{"id":4399,"date":"2017-12-15T05:00:08","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T13:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/?p=4399"},"modified":"2017-12-10T13:10:08","modified_gmt":"2017-12-10T21:10:08","slug":"mark-reads-the-last-hero-part-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/2017\/12\/mark-reads-the-last-hero-part-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Reads ‘The Last Hero’: Part 7"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the seventh part of The Last Hero<\/i>, the Kite<\/i> flyers take an unexpected detour. Intrigued? Then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for Mark to read Discworld<\/i>.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

Okay, can this entire review just be, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Ditto the last review,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00c2\u00a0 because I FEEL THE SAME WAY. The sense of wonder that Pratchett conveys through the side-trip to the moon is INCREDIBLE. Y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all, there are MOON DRAGONS that LIVE ON THE MOON and eat WEIRD MOON PLANTS and there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s literally nothing about this that I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t love???<\/p>\n

Look, through sheer luck (which is the wizardly way, of course), Ponder is able to figure out how to get the Kite<\/i> to land on the moon, and at that point, I figured that they would be stranded for a lot longer than they were. I actually had to remind myself that this is a much shorter book than I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m used to. Regardless, Pratchett introduces a solution to the crash of the Kite<\/i> while also getting to reveal a huge surprise in the Discworld universe. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s clear and<\/i> meaningful because MOON DRAGONS. Moon dragons, I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get over this<\/i>. Sorry, not sorry, let me yell:<\/p>\n

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They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got longer legs, but they look like they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re made of silver moonlight.<\/li>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153All nose,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d that is literally how they are described.<\/li>\n
They fart fire. THEY FART IT.<\/li>\n
Can we just acknowledge this: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The strange thing was, as Leonard said, that once you stopped sniggering about the whole idea it made a lot of sense. It was so stupid for a flying creature to have a weapon which stopped it dead in midair, for example.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d THIS IS AMAZING.<\/li>\n
The dragons on the moon behave like deer<\/i>. DEER. Just on this point alone, they feel drastically different than swamp dragons.<\/li>\n
(I was curious why none of Kidby\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s illustrations include all the lunar vegetation. I wanted to see what those looked like.)<\/li>\n
The lunar vegetation is like SUPER FOOD for swamp dragons. I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even have a theory what it might be made of it, but the more I think about this, the cooler it is. Did the dragons evolve this way because those who could fart-propel with gas (GET IT) could navigate the low gravity atmosphere better? LET\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S SCIENCE THIS UP.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
I just love it so much, y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all. I also love that Pratchett made a joke about that whole phenomenon that happens to people who see the Earth from space. Leonard suggesed growing forests to spell out the name of countries!!! I HATE THIS AND ALSO CAN\u00e2\u20ac\u2122T STOP LAUGHING AT IT.<\/p>\n
I am also gonna make a guess: the swamp dragons all ignited at once and pushed the moon further along its passage, so much so that you can now observe it from the Disc. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s gotta be what the wizards see at the end of this section, right??? That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s my theory! And in the next section, the Horde\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s gonna end up in palace of the gods. They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re so close, but\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 shit, I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have a theory as to what Evil Harry\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s plan is. Well, two for three is pretty good, so onwards I go.<\/p>\n
MOON DRAGONS.<\/p>\n
https:\/\/youtu.be\/VBccpiMpgCU<\/p>\n
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