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| Sensenic 385th Post
 
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|  "Re(6):Testing..."
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That's Rincewind? Now that's an interesting interpretation of him. Much better than on the garish Kirby (Kidby?) covers where he's ancient and toothless and bedraggled.
Yup, from the 1rst Discworld game. I recommend you the 3 of them if you like the series and graphic adventures; specially the 3rd since it's an original story and it's a parody of noir cinema too, and it has the best ambientation.
I imagine Rincewind at half the way of both designs. Not as young as in the games and not as old as Josh Kirby's covers one...
Perhaps more like Paul Kidby's one
Funny, there are both Kirby and Kidby Discworld designs. I think I never noticed they were different persons, I only knew there were two main Discworld artists...
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You read the novels proper as well?
I've read The Last Continent and all of them from Colour of magic to Small Gods, except the witches' ones (Wyrd Sisters,Witches Abroad and Lords and Ladies). I left them for the last ones because I didn't buy them in order but for interest at first, and now the books are hard to find because they stopped publishing here in Spanish. Another publishers are on it now (they've published Lords and Ladies, Small Gods and....The Last Continent ¬¬U), but they're slooow... and the translation is far worse.
Perhaps someday I'll start with the originals....
PS: Oh! And haven't read Eric either because another publisher took the original one, so it didn't "come with the pack" here.
Rincewind: Hello! Anyone out there?!
An unsafe state is a state that isn't safe
-Stallings book on OS-
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| Treepull Aitch
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| "Re(7):Testing..." , posted Thu 27 Feb 07:19
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Yup, from the 1rst Discworld game. I recommend you the 3 of them if you like the series and graphic adventures; specially the 3rd since it's an original story and it's a parody of noir cinema too, and it has the best ambientation.
Ayup, I've played the second and the third. Didnt like the potrayal of Granny Weatherwax in the second though.
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I imagine Rincewind at half the way of both designs. Not as young as in the games and not as old as Josh Kirby's covers one...
Perhaps more like Paul Kidby's one
Funny, there are both Kirby and Kidby Discworld designs. I think I never noticed they were different persons, I only knew there were two main Discworld artists...
I always get the names confused, and don't want to bother memorizing them. The artist that did the garish covers died last October, so the cobers'll probaly be done by the other one from now on. Like the Night Watch cover; y'know, the one that's a parody of The Night Watch portait.
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I've read The Last Continent and all of them from Colour of magic to Small Gods, except the witches' ones (Wyrd Sisters,Witches Abroad and Lords and Ladies). I left them for the last ones because I didn't buy them in order but for interest at first, and now the books are hard to find because they stopped publishing here in Spanish. Another publishers are on it now (they've published Lords and Ladies, Small Gods and....The Last Continent ¬¬U), but they're slooow... and the translation is far worse.
Perhaps someday I'll start with the originals....
Are the translators able to localize any of Prachett's word puns? Fer 'zample, there was a scene in The Truth where these two dwarves are chasing a rolling printing wheel, and screaming "Stop the press!"
tangent: ahh, Small Gods. ^_^ My favourite Prachett work
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| Sensenic 388th Post
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| "Re(8):Testing..." , posted Thu 27 Feb 07:29:
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Are the translators able to localize any of Prachett's word puns? Fer 'zample, there was a scene in The Truth where these two dwarves are chasing a rolling printing wheel, and screaming "Stop the press!"
Usually they do, specially the first one, Cristina Macía who was far better than the guy now (and she wasn't THAT good herself). The example you put is perfectly translatable because in Spanish "press" and "press" (you know what I mean) are the same word too, but, of course, some of the jokes can't be translated or loose much of their fun because the translators must come out with something funny and coherent in there... Luckily there's this Discworld Spanish page La concha de Gran A'Tuin (Great A'Tuin's Shell) where they put references to the translations mistakes, details, references and stuff for any book...
EDIT: And I don't like much the designs for Discworld 2 either... The trolls...naah...
Rincewind: Hello! Anyone out there?!
An unsafe state is a state that isn't safe
-Stallings book on OS-
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