The Last Hero: A Discworld Fable: 27

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Pratchett weaves a tale around one of my favourite Discworld characters - Cohen the Barbarian, a lifetime in his own legend. Generally pissed off with the world and the Gods, he decides to go out with a bang. It's up to Rincewind, Carrot and Leonard of Quirm to stop him and save the world! It plays on themes of old age and the challenges it brings, whilst simultaneously playing around with themes of the heroic saga and the battle between good and evil. Lavishly illustrate by Discworld regular Kidby, Pratchett's latest brings together some of the series' most beloved and unforgettable characters in a tribute to one of comic fantasy's most celebrated worlds." --Library Journal Terry worked for many years as a journalist and press officer, writing in his spare time and publishing a number of novels, including his first Discworld novel, The Color of Magic, in 1983. In 1987, he turned to writing full time. Aslında Paul Kidby her ne kadar kendisine alışmış da olsam, benim çok da sevdiğim bir çizer değil. Üslubunu biraz fazla karikatürize buluyor ve özellikle kapaklarını zaman zaman incelemesi zevkli bulsam da çoğunlukla Discworld'ün ağırlığını karşılamaya yetmediğini düşünüyorum(bu parantezin içinde eskiden fil şakası vardı, son okuduğum Terry kitabı Maurice olduğu için kaçtı). Ayrıca çoğunlukla da "fazla oryantal" buluyorum çizimlerini (ki bunu başka nasıl anlatabileceğimden emin değilim) Ancak bu kitapta çıkardığı iş gerçekten başka bir seviyede. Kitap boyunca yayılmış tüm portreler, resimler, Leonard'ın tasarımlarını gösteren şemalar, Terry'nin muazzam referanslarının görsel versiyonları, A'tuin'in ve Diskdünya'nın muazzam tasvirleri, Nasa'nın uzaydan çekilmiş fotoğraflarının Diskdünya versiyonları, elinin değdiği hemen her şey o kadar iyi ki. Dandik Türkçe baskısında değil ama(en sonda geleceğiz oraya) orijinal versiyonundaki kimi çizimlere saniyelerden dakikalara taşan ölçeklerde baktım. Görsel hikayeciliğin ne kadar güzel yapılabileceğinin yegane örneğiydi adeta. 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’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. The heroes are disillusioned with the way their lives have turned out—having conquered the Empire, they have nothing left to do but die in comfort—and are angry for having been allowed to grow old, rather than dying in battle as most of their friends did. They decided to go out on the quest after one of the Horde members choked to death on a cucumber. Evil Harry is just as angry; despite his efforts to give his opponents the sporting chance that an Evil Overlord should, they will not follow the Code by allowing him to escape in return.So we get a madcap ride in a very daring contraption utilizing dragons, lots of hilarity from Rincewind pointing out the obvious death traps, Gods that don't understand sarcasm and much much more. Oh, and space! Yup, this novel had everything. With them is a whiny, terrified bard, whom they have kidnapped so that he can write the saga of their quest. Along the way, they are joined by Evil Harry Dread (the last Dark Lord) and Vena the Raven-haired (an elderly heroine who has now gone grey). Onca silahı, anahtarı ve ilaç kutularını falan, keşfedilmemiş zindanlara kim bırakıyor?" derken Vena'ya buradan seslenmek istiyorum; Sadece onlar olsa iyi, anahtarlarla kapıları renklerine göre de kodluyorlar üstelik. 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... He says we'll have to land soon,' said Carrot. 'Was there some position we're supposed to get into?'

It's what ordin'ry people remember that matters. It's songs and sayin's. It doesn't matter how you live and die, it's how the bards wrote it down." 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. It wonderfully caps Rincewind's series of adventures, neatly and directly tying up his Disc-spanning journey that began in the foundational The Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic' Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐This volume is also one of the special ones illustrated throughout and, I think, the very first volume Paul Kidby was the artist for (after the death of Josh Kirby). So I enjoyed both the audio version (still not as good as Nigel Planer's reading, I can't emphasize this enough) as well as my print copy (Rincewind, by the way, is depicted too young in my opinion).