iddia edilen bok yığınını da 2 puanla (çünkü yine de Terry'yi çok seviyorum, 1 yıldıza elim gitmiyor) yolculuyoruz. Ve bir kez daha rica ediyorum; Bu kitabı okumak istiyorsanız lütfen Delidolu baskısını almayın. There's really only enough material here for a short story, Discworld Lite, if you will, but there's still plenty to enjoy. Meeting the Gods was fun. I LOVE that there is a God of Unnecessary Paperwork and a Goddess of Certain Types of Ice Cream and Short Lengths of String. Pratchett] managed to perfectly blend a carefully crafted plot, with humour, steampunk gadgets, and of course the librarian. Pratchett really was the comic fantasy master' Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐