Reseña: Blart: The Boy Who Didn't Want to Save the World Blart: The Boy Who Didn't Want to Save the World

Blart: The Boy Who Didn't Want to Save the World

by

Dominic Barker

319 pages

Published February 1st 2006 by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (first published 2006)

ISBN: 074758074X (ISBN13: 9780747580744)

Edition Language: English

Series: Blart #1

BLURB: Blart is not an average boy. He lives on a pig farm with his grandfather and doesn't care about being heroic or famous or legendary, but he does know that if you want to catch a pig you have to sneak up behind it and take it by surprise. So when a great wizard visits and explains that humankind depends on Blart joining his quest, Blart says no - until the wizard threatens his pigs. Reluctantly, Blart embarks on a very epic quest stuffed with brilliant characters: a feisty princess who likes dragons, a warrior who's a big softie at heart, a disaffected dwarf, and evil Zorab, trapped in a mountain, waiting for his minions to dig him out...

My rating: 2 of 5 stars

Shelves:  adventure-and-action, anti-heroe, fantasy, magia, parodia, read, teen-protagonist, witches-wizards

Blart is a 14-year-old swineherd, coward and selfish and ugly , who is taken by force by a magician to stop a supervillain.

‘My name’s Blart. I look after pigs and I’m with Capablanca who doesn’t.’

I was going to give it 3 stars until it got pretty boring and dumb from the middle almost to the end.

Imagine a parody of The Hobbit in a basically Python-esque way, with a Dudley Dursley at its worst as the protagonist.

‘My name is Capablanca and I am the greatest sorcerer alive today,’ announced the wizard with more than a touch of pride.
‘Do a spell, then,’ demanded Blart, who was not the kind of boy to go around believing old men were wizards just because they said so. ‘Turn this table into a pig.’
‘What?’ exclaimed Capablanca.
‘Are you deaf?’ said Blart.

The Quest, a prophecy, the companions, a warrior , a princess and others. All messed up.

quote: And then, whilst he was looking at the ground and feeling very uncomfortable, he was struck by an idea. This didn’t happen often to Blart and so it shocked him rather like a sudden punch in the face would shock most of us. He staggered to one side with the force of it.

The country is funny, a bit Discworld-like.

quote: Economists from all the other countries of the world had heard of this idea and said that it couldn’t work because people were naturally greedy and selfish and that they liked having more things than everybody else. But Illyrians continued to make it work in complete disregard of economic theory, which was very rude of them in the opinion of the economists. And because they weren’t always competing with each other and trying to make a profit, the Illyrians ended up being friendly and generous to one another and they were the happiest people in the world. It made all the economists mad.

Anyway, I am not going to read the others books after this.

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Como siempre, la curiosidad me llevo a leer esta parodia mientras buscaba un libro con un titulo largo para un reto. NO LO RECOMIENDO. Al principio no es demasiado malo, pero despues se pone muy fome y tonto.

Es una parodia de las novelas de fantasia y aventura, con un muchacho que se lo lleva un mago a la fuerza porque una profecia dijo que es el unico capaz de detener a un supervillano que va a emerger.(se les ahce conocido?) si hasta lo de la mesa es una referencia a Harry Potter con la mesa convertida en cerda (hola MCGonagall). Claro si el protagonista fuera un estupido y analfabeto Dudley Dursley y se lo llevaran en un escenario mas bien de Tolkien , con dragones, trolls, guerreros y ladrones. Todo el camino trata de escaparse, los traiciona y la princesa no es precisamente mejor. Por mas que trataron de imitar el Mundodisco de Terry Pratchet tampoco lo consiguieron. Ug.

Bueno , esta es una serie y no voy a seguir con el resto.

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