Тут недавно, твои хозяева из НАСА написали, что первый человек в космосе - американец. А в играх у них Берлин тоже брали США. Так кто там историю переписывает? И да, Россия - великая страна, с великой историей. А вот у твоей неньки истории нет вообще. Только список военных преступлений. Да, потомок древних укров, согласно вашего учебника истории за 7 класс, появившихся 140 тыс. лет назад. Т.е. на 90 тыс. лет раньше всего остального
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человечества.
Поэтому заляпай п'ятачок, и бегом до военкомату. Время подыхать за неньку
Часть вторая продолжает «уже полюбившийся сериал» в части жизнеописания будней курсанта авиационного училища … Вдумчивого читателя (или слушателя так будет вернее в моем конкретном случае) ждут очередные «залеты бойцов», конфликты в казармах и «описание дубовости» комсостава...
Сам же ГГ (несмотря на весь свой опыт) по прежнему переодически лажает (тупит и буксует) и попадается в примитивнейшие ловушки. И хотя совершенно обратный
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пример (по типу магического всезнайки или суперспеца) был бы еще хуже — но все же порой так и хочется прибавить герою +100 очков к сообразительности))
В остальном же все идет без особых геройств и весьма планово (если не считать очередной интриги в финале книги, как впрочем было и в финале части первой)). Но все же помимо чисто технических нюансов службы (весьма непростой кстати...) и «ожидания экшена» (что порой весьма неоправданно) — большая часть (как я уже говорил) просто отдана простому пересказу «жита и быта» бесправного существа именуемого «курсант»))
Не знаю кому как — но мне данная книга (в формате аудио) дико «зашла»)) Так что если читать только ради чтения (т.е не спеша и не пролистывая страницы), то и Вам (я надеюсь) она так же придется «ко двору»))
Как ни странно, но похоже я открыл (для себя) новый подвид жанра попаданцы... Обычно их все (до этого) можно было сразу (если очень грубо) разделить на «динамично-прогрессорские» (всезнайка-герой-мессия мигом меняющий «привычный ход» истории) и «бытовые-корректирующие» (где ГГ пытается исправить лишь свою личную жизнь, а на все остальное ему в общем-то пофиг)).
И там и там (конечно) возможны отступления, однако в целом (для обоих
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вариантов) характерно наличие какой-то итоговой цели (спасти СССР от развала или просто желание стать гораздо успешнее «чем в прошлый раз»). Но все чаще и чаще мне отчего-то стали попадаться книги (данной «линейки» или к примеру попаданческий цикл Р.Дамирова «Курсант») где все выстроено совсем на других принципах...
Первое что бросается в глаза — это профессия... Вокруг нее и будет «вертеться все остальное». Далее (после выбора любимой темы: «медик-врач», военный, летчик, милиционер, пожарный и пр) автор предлагает ПРОСТО пожить жизнь героя (при всех заданных условиях «периода подселения»).
И да — здесь тоже будут всяческие геройства, свершения и даже местами прогрессорство (куда уж без него), но все это совсем НЕ является искомой целью (что-то исправить, сломать или починить). Нет! Просто — каждая новая книга (часть) это лишь очередная «дверь», для того что-бы еще чуть-чуть пожить жизнь (глазами героя).
И самое забавное, что при данном подходе — уже совсем не обязательны все привычные шаблоны (использовав которые писать-то в принципе трудновато, ибо ГГ уже отработал «попаданческий минимум», да и что к примеру, будет делать генсек с пятью звездами ГСС, после победы над СаСШ? Все! Дальше писать просто нет никакого смысла (т.к дальше будет тупо неинтересно). А тут же ... тут просто поле не паханное)) Так что «только успевай писать продолжение»))
P.S Конкретно в этой части ГГ (вчерашний школьник) «дико щемится» в авиационное училище — несмотря на «куеву тучу» косяков (в виде разбитого самолета, который ему доверили!!!) и неких «тайн дома …» нет не Романовых)) а его личного дома)).
Местами ГГ (несмотря на нехилый багаж и опыт прошлой жизни) откровенно тупит и все никак не может «разрулить конфликт» вырастающий в очередное (казалось бы неприодолимое препятствие) к заветной цели... Но... толи судьба все же милостива к «засланцу», то ли общее количество (хороших и желающих помочь) знакомых (посвященных в некую тайну) все же не переводится))
В общем — книга (несмотря на некоторые шороховатости) была прослушана на «ура», а интрига в финале (части первой) мигом заставило искать продолжение))
shoot Cragsmen.’ Upon seeing her unregistering blink, he sighed and kicked the corpse again. ‘These things! The pirates! Don’t shoot our humans!’
‘I haven’t,’ she replied with a smirk. ‘Yet.’
‘Are you planning to start?’ he asked.
‘If I run out of the other kind, maybe.’
Lenk looked out over the railing and sighed.
No chance of that happening anytime soon.
The crew of the Linkmaster stood at the railings of their vessel, poised over the clanking chain bridges with barely restrained eagerness. And yet, Lenk noted with a narrowing of his eyes, restrained all the same. Their leering, eager faces outnumbered the Riptide’s panicked expressions, their cutlasses shone brighter than any staff or club their victims had managed to cobble together.
And yet, all the same, they remained on their ship, content to throw at the Riptide nothing more than hungry stares and the occasional declaration of what they planned to do with Kataria, no matter what upper assets she might lack. The phrase ‘segregate those weeping dandelions ’twixt a furious hammer’ was shouted more than once.
Any other day, he would have taken the time to ponder the meaning behind that. At that moment, another question consumed his thoughts.
‘What are they waiting for?’
‘Right now?’ Kataria growled, flattened ears suggesting she heard quite clearly their intentions and divined their meaning. ‘Possibly for me to put an arrow in their gullets.’
‘They could easily overrun us,’ he muttered. ‘Why wouldn’t they attack now, while they still have the advantage? ’
‘Scared?’
‘Concerned.’
‘About what?’
Largely, he told himself, that we’re going to die and you’re going to be the cause. His thoughts throbbed painfully in the back of his head. They’re waiting for something, I know it, and when they finally decide to attack, all I’ve got is a lunatic shict to fight them. Where are the others? Where’s Dreadaeleon? Where’s Denaos? Why do I even keep them around? I could do this. I could survive this if they were gone.If she were. .
He felt her stare upon him as surely as if she’d shot him. From the corner of his own eye, he could see hers staring at him. No, he thought, studying. Studying with an unnerving steadiness that exceeded even the unpleasantness of her long-vanished smile.
His skin twitched under her gaze, he shifted, turned a shoulder to her.
Stop staring at me.
She canted her head to one side. ‘What?’
Any response he might have had degenerated into a sudden cry of surprise, one lost amidst countless others, as the deck shifted violently beneath him, sending him hurtling to one knee. He was rendered deaf by the roar of waves as the Riptide rent the sea beneath it with the force of its turn, but even the ocean could not drown out the furious howl from the Riptide’s helm.
‘More men!’ the voice screeched. ‘Get more men to the railing! What are you doing, you thrice-fondled sons of six-legged whores from hell? Get those chains off!’
Not an eye could help turning to the ship’s wheel, and the slim, dark figure behind it. A bald beacon, Captain Argaol’s hairless head shone with sweat as his muscles strained to guide his bride of wood and sails away from her pursuer. Eyes white and wide in furious snarl, he turned a scowl onto Lenk.
‘What in Zamanthras’s name are you blasphemers being paid for?’ He thrust a finger towards the railings. ‘Get. Them. OFF!’
Several bodies pushed past Lenk, hatchets in hand as they rushed the chains biting into the Riptide’s hull. At this, a lilting voice cut across the gap of the sea, sharp as a blade to Lenk’s ears as he pulled himself to his feet.
‘I say, kind Captain, that hardly seems the proper way to address the gentlemen in your employ, does it?’ The helmsman of the Linkmaster taunted with little effort as he guided the black vessel to keep pace with its prey. ‘Truly, sirrah, perhaps you could benefit from a tongue more silver than brass?’
‘Stuff your metaphors in your eyes and burn them, Cragscum!’ Argaol split his roar in twain, hurling the rest of his fury at his crew below. ‘Faster! Work faster, you hairless monkeys! Get the chains off!’
‘Do we help?’ Kataria asked, looking from the chains to Lenk. ‘I mean, aren’t you a monkey?’
‘Monkeys lack a sense of business etiquette,’ Lenk replied. ‘Argaol isn’t the one who pays us.’ His eyes drifted down, along with his frown, to the dull iron fingers peeking over the edge of the Riptide’s hull. ‘Besides, no amount of screaming is going to smash that thing loose.’
Her eyes followed his, and so did her lips, at the sight of the massive metal claw. A ‘mother claw’, some sailors had shrieked upon seeing it: a massive bridge of links, each the size of a housecat, ending in six massive talons that clung to its victim ship like an overconfident drunkard.
‘Were slander but one key upon a ring of victory, good Captain, I dare suggest you’d not be in such delicate circumstance, ’ the Linkmaster’s helmsman called from across the gap. ‘Alas, a lack of manners more frequently begets sharp devices embedded in kidneys. If I might be so brash as to suggest surrender as a means of keeping your internal organs free of metallic intrusion?’
The mother claw had since lived up to its title, resisting any attempt to dislodge it. What swords could be cobbled together had been broken upon it. The sailors that might have been able to dislodge it when the Cragsmen attacked were also the first to be cut down or grievously wounded. All attempts to tear away from its embrace had proved useless.
Not that it seems to stop Argaol from trying, Lenk noted.
‘You might,’ the captain roared to his rival, ‘but only if I might suggest shoving said suggestion square up your-’
The vulgarity was lost in the wooden groan of the Riptide as Argaol pulled the wheel sharply, sending his ship cutting through salt like a scythe. The mother chain wailed in metal panic, going taut and pulling the Linkmaster back alongside its prey. A collective roar of surprise went up from the crew as they were sent sprawling. Lenk’s own was a muffled grunt, as Kataria’s modest weight was hurled against him.
His breath was struck from him and his senses with it. When they returned to him, he was conscious of many things at once: the sticky deck beneath him, the calls of angry gulls above him and the groan of sailors clambering to their feet.
And her.
His breath seeped into his nostrils slowly, carrying with it a new scent that overwhelmed the stench of decay. He tasted her sweat on his tongue, smelled blood that wept from the few scratches on her torso, and felt the warmth of her slick flesh pressed against him, seeping through his stained tunic and into his skin like a contagion.
He opened his eyes and found hers boring into his. He saw his own slack jaw reflected in their green depths, unable to look away.
‘Hardly worthy of praise, Captain,’ the Linkmaster’s helmsman called out, drawing their attentions. ‘Might one suggest even the faintest caress of Lady Reason would e’er do your plight well?’
‘So. .’ Kataria said, screwing up her face in befuddlement, ‘do they all talk like that?’
‘Cragsmen are lunatics,’ he muttered in reply. ‘Their mothers drink ink when they’re still in the womb, so every one of them comes out tattooed and out of his skull.’
‘What? Really?’
‘Khetashe, I don’t know,’ he grunted, shoving her off and clambering to his feet. ‘The point is that, in a few moments when they finally decide to board again, they’re going to run us over, cut us open and shove our intestines up our noses!’ He glanced her over. ‘Well, I mean, they’ll kill me, at least. You, they said they’d like to-’
‘Yeah,’ she snarled, ‘I heard them. But that’s only if they board.’
‘And what makes you think they’re not going to?’ He flailed in the general direction of the mother chain. ‘So long as that thing is there, they can just come over and visit whenever the fancy takes them!’
‘So we get rid of it!’
‘How? Nothing can move it!’
‘Gariath could move it.’
‘Gariath could do a lot of things,’ Lenk snarled, scowling across the deck to the companionway that led to the ship’s hold. ‘He could come out here and help us instead of waiting for us all to die, but since he
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