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vamos aprender, a moral da história!

Este livro, “Vamos Aprender”, está rotulado com um livro de banda desenhada para crianças o que é uma estratégia de marketing perfeita. Como sabemos existe, sempre, uma criança dentro de cada um de nós; a criança dentro de mim tem a sorte de ter muito espaço para brincar. Pelo que fica dito é um álbum para todos.
Se existir alguém que já não tem uma criança dentro de si estaremos com toda a naturalidade perante um sociopata.

E quanto ao livro? Vale a pena o investimento? As histórias têm moral? O desenhador sabe desenhar? E sem espanto o sim surge com naturalidade.

Gostei das histórias que li.

vamos aprender

vamos aprender

Destaco em primeiro lugar o facto de as palavras usadas serem “normais” e não descerem para o patamar do facilitismo “porque poderá haver crianças que não percebem certos termos”; há muita boa gente que parte de principio de que as crianças ou são estúpidas ou não precisam aprender o gosto pelo aprender. Neste aspecto aplaudo, Aida Teixeira, a autora dos textos.

Em segundo lugar os desenhos estão simplesmente excelentes e podem “quase” ser lidos sem o recurso às palavras. Façam esse exercício, é divertido. Não exagerando nos pormenores, alguns estão lá a personalizar cada prancha, como a joaninha e o caracol com a faixa “FIM”, Carlos Rocha criou pranchas perfeitas.

O melhor exemplo é a primeira prancha do álbum. Aí temos a imagem, o texto e a legendagem por Mário Freitas – poderosa combinação!

Um livro que recomendo vivamente.

twisthorn bellow

Portugal had a director who made a film to be displayed on any radio station. Wales has a writer able to write a book filled with special effects. As a reader of Twisthorn Bellow I had always the fear of being slurped into the book.

Twisthorn Bellow has wonderful characters, strange, intelligent and capable of deceive any great detective such as Sherlock Holmes or even a Sam Vimes.  However any resemblance to an Inspector Clouseau, a Jules Maigret, or a Vidocq is a sort of literary accident.

Twisthorn Bellow is full of music: simply turn any page. The book must have a headphone socket – a fault of the author.

With this book Rhys Hughes reveals the symptoms of a disease that allows him to create stories delusional, crazy, comical; he is a unusual guy I suppose.

link arms with toads!

Whether you are a ghost, a robot or just an apeman, you can always link arms with toads!

rhys hughes

rhys hughes

I finished reading the book “Link Arms With Toads!” and I have nothing to say that has not already been said. I’m afraid to write that is an excellent book, when the book can just be super hyper mega or even absurdly good. Are complicated issues for which I have no answer.

I even drank a gin, followed by a coffee; eat a cake, three meatballs; then finished the brunch with a anise tea to stay with the ideas more clearer, but everything comes to this: the guy knows how to convince that he knows to write.

What makes me pose the question who is Rhys Hughes? Certainly an alien. Remotely akin to a lunatic. Which leads me to a conclusion. Everything he writes can only be understood through the silence of the goblin in charge of managing the parallel lines.

The photo placed on the right is the proof of everything I said – especially that red eye. But you must read the book because I can’t do better and the sun in conjunction with the comet MeMeMeMeMe U doesn’t help.

uma nova história universal da infâmia

Em “Uma Nova História Universal da Infâmia” em português por Rhys Hughes temos o mesmo Rhys Hughes lido em inglês. A tradução de Nuno Cotter está, por isso, excelente.

A edição em português tem uma mais valia: “A Ameaça Imaginária: Rhys Hughes” uma introdução da introdução por Luís Rodrigues e ainda a história “Life and the Plumbline”, incluída apenas na edição limitada original.

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A editora Livros de Areia está de parabéns.

tallest stories

Tallest Stories by Rhys Hughes, and excellently illustrated by David Rix is a good stuff to read. Briefly is a hallucinating reading and nothing boring.

60 linked stories, 60 illustrations, 18 years in the making – this is probably Rhys Hughes’ most important book to date.

Eibonvale Press

Unfortunately isn’t referred the amount of drink and food spend in the production of the book. Can I forgive the author? I think not. But as “Laura was running. She ran. She ran throught the forest. Throught the forest she ran. Laura ran.” I forgive him – not a bad guy after all, despite only desired to be friend of mermaids. A fetishistic for scales!

tallest stories

tallest stories

The 60 story are ranged from 1993 (Learning to Fly) to 2009 (Gaspar Jangle’s Seance). One of the stories, Learning To Fall, included in the book, in the words of Rhys Hughes “was originally one of my very first stories. I wrote a version of this story when I was 10 years old, then lost it, so when I was 28 I decided to rewrite it…”.

Not the best book by Rhys Hughes because it’s impossible to compare any book of Rhys Hughes to another book of Rhys Hughes. Therefore I can only conclude that it’s the best book of Rhys Hughes; confused? Does this solve? “Laura was running. She ran. She ran throught the forest. Throught the forest she ran. Laura ran.” If it does not solve I feel sorry, of course I don’t, but it is politically correct to have some pity, read the book will be the only solution.

In 60 stories there are some 60 stories that I’m obligated to emphasize. For easy browsing the list the book has an index.

I think that’s all I have to say about the book. Liked. Loved. Loved. “Laura ran.

On the purchase of the book I received also this – oh yes!

prendas

two notebooks

a sereia de curitiba

It was very pleasant reading Rhys Hughes in Portuguese. The three first stories that comprise the book can be read in the ebook “The Mermaid Variations”; the remaining stories were a world exclusive for the Portuguese edition of “A Sereia de Curitiba” by the publisher Livros de Areia.

a sereia de curitiba

a sereia de curitiba

The translation by Safaa Dib is tasteful. The games that Rhys Hughes do with the words are not lost in the translation. In addition to this we have the drawings of Paulo Barros.

“A Sereia de Curitiba” is an edition of immense quality and it does not disappoint those who already like the author, and certainly will create more followers for those wishing to venture diving in the seas of Rhys Hughes – mermaids not included!

link arms with toads! com fotos

Link Arms With Toads! por Rhys Hughes. É possível ver na foto o estado em que mantenho a minha mesa de cabeceira – sempre com paletes de livros.

Os sapos são da minha filha. A segurar no livro parcialmente escondida vemos o seu cabelo preto.

the mermaid variations

The adventures of an exceptional mermaid as she travels from a carnival in tropical Brazil to a country where it never stops raining, Wales; and from there to the moon, where the lunar mermaids are the wrong way around. A magical mystical miniature trilogy for adults who still believe in whimsy, romance and fables!

Rhys Hughes>

The Mermaid Variations é outro ebook por Rhys Hughes que se lê de uma penada.

flash in the pantheon

Flash in the pantheon é uma leitura super divertida, com histórias malucas, esquisitas, surrealistas, sem nexo, anexadas, de alguém que se diverte com as palavras como ninguém.

Adorei especialmente:

  • Goblin Sunrise
  • Primate Suspect
  • The Peat Fire
  • Floodtide
  • Diplomatic Immunity
  • e algumas, muitas outras

Um grande maluco este Rhys Hughes.