The ​Heroes (First Law World 5.) 6 csillagozás

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War: where the blood and dirt of the battlefield hide the dark deeds committed in the name of glory. THE HEROES is about violence and ambition, gruesome deaths and betrayals; and the brutal truth that no plan survives contact with enemy. The characters are the stars, as ever, and the message is dark: when it comes to war, there are no heroes…
Meet THE HEROES.
Curnden Craw: a ruthless fighter who wants nothing more than to see his crew survive.
Prince Calder: a liar and a coward, he will regain his crown by any means necessary.
Bremer dan Gorst: a master swordsman, a failed bodyguard, his honor will be restored—in the blood of his enemies.
Over three days, their fates will be sealed.

Eredeti megjelenés éve: 2011

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Orion, London, 2012
610 oldal · puhatáblás · ISBN: 9780575083851
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Gollancz, London, 2011
506 oldal · ASIN: B004JHY6OG
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Orbit, London, 2011
576 oldal · ISBN: 9780316193566

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Kiemelt értékelések

Noro P>!
Joe Abercrombie: The Heroes

Egy csata. Hatszáz oldal. Franc se tudja, mennyi szereplő. (Legyünk hálásak, hogy G.R.R. Martin nem ír ilyeneket, mert akkor a Trónok harca minimum 37 kötetes lenne.) Persze csak találgatok, de Joe bácsi talán az Iliász grimdarkosításával kísérletezett ebben a könyvben. Mindkettőben van egy rakás hős, akik tudnak nagyokat verekedni és még nagyobbakat mondani. Mindkettőben egy totálisan fölösleges és végeérhetetlen csatát vívnak egy kőrakás birtoklásáért. Mindkettő remek alkotás, feltéve, hogy csak egy rövid részletet olvasol el belőle. De nagyobb mennyiségben fogyasztva mindkettőtől elfog a harctéri idegesség, és úgy érzed, mintha ugyanazt a néhány párbeszédet és összecsapást olvasnád újra meg újra, ad nauseam. A szerző nagyon jól fogta meg azt, hogy a háború ugyanannyira véres, mint amennyire unalmas. De ha pont ezt az egy dolgot kevésbé domborítaná ki, akkor talán egy szórakoztatóbb regényt kaptunk volna tőle.


Népszerű idézetek

Noro P>!

‘The truth is like salt. Men want to taste a little, but too much makes everyone sick.’

For What We Are About to Receive …

Noro P>!

‘We’re cavalrymen, aren’t we?’
‘Yes, trooper, we are.’
‘Shouldn’t we have horses?’
‘That’s an excellent question and a keen grasp of tactics. Due to an administrative error, our horses are currently with the Fifth, attached to Mitterick’s division, which, as a regiment of infantry, is not in a position to make best use of them. I’m told they’ll be catching up with us any day, though they’ve been telling me that a while. For the time being we are a regiment of … horseless horse.’

Old Hands

Noro P>!

‘What’s he doing here?’
‘Couldn’t say for sure. But I hear he’s a hell of a fighter.’ And Tunny gave his front teeth a worried sucking.
‘Ain’t that a good thing in a soldier?’ asked Yolk.
‘Bloody hell, no! Take it from me, who’s lived through more than one melee, wars are hard enough work without people fighting in the middle of ’em.’

Old Hands

Noro P>!

When you’re planning what to do, always think of doing nothing first, see where that gets you.

Reachey

Noro P>!

‘By tomorrow morning all three divisions will be in position.’
Though one is ruined and the others will have marched all night.
‘We have the weight of numbers.’
We will crush them under our corpses!
‘We have right on our side.’
Good for you. I have a huge bruise on mine.
But the rest of the officers seemed cheered by the platitudes. As idiots often are.

Tactics

Carun P>!

‘Too old for this shit,’ muttered Craw, wincing at the pain in his dodgy knee with every other step.

(első mondat)

Carun P>!

We’re meant to be fighters. A little fight shouldn’t get us shitting ourselves.’ He almost choked on the words, since he was mostly shitting himself from morning to night, and especially in fights.

Carun P>!

‘Once your hands get bloody it ain’t so easy to get ’em clean. The Dogman told me that. My hands been bloody all my life.’

Carun P>!

War’s got a fine tradition round these parts, o’ course, but tax has never been popular.

Carun P>!

We like big, stupid men in the North, men who wade about in blood and so on. We sing songs about ’em. But those men get nothing done alone, and that’s a fact. We need the other kind. Thinkers.


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