«Хроники» хороши тем, что есть все варианты на английском, и есть даже есть авторское аудио — всех частей. Слушайте, заслушивайтесь.
В чем минус переводной версии? Да очень большой минус. Хотя, я подумал, да, я читал все это на русском 20 лет назад, впечатление немного стёрлось, но в оригинале все это неимоверно вдохновляет. Вполне может быть, у меня специфическое восприятие (например, очень многое не понравилось, а 50 shades of grade в силу понятности языка, наоборот — показалось вполне достойным чтения). Но вообще, сама тема Амбера и прочих вещей, Хаоса в том числе, в достаточной мере похожа и на мои выдумки (Календарь Хаоса, например). Хотя у меня сумасшествие в данном теме зашкаливает. Но ведь и родство тем возникает не на пустом месте. Наверное, что-то в мире есть. Что-то не здесь. Но — с обязательным отражением на подсознательном уровне.
Мне осталось прочитать одну часть. Что тут можно еще сказать. Самая крутая часть — 5-я, и она и переведена лучше всех. Но перевод правда, оставляет желать лучшего. Язык оригинальный, нелинейный, энергетический.
Her name was Julia, and I’d been damn certain she was dead back on April 30 when it all began. My finding her grisly remains and destroying the doglike creature which I’d thought had killed her were pretty much the way it started. And we had been lovers, which I suppose was how things had really commenced. Long before.
Perhaps I could have trusted her more. Perhaps I should never have taken her on that shadow-walks which led to denials that took her away from me, down dark ways and into the studio of Victor Melman, a nasty occultist I later had to kill-the same Victor Melman who was himself the dupe of Luke and Jasra. But now, perhaps-just barely-I might have been in a position to forgive myself for what I’d thought I’d done, for it seemed that I hadn’t really done it after all. Almost.
That is to say, I learned that I hadn’t been responsible for it while I was in the act of doing it. It was when I drove my knife into the side of the mysterious sorcerer Mask, who had been on my case for some time, that I discovered that Mask was really Julia. My half brother Jurt, who’s been trying to kill me longer than anyone else in the business, snatched her away, and they vanished then, immediately following his transformation into a kind of living Trump.
As I fled the burning, crumbling Keep there at the Citadel of the Four Worlds, a falling timber caused me to dodge to my right, trapping me in a cul-de-sac of crashed masonry and burning beams. A dark metal ball flashed past me then, seeming to grow as it moved. It struck the wall and passed through it, leaving a hole one could dive through-a hint I was not slow in taking. Outside I jumped the moat, using my Logrus extensions to knock aside a section of fence and a score of troops, before I turned back and shouted, «Mandor!»
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