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. It stars the legendary Cohen the Barbarian, a legend in his own lifetime. Cohen can remember when a hero didn’t have to worry about fences and lawyers and civilisation, and when people didn’t tell you off for killing dragons. But he can’t always remember, these days, where he put his teeth…

Taking aim at heroes and hero worship, Pratchett describes a time when the world needs saving and Rincewind and Carrot are up for the task. Also center stage is Cohen the Barbarian and his Silver Horde as well as Blind Io and the small gods of the Discworld. Cohen and his band of octogenarian heroes invade the gates of the gods in the mystical city of Dunmanifestin. We also get to see the Discworld’s answer to Leonardo da Vinci, Leonard da Quirm. 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. 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 The story itself is short, but cute. Cohen and his horde of heroes are on a quest, and their heroic shenanigans might destroy the entire Discworld. A variety of familiar characters get involved in trying to prevent this and, naturally, Rincewind gets dragged into things against his will. Sort of.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... Delidolu adlı aptallık yığınının içine sıçtığı güzelim Terry Pratchett ve Paul Kidby kitabı veya başka bir bakışla Discworld'ün yirmi yedinci kitabı: It's clearly not a scan: the images are heavily pixelated and do not show the print version's dithering. I assume that they were taken from original digitised masters and then reduced in resolution to keep the final product's file size down. The text is blurry at best, suffering from JPEG artifacting at the edges and is significantly worse than the original printed text. Ironically, I suspect that scanning a physical book and then processing the images to remove the dithering would probably have produced a better result for both the text and the images than is evident in the Kindle version.

In 2008, Harper Children's published Terry's standalone non-Discworld YA novel, Nation. Terry published Snuff in October 2011. The artwork throughout the book is excellent, often eliciting a giggle by itself. Many of the pieces in the book have become familiar art pieces for the setting individually, and these range from epic depictions of the view of the Disc and its supporting elephants and turtle from its moon to more intimate portraits of the characters and creatures. Kidby does a particularly great job at capturing Carrot's charismatic heroism and Rincewind's world-weary fatalism. 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. I rate the story a three. It didn't really hold my interest, though to be fair, I am ruled by the Goddess of the Easily Distracted. I found myself rushing through the text to get to more of the gorgeous artwork.The main word that comes to mind for this book is “cute.” It’s an adorable idea about what happens to heroes if they aren’t killed in spectacular glory when they’re young. Apparently the answer is that they go looking for adventure and not the old people kind. 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. Cohen the Barbarian is one of the greatest heroes in the history of the Disc. He has defeated many enemies, found much treasure and conquered several empires. But his well-earned retirement of riches and power is a bit on the boring side, so he's now come up with a new idea: to return fire to the gods and confront them on their home ground of Dunmanifestin, atop the ten-mile spire of Cori Celesti at the very heart of the world. Unfortunately, this will destroy the Disc and everything on it. Fortunately, the wizards of Unseen University are ready to join forces with Leonardo da Quirm and the Ankh-Morpork City Watch to save the day. Or at least try to. 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. 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.

It stars the legendary Cohen the Barbarian, a legend in his own lifetime. Cohen can remember when a hero didn't have to worry about fences and lawyers and civilisation, and when people didn't tell you off for killing dragons. But he can't always remember, these days, where he put his teeth... After the Horde leave with the Valkyries' horses, their first stop is to visit Mazda where he is being punished, cut off his chains, give him something to drink, and leave him a sword so that he may deal with his punisher. The bard, changed by his experience, composes a new style of saga, one with musical accompaniment, about it. The late great Sir Terry's Conan tribute to Robert E Howard what happens to super men when they get old & there teeth fall out this old man Steptoe with muscles. But the extra special illustrations that give this book that WOW!' Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐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. 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:

They've plundered, ravished and done all sorts of other things, ending up quite wealthy and ... bored. But at least they are just bored and not as boring as the real life equivalences in politics, so what lies closer than to replay some classic mythology as a real life RPG, the perfect hobby for silver barbarians with some terrorist attitude to go with a big, Discworld shattering bang. Because of the potentially ultra fatal consequences of their plan to reach immortality, or at least a satisfying end worthy of and close to each barbarians´ wet death dream, Vetinari unleashes Leonard of Quirms´ ingenuity what enables Rincewind, Carrot, and The Librarian to go one a, hopefully for the world, successful hellish road and air trip. 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, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

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, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ Tropes show how literature is conceptualized and created and which mixture of elements makes works and genres unique: