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. Delidolu adlı aptallık yığınının içine sıçtığı güzelim Terry Pratchett ve Paul Kidby kitabı veya başka bir bakışla Discworld'ün yirmi yedinci kitabı: 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.

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. 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.He says we'll have to land soon,' said Carrot. 'Was there some position we're supposed to get into?' 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! 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. 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:

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, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ Because of the complexity of Kirbys´amazing art, this was the only special edition, he just couldn´t produce more graphic novel or even comic style Discworld works without reducing the richness of detail, but it would have been amazing. But the potential for artists to create new interpretations of the Discworld, that is predestined to be comically graphically reinterpreted, is immense. Not just the character descriptions and Kurbys´templates are all there, it would also open the option of expanding the universe and telling new stories.

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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 In Dec. of 2007, Pratchett disclosed that he had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. On 18 Feb, 2009, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II. 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. 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.

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). They've plundered, ravished and done all sorts of other things, ending up quite wealthy and ... bored. 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... The Wizards of the Unseen University are in a bit of a panic about this. Destroying Cori Celesti will cause the magic of Discworld to cease holding together the Disc and it will be curtain for everyone. Lord Vetinari recruits Leonard of Quirm, who sets about designing the Discworld’s second known spacecraft, The Kite. This is powered by dragons and will slingshot around the world and land in the home of the Gods. Leonard of Quirm, Captain Carrot Ironfoundersson, and a very reluctant Rincewind are to be the pilots of the craft and they are launched on their mission to say the world, except unbeknown to them, they have an extra passenger on board. 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.'

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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). The first Discworld novel, The Colour of Magic, was published in 1983, and the series is still going strong almost three decades later. Four Discworld novels - Hogfather, Going Postal, The Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic - have been adapted for television, with more to follow. His books have sold approximately 85 million copies worldwide (but who's counting?), and been translated into forty languages. The Horde's end is ambiguous. Valkyries come to take the heroes to the Halls of the Slain, where a feast has been prepared for them. Instead, the Silver Horde, refusing to accept their deaths, steal the valkyries' horses and set off to find other worlds to " do heroic stuff in." Death does not appear to them, as he often does when Discworld characters die, although he subsequently appears to Vena, and is evasive about whether he is " collecting". Discworld ile özdeşleşmiş çizgileriyle tanıdığımız, her kitabın kapağında, Discworld arşivlerinde, compendiumlarda görmeye alıştığımız Paul Kidby'nin her aşamasında Terry Pratchett'la birlikte çizimlerini planladığı ve ince ince işlediği bir Pterry kitabı Son Kahraman. Elbette "yolu Diskten geçen herkes" (Bu arada Kayahan'ın Diskdünya versiyonu kesinlikle Troll olurdu) Kirby ile bir noktada tanışmış, fanlık çizgisini biraz geçenler de Kirby'nin çizgi roman ve diğer resimli kitaplarını mutlaka görmüştür. Ama sonradan resimlenen kitap ve çizgi romana dönüştürülen hikayelerin aksine, daha en başından bir resimli kitap olarak planlanmış "Son Kahraman" ve görsel olarak muazzam bir sonuç çıkmış ortaya.

The story is thin and a little disposable, but fun. Pratchett layers in some melancholy thoughts about aging and feeling obsolete in your work as you get older, but also some traditional comic references to history and science. However, that is not the important thing, Cohen and his Silver Horde, ancient heroes from all over the Disc are on a final quest to visit the Gods. They are returning to the Gods what was stolen by the first hero but with added interest, with the intention of obliterating their mountain home, Cori Celesti. So that their monumental quest can be immortalised and passed into lore, they have, shall we say, persuaded a bard to come along and create the saga. Cohen can remember many things, the time when heroes didn’t need to worry about offending people or be concerned by the ruminations of anyone in the legal industry and he wasn’t that concerned about civilisation. The thing that he was struggling to remember though, was where he’d left his teeth.The ultimate gift for the legions of Sir Terry Pratchett fans--a gorgeous full-color illustrated Discworld fable. 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. Este grupo de viejitos cool que sigue a Cohen el bárbaro, quien tiene el plan de una última misión, devolverle lo que le pertenece a los dioses, lo primero que los mortales le robaron, el problema es que se lo quieren pagar con intereses, y debido a esto puede que todo el mundodisco se destruya. 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."