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The Last Dragon, by Silvana De Mari
Has anyone else...
Has anyone else ever read the book The Last Dragon? It is really good, maybe I'd even say one of my favourites. Anybody who likes fantasy should read it.
The story is about the last elf in the world and the last dragon (duh for that last part), and what happens when they meet. The plot is great, and so are the characters, especially Yorsh and Robi. I also loved the new ideas about dragons and elves: I have never seen them treated the way they are in here.
It is also really funny in places. Like here, a conversation between the elf and a human woman he meets (sorry in advance for the length):
"As they set off, the human asked, 'Do you have a name?'
'Yes,' the little elf said stoutly.
The human snorted. 'And what would that name be?'
Grandmother's lessons in human grammar started to return to him. 'No, not *would be*. "Would be" is for uncertain things, and a name is a certain thing. So you must ask not what it would be, Excellency, but what it be....'
'And what is that name?' yelled the woman, making the little elf start. 'Fine, fine, I won't shout anymore, I promise. Don't start crying again. I won't shout, and I won't eat you. What's your name?'
'Yourshkrunsquarkljolnerstrink.'
'Can you repeat that?' asked the human.
'Yes, of course I can,' confirmed the little elf smugly.
The human sighed. 'Repeat,' she said.
'Yorshkrunsquarkljolnerstrink.'
'And do you have a short form of that?'
'I certainly do.'
A pause, and the human breathed in that funny way again. Conversation with them really was torture: Grandma had said so.
'And what is that short form?'
'Yorshkrunsquarkljolnerstri.'
'Of course,' said the human, who suddenly seemed awfully tired. 'I'll call you Yorsh,' she concluded. 'I must have done something terrible in an earlier life, and I'm paying for it now,' she muttered.
At least that meant something, the little elf thought. That was why the human was so mad and stupid: it had taken her eight questions just to find out his name."
--The Last Dragon, by Silvana De Mari
See what I mean?
submitted by ZNZ, age 13, A planet
(August 1, 2010 - 8:50 am)
(August 1, 2010 - 8:50 am)
That seems very good! I'll have to read it.
(August 1, 2010 - 10:20 pm)
Oh, it is very good. And yes, you do have to read it. Or I'll send my Hot Pink Book-Pushing Bunnies (HPBBs) to come and get you. And they are merciless in their efforts to make people read good books. ;D
(August 2, 2010 - 6:03 pm)
MuseBlog has strange effects on the brain. As soon as you mentioned the HPBs, I literally shuddered violently.
In other words, yes, I will definitely read it, because I have suddenly and inexplicably (At first I accidentally said inexplicitly!) developed an enormous fear of them. Although it would be really cool to discover proof of their existence... but I refuse to think along those lines.
(August 3, 2010 - 12:52 am)
Top!
(August 1, 2010 - 10:24 pm)
We have this book. Once I started to read it, but I confess it did not catch my interest at the time. But who knows, it might now!
(August 3, 2010 - 10:48 am)