Concerning dragons.(c)

[Трор]

They would never have survived at all except that their home swamps were isolated and short of predators. Not that a dragon made a good eating, anyway - once you'd taken away the leathery skin and the enormous flight muscles, what was left must have been like biting into a badly-run chemical factory. No wonder dragons were always ill. They relied on permanent stomach trouble for supplies of fuel. Most of their brain power was taken up with controlling the complexities of their digestion, which can distill flame-producing fuels from the most unlikely ingridients. They could even rearrange their internal plumbing overnight to deal with difficult processes. They lived on a chemical knife-edge the whole time. One misplaced hiccup and they were geography. And when it came to choosing nesting sites, the females had all the common sense and mothering instinct of a brick. Vimes wondered why people had been so worried about dragons in the olden days. If there was one in a cave near you, all you had to do was wait until it self-ignited, blew itself up, or died of acute indeigestion.
(c, Terry Pratchett "Guards! Guards!")

Comments

[Уянц]

отставить глумиться над реликтовыми рептилиями!

[Уи]

Ай, первая любовь Я с этой книги начинала

[Трор]

Уянц молчи уже, почти-география!))))

Уи а я вот по-русски не особо проникся много лет назад, сейчас читаю в оригинале и тоже как-то не особо фонтан. Может на контрасте с поздним Пратчеттом?! Но так или иначе прочитаю все!))))

[Уи]

Трор Не знаю, вот меня ведьминский цикл зацепил значительно меньше - понравился, да, но со "Стражей" не сравнить. Сама не могу понять, почему так.

[Трор]

Уи А у меня вот наоборот - Ведьмы любимейшие и перечитываемые много-много раз, я с них окончательно на Пртечетта и подсел!)))

[Уи]

А я и удивляюсь, потому что большинство из тех, чьему вкусу я доверяю, больше любят именно ведьм!

[Трор]

Уи ну вот Стренджер например больше жалуют Стражу, ЕМНИП. )))

[Уи]

Она попеременно

[Трор]

Уи тоже хорошо! ))))