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Velhous verissä (1988)

Tekijä: Terry Pratchett

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Sarjat: Kiekkomaailma : Rincewind (3), Kiekkomaailma (5)

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Sourcery, a hilarious mix of magic, mayhem, and Luggage, is the fifth book in Terry Pratchett's classic fantasy Discworld series. Rincewind, the legendarily inept wizard, has returned after falling off the edge of the world. And this time, he's brought the Luggage. But that's not all? Once upon a time, there was an eighth son of an eighth son who was, of course, a wizard. As if that wasn't complicated enough, said wizard then had seven sons. And then he had an eighth son - a wizard squared (that's all the math, really). Who of course, was a source of magic - a sourcerer. Will the sourcerer lead the wizards to dominate all of Discworld? Or can Rincewind's tiny band stave off the Apocalyp… (lisätietoja)
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Credo che Stregoneria sia uno dei libri sull'essere umano più belli che abbia mai letto nella mia vita. Terry Pratchett era maledettamente bravo a parlare degli umani vizi e delle umane virtù.

Come l'eroismo, che, a ben vedere, può rientrare in entrambe le categorie. Fare gli eroi, a patto di uscirne vivi, ci piace un sacco. E, se proprio bisogna morire nel tentativo, che almeno si parli di noi, che le nostre gesta siano narrate in grandiosi poemi e che nostre statue siano sistemate nelle piazze centrali. Così la pensa il povero Scuotivento, mago incapace amante della noia più noiosa, che, suo malgrado, si ritrova sempre in avventure pericolosissime e per niente noiose, pensate un po'! E non importa che tenti di spiegare ai suoi interlocutori che lui proprio non è tagliato per le situazioni potenzialmente letali. Ci ha provato, ma non capisce come funzionino.

Figuriamoci se si ritrova invischiato nel Trionfo dei Giganti del Ghiaccio, nell'Apocalisse, nell'Ora del Tè degli Dei con la fastidiosa consapevolezza di essere l'unico mago, benché inetto, in grado di fare qualcosa per evitare la catastrofe. Per fortuna è stato “aiutato” dalle circostanze, che hanno visto Morte e i Quattro Cavalieri dell'Apocalisse appiedati dal furto delle loro cavalcature, nonché dalla dimenticanza di questi ultimi, dimenticanza indotta dai piaceri dell'alcol...

Tuttavia, ciò che ha davvero aiutato Scuotivento a salvare il mondo è stato il suo cronico essere dovunque fuori posto nel mondo. Tutti vi direbbero che affrontare uno stregone capace di aprire uno strappo nella sua dimensione armati di un mattone infilato in un calzino sia quanto meno fuori luogo. O, almeno, fuori di testa.

Eppure salverà il mondo (leggi: metterà in moto eventi che condurranno alla salvezza del vecchio, caro mondo). Perché? Perché, una volta appurato che le soluzioni consuete non funzionano, sarà salutare passare a quelle non convenzionali. Come un mattone in un calzino, che è così ridicolo da distogliere l'attenzione di uno stregone soggiogato dal suo strumento-di-potere-barra-padre-padrone in modo da fargli vedere il mondo dalla sua personale prospettiva.

Sembra assurdo (come la sfida Mattone Nel Calzino contro Bastone Da Stregone... o l'ho già detto?), ma è sorprendente vedere quanto ancora oggi ci facciamo inibire dagli altri, lasciando loro determinare la nostra vita senza neanche rendercene conto. E, come dice Scuotivento, gli altri riescono sempre a fare la cosa sbagliata nei nostri confronti. Già è difficile capire chi siamo e cosa vogliamo, figuriamoci se si intromettono pure tizi a caso con presunti manuali delle istruzioni. Che poi, diciamocela tutta, il manuale delle istruzioni del frullatore non vi aiuterà a capire come funziona il vostro frigorifero... ( )
  lasiepedimore | Sep 1, 2023 |
Making a vague attempt.to read all the Discworld books, very vague. I e read a bunch of them. It hopelessly out of order. That said...

Really enjoyed this book, it was a first time read for me. Pratchett was so far ahead of the curve on understanding and writing about equal rights, concepts of poverty and inequality in general society, and so much more. But he did it all with a sly smile and a side eye, and humour, so the lesson is there but you enjoyed the getting of it. Amazing author. ( )
  beentsy | Aug 12, 2023 |
Carino, per carità.
Ma come fantasy è troppo demenziale per essere credibile, e come libro umoristico è troppo inglese per strappare più di una risata una, e qualche debole sorrisino qua e là.
Se ci si aggiunge che assolutamente non tira, se non nelle ultime 10 pagine... Boh. E' il (secondo e) credo ultimo libro di Pratchett che leggo. ( )
  kenshin79 | Jul 25, 2023 |
Such fun! The more I read the Rincewind books, the more I love the Luggage. ( )
  leslie.98 | Jun 27, 2023 |
I love reading Pratchett as he builds his world full of characters that let him shift from one to another and write stories from different viewpoints. Years ago I didn't see it and out of the first five books, three were centered around Rincewind and his uncanny ability to get out of trouble while being so rudely inserted into trouble. Rincewind reminds me of a comedy bit Ron White performs when he talks about being arrested for being drunk in public. In the bit he talks about how he was actually drunk in private until they threw him out of the bar into the public.

I was wavering between 3 and 4 stars and I originally gave it 4 but I've revised it to 3 stars. I was listening to the Radio Morpork podcast on the book and they nailed what I had difficulty focusing on. I like the characters but they don't seem to mesh well with the story. Individually they rock but I didn't get the same meshy feeling like I did in Mort.

On one hand I'm proud to write that I now know how to pronounce geas. On another hand I'm a little perturbed to write that for over 40 years I'd pronounced it wrong and it took Pratchett's wordplay in this book for me to figure it out. As in recently figured it out. As in what time is it now?

I almost forgot to write about the cover! Back in the 70s when I was devouring fantasy, I loved Darrell K. Sweet's (DKS) covers and learned to recognize them. They often drew me to books while I was cruising the local bookstore looking for something to read. Flash forward many years when I get this book. Now the first four have Josh Kirby covers while this one has a DKS one and I don't like it. DKS was an incredibly prolific cover artist and did the covers for many books I've read so why don't I like it?

Maybe it's because of the Kirby covers? I'm not really sure. So I start hunting around online because it's easy to do and do I find a lot of likes and dislikes on Pratchett covers! And it's all over the place. I see people who hate DKS covers and love Kirby covers. Wowee but people don't hold back their negative thoughts online (shocking, I know). I read (I forget where) that Pratchett almost felt like DKS hadn't read the book when he created the US covers. But then I read a lot of dislike for Kirby's covers. One person wrote about how they were so hideous it put them off reading the books! And while I haven't read anything about Pratchett not liking the Kirby covers, I did read that the Paul Kidby covers were his preference and he found it amazing that the Kidby character designs were more like what he imagined for his characters. ( )
  alan_chem | Feb 28, 2023 |
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Many years ago I saw, in Bath, a very large American lady towing a huge tartan suitcase very fast on little rattly wheels which caught in the pavement cracks and generally gave it a life of its own. At that moment the Luggage was born. Many thanks to that lady and everyone else in places like Power Cable, Neb., who don't get nearly enough encouragement.
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The subject of wizards and sex is a complicated one, but as has already been indicated it does, in essence, boil down to this: when it comes to wine, women and song, wizards are allowed to get drunk and croon as much as they like.
Two thousand years of peaceful magic had gone down with the drain, the towers were going up again, and with all this new raw magic floating around something was going to get very seriously hurt. Probably the universe.
Strangely enough, he wasn't particularly angry. Anger is an emotion, and for emotion you need glands, and Death didn't have much truck with glands and needed a good run at it to get angry. But he was mildly annoyed. He sighed again. People were always trying this sort of thing. On the other hand, it was quite interesting to watch, and at least this was a bit more original than the usual symbolic chess game, which Death always dreaded because he could never remember how the knight was supposed to move.
There was a pause full of philosophy.
They convinced him that he wasn't mad because, if he was mad, that left no word at all to describe some of the people he met.
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Sourcery, a hilarious mix of magic, mayhem, and Luggage, is the fifth book in Terry Pratchett's classic fantasy Discworld series. Rincewind, the legendarily inept wizard, has returned after falling off the edge of the world. And this time, he's brought the Luggage. But that's not all? Once upon a time, there was an eighth son of an eighth son who was, of course, a wizard. As if that wasn't complicated enough, said wizard then had seven sons. And then he had an eighth son - a wizard squared (that's all the math, really). Who of course, was a source of magic - a sourcerer. Will the sourcerer lead the wizards to dominate all of Discworld? Or can Rincewind's tiny band stave off the Apocalyp

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