How did the Lord's return of the pitfalls ?
I think for people who have read and ISDT Sghorbit It was a real surprise to find this book in a bookstore. Personally I was expecting a translation of Sellamillion Adam Roberts, but apparently Fanucci and the Collective Self Rumente (ie the Italian translators of these parodies, from now on CAR) have opted for something else: a sequel ISDT , which is not a parody of any novel or Tolkien's translation of a parody written by Anglophone authors, Benns designed by CAR, in this April 2005 in Italian bookshops. The plot After nearly two decades by the events he recounted ISDT , members of the company return to work together to combat the so-called Triple Alliance, determined to subdue the whole land of Partition. Thus we see the old fellows to travel to unknown lands and full of oddities in search of a mysterious talisman Corbelli, the ultimate weapon against the forces of evil. But a surprise awaits them.
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To be honest, this book has me a bit 'crowded out: first, because no one expected The following parody of Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien, never written before, as stated in the band surrounding the volume, the second because even after I began reading it I found several things that I did not expect. It must be said that if you want to find in this book further attempts to parody elements Tolkien, perhaps overlooked in previous volumes, will not amount to much, the story and the themes included are very different from those of previous, and the points of connection with the previous books are really minor: the geography of places no longer keeps account of the de ISDT , the traditional bad - narc, mice or indeed any other force of evil in Tolkien parody - does not appear and even the names and characteristics of many characters are (apparently for no reason, especially names) changed ; be added to this the fact that the nomenclature of the various races of fantasy land of Partition is very confusing, since we use different terms to mean the same thing. I will not be accused of pedantry: I imagine that the CAR has written this book mostly for fun and that was not the first of his thoughts to create something strictly ordered, but perhaps a minimum of internal consistency was not bad, and would avoid sending the reader in confusion, especially in the first part of the book. We wanted to change (almost) totally road, then, they wanted to create an array of characters and situations that call for something much closer to everyday reality, relegating the story to a mere pretext to talk about something else: reflections on peace when the company stays in the realm of the witch Erica; reflections on musical genres and society quite explicit (and here also shows the nature of the rocker CAR!) reflections with environmental seals and polar bears who rebel against the poachers, some political considerations' everywhere, with people suffering from Amerikan (a disease that shows mangiabambini Communists everywhere) and especially considering the Society of Corbelli fighting a so-called "Triple Alliance" headed by Prince Charming, the Gawain and the Green, the Black Prince, and he who has ears to hear will understand who you are talking. Interesting this, because the ideas really comic book come out especially when it comes to these things, and more than ever read this passage, we realize that there is no need to make people laugh often cripple the reality, especially Italian politics, as in Sometimes it is so absurd that you just write it down so as to obtain the comic effect. However, any policy consideration is relative, and must not be forgotten that in this book, the CAR does not scruple to expose its point of view on the world, taking positions more or less shared (more personally) for anyone to read this novel.
At the end you can not just say it is not a comic book, although it is clear that his main objective is not only making people laugh (even if it was just what the result would be precisely the maximum). For the rest, not much else to say in my work is to understand, and I must admit that reviewed this book after reading only the first, and certainly without having fully understood. However, the effect is "unexpected," and it would be interesting to have a chat with the Collective Self Rumente to understand the reasons why they chosen this literary solution.
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